NEXT year the men and women of Britain will vote in a general election. Regarding the women of Britain at the 1999 Labour Party Conference Tony Blair informed delegates; “To us today, it almost defies believe that people had to die to win votes for women". But why did it need such a fight? Because Tory MPs stood up in the House of Commons and said; “Voting is a man’s business”.
Votes for women under the 1918 Representation of the Peoples Act giving the vote to women over 30 was enacted under a Liberal Government.
The voting age for women became equal with men in 1928 under PM Stanley Baldwin’s Conservative Government.
Any politician that knows little of his countries social history should never be considered for president of the EU. Or maybe they should.
J E PLUMTREE Brook Meadow Wroughton
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