Here are the female members of parliament dressed in the sashes of the Suffragettes. Four people were killed by the campaigns of the Suffragettes, and 24 others were injured. The contemporary press called them "Terrorists"

Shortly after this photograph was taken, these ladies took off their sashes and all apart from a few voted in the HofC for #PalestineAction to be a proscribed terrorist organisation.

No one has died from excessive graffiti

@Geri neo-liberal centrist types love to cosplay as left wing progressive social movements

but only decades after the issue is settled 😠

a decade or two from now there will be a picture like that of the same kinds of people standing with trans people pretending like they gave a damn about our rights while the same kinds of people were passing laws to kick us out of toilets and pretending trans kids don't exist naturally and we're brainwashing them

the Guardian didn't support the Suffragettes, it let people from both sides contribute articles and stayed neutral, same as they're doing with trans people now. and people call it a left wing paper πŸ™„

@normjess word! Spot on. Vaguely cynical but fucking right

@Geri I've been called worse 😜

the term 'battle axe' meaning an overbearing woman comes from a Suffragette (who had an hatchet)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle-axe_(woman)

one of them tried to kill Winston Churchill with a weapon too, I think. helped scare the UK establishment/political class into reaching for some sort of compromise

only articles I can find are about one drowning him out by ringing a cowbell

imagine if someone cowbelled Starmer and spared us some of the BS πŸ””πŸ˜œ

Battle-axe (woman) - Wikipedia

@normjess I have visions of the bell woman ..unclean unclean unclean

Pffft. πŸ˜† πŸ˜†

@Geri @normjess
horsewhipping winston churchill through bristol central train station isn't quite the same as trying to kill him with a weapon but i'm very happy to be reminded of it 😸

theresa garnett is the legend in question if you want to look her up ✊

@normjess @Geri I'm not sure if they tried to kill Churchill but they definitely tried to kill Prime Minister H. H. Asquith by throwing an axe at him.