Right after the suggestion that workhouses had their merits.
Not really. Posting links without comment and then not really engaging further is really bloody annoying. (This time the poster did post a comment but an oblique saying in Yoruba isn't exactly helpful.)
TBF I'd favour jailing some civil servants for their anti-social behaviour - those at the top of the Treasury, Simon Case, Gus O'Donnell, etc - but I suspect for very different reasons
Policy temporarily on hold over fears that hangmen will be classified as civil servants and will swell their ranks.
fairly accurate tbf
This from a woman who once hacked an MP's website.
They're the Suffragette movement colours, lots of 'GC' accounts have adopted this on twitter. But actually, a lot of them, when you start to look at their wider postings, have some very limited or 'odd' feminist positions (on abortion rights, etc) and seem to singlely consider being anti-trans/trans-critical as the most important consideration for womens rights. Many are simply conservative and right-wing on many other things.
Yeah it's the TERF and TERF-adjacent attempt to reclaim the suffragette colours. See also the dinosaur emoji for some reason.
Hmmm. So would no doubt be frothing that I didn't recognise the Suffragette colours. (Which tbf is a bit shit of me).
mis appropriation of the Suffragette colours
Many were, and hideously so, but you're seriously over-generalising. Sylvia Pankhurst and the Women's Dreadnought side of the movement (later Workers' Dreadnought then Communist Party BSTI) were further "left" than pretty much every political organisation or movement since (outside of revolutionary anarchists, left and libertarian communists).
Badenoch, like much of the new right, lives in a conspiracist mindset. They observe progressive social change on race, gender, rights etc and because this has affected most classes and occupations (pretty much the definition of progressive social change) they jump to the conclusion that this is a deliberate, nefarious process ( sometimes using the often anti-Semitic phrase “cultural Marxism”) Hence, moves to align governments and businesses with the prevailing social mores of the majority of those who work in them are signs of “leftist infiltration” and attempted “mind control”. ( Rather than the usual capitalist attempts to maximise participants in the economy, optimise human resource use and maximise profits)
Sylvia was an interesting character. Fell out with her mum and sister and ended up moving to Ethiopia and becoming an honorary citizen.
She was also pals with Louise Michel and Peter Kropotkin. Also, East London Fed of the WSPU (Women's/Workers' Dreadnought, which became the Workers' Socialist Federation and later CP-BSTI) was heavily into organising working class women and ran free maternity care in the area. Thousands would turn up for her street meetings. The WSF were proper good eggs, unlike her Tory mam and the whole white feather brigade.
tbf you're cherry-picking a bit there to find someone you like. The general statement made about the specific organisation those colours represent is accurate enough. The WSPU as run by Sylvia's mum and sister was all the things IAF says it was. It specifically did not advocate for universal suffrage, for example. It wanted poor men and women kept off the electoral register.
