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4 October 2017

Ladies! Iain Duncan Smith is extremely worried about this country’s wife shortage

Can you please marry a dysfunctional, porn-addicted man already? 

By Glosswitch

Women! Have you noticed the crisis of masculinity that’s been going on since, ooh, the beginning of time? All around us, men are drinking, fighting, raping and murdering. Over 80 per cent of violent crime is committed by men, rising to a staggering 99 per cent for sexual assaults.

Whatever can we do to stop it? Thankfully, Iain Duncan Smith just has the answer. In a speech given at a fringe event at the Conservative party conference, IDS proposes that all the single ladies offer themselves up as wives.

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