B&B owner hangs sign saying women not welcome because he 'thinks they are inferior'

Mr Hart said he hung the sign because he doesn't like women
John Dixon Hart
Martin Coulter21 December 2017

The owner of a guest house hung a sign saying "Women Are Not Welcome" because he considers them "irritating" and inferior to men.

John Dixon Hart, 53, who was previously fined £7,000 for claiming the Beverley Guest House in Yorkshire was a four star hotel, posted the sign earlier this week saying: "I can do what I like."

Mr Hart says he only put the "Not Welcome" sign up because a "Women Are Banned" notice would have been against the law.

He told the Standard he believed women were "taking over" the UK by "usurping men's position in society", doing things such as "working in shops" and "becoming bishops".

"I mean, just look at the Bishop of Hull - a woman - that's just crazy...It is a sin against God, and just logically wrong.

"The world we have created was forged by hundreds and thousands of years of men - yes, men - going off to war and doing everything women couldn't.

"And now they are taking over...they are usurping men's position in society and someone has really got to do something."

"If we keep letting women take our jobs, they will stop having children. And then who will have all the babies?"

Mr Hart also has political ambitions, saying he hopes to stand as a Conservative parliamentary candidate for Beverley and Holderness if he can convince the party to ditch incumbent Graham Stuart.

When asked if he considers it a good thing that British society had progressed to the point of treating women as equal to men before the law, Mr Hart said: "The law is an ass."

"The idea of being treated equally before the law is a nonsense. There is no such thing as equality."

The Standard asked Mr Hart, who is married with two children, if he was going to raise his young daughter to fall in line with his beliefs.

He responded: "I would never interfere in my daughter's decisions, it is entirely up to her to choose her own path."

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