Harman changes history!
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Shades of 1984. I wonder when we'll start seeing her face vanishing from photographs and newsreels from the era.....
Margaret Thatcher airbrushed from Harriet Harman's history of women in politics
Harriet Harman has been accused of airbrushing Baroness Thatcher from an official government document saluting the role of women in politics in the last 100 years.
The paper, Women in Power: Milestones, listed 28 of the most significant events between 1907 and 2008 involving women on the political stage.
The milestones included the election of the first female Head of Government – Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka in 1960 and Britain's first woman councillor Reina Emily Lawrence in 1907.
The document, produced by the Equality Office which is run by Miss Harman, the deputy leader of the Labour Party, highlights the role of Nancy Astor who was the first woman to take her seat in parliament in 1919, the election of Dianne Abbott the first black woman MP in 1987, and victory in 1999 of Neena Gill the UK’s first Asian female MEP.
But there is no mention of Lady Thatcher becoming the first female leader of a British political party when she replaced Edward Heath in 1975, or the fact that she was the longest serving prime minister in the 20th century, and won three general election victories.
The only reference to her is: “1979: UK’s first woman Prime Minister.” But her name is pointedly omitted. By contrast Shreela Flather is mentioned twice as the first Asian woman councillor and first Asian woman peer. Britain’s first black woman mayor Lydia Simmons is also given a name check.
Lady Thatcher’s office declined to comment but a friend of the former Prime Minister said: “Miss Harman cannot bear the fact it was the Conservatives who elected the first woman leader back in 1975 long before anyone had even heard of positive discrimination and all women shortlists.
"Margaret got there on ability and went on to become one of the great Prime Ministers because of what she stood for not because she wore skirts. We also elected the first Jewish leader in Michael Howard but I imagine that will be airbrushed too when Harman's Equality Office doew an ethnic history of political parties.”
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Margaret Thatcher airbrushed from Harriet Harman's history of women in politics
Harriet Harman has been accused of airbrushing Baroness Thatcher from an official government document saluting the role of women in politics in the last 100 years.
The paper, Women in Power: Milestones, listed 28 of the most significant events between 1907 and 2008 involving women on the political stage.
The milestones included the election of the first female Head of Government – Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka in 1960 and Britain's first woman councillor Reina Emily Lawrence in 1907.
The document, produced by the Equality Office which is run by Miss Harman, the deputy leader of the Labour Party, highlights the role of Nancy Astor who was the first woman to take her seat in parliament in 1919, the election of Dianne Abbott the first black woman MP in 1987, and victory in 1999 of Neena Gill the UK’s first Asian female MEP.
But there is no mention of Lady Thatcher becoming the first female leader of a British political party when she replaced Edward Heath in 1975, or the fact that she was the longest serving prime minister in the 20th century, and won three general election victories.
The only reference to her is: “1979: UK’s first woman Prime Minister.” But her name is pointedly omitted. By contrast Shreela Flather is mentioned twice as the first Asian woman councillor and first Asian woman peer. Britain’s first black woman mayor Lydia Simmons is also given a name check.
Lady Thatcher’s office declined to comment but a friend of the former Prime Minister said: “Miss Harman cannot bear the fact it was the Conservatives who elected the first woman leader back in 1975 long before anyone had even heard of positive discrimination and all women shortlists.
"Margaret got there on ability and went on to become one of the great Prime Ministers because of what she stood for not because she wore skirts. We also elected the first Jewish leader in Michael Howard but I imagine that will be airbrushed too when Harman's Equality Office doew an ethnic history of political parties.”
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FourWheelDrift said:
Harman is an mental, malicious, ignorant, conniving, meddling cow who deserves everything she is due at the next general election, I for one will be raising a toast to her tears on the hustings next year.
I couldn't put it much better - but there was a lack of the really strong words due to her...Nothing this government does really surprises me anymore. They just become more and more pathetic, eaten up by their own bitterness.
How you can choose to completely ignore Thatcher's achievements with regards to women in politics, whatever your own political beliefs and maintain you are of sound mind is beyond me.
How you can choose to completely ignore Thatcher's achievements with regards to women in politics, whatever your own political beliefs and maintain you are of sound mind is beyond me.
If any of you have a copy, or ge a chance to look at Further Letters of Henry Root, check out the letter he wrote to Harman back in 1979 when she was an apprentice feminist f
kwit.
The letter is just brilliant - suggesting she leave politics and thinking to men and concentrate on being pretty. He even enclosed a £1 note for her to buy herself something pretty!
I'll try to borrow it and scan it next week.
kwit.The letter is just brilliant - suggesting she leave politics and thinking to men and concentrate on being pretty. He even enclosed a £1 note for her to buy herself something pretty!
I'll try to borrow it and scan it next week.
johnfm said:
If any of you have a copy, or ge a chance to look at Further Letters of Henry Root, check out the letter he wrote to Harman back in 1979 when she was an apprentice feminist fkwit.
The letter is just brilliant - suggesting she leave politics and thinking to men and concentrate on being pretty. He even enclosed a £1 note for her to buy herself something pretty!
I'll try to borrow it and scan it next week.
Quick Google found this:kwit.The letter is just brilliant - suggesting she leave politics and thinking to men and concentrate on being pretty. He even enclosed a £1 note for her to buy herself something pretty!
I'll try to borrow it and scan it next week.
Writing to Harriet Harman, then of “The National Council for so-called Civil Liberties”, he began: “I saw you on television the other night… Why should an attractive lass like you want to confuse her pretty little head with complicated matters of politics, jurisprudence, sociology and the so-called rights of man? Leave such considerations to us men, that’s my advice to you. A pretty girl like you should have settled down by now with a husband and a couple of kiddies.” If she must work, he continued, she should consider a career such as “that of model, actress, ballroom dancing instructor or newsreader”, before enclosing a pound for her to buy a pretty dress and urging the future MP to get in touch with “my friend Lord Delfont”.
FourWheelDrift said:
Harman is an mental, malicious, ignorant, conniving, meddling cow who deserves everything she is due at the next general election, I for one will be raising a toast to her tears on the hustings next year.
I think the poor thing is really rather sad. Mad, bad and dangerous too, but rather sad. Puggit said:
johnfm said:
If any of you have a copy, or ge a chance to look at Further Letters of Henry Root, check out the letter he wrote to Harman back in 1979 when she was an apprentice feminist fkwit.
The letter is just brilliant - suggesting she leave politics and thinking to men and concentrate on being pretty. He even enclosed a £1 note for her to buy herself something pretty!
I'll try to borrow it and scan it next week.
Quick Google found this:kwit.The letter is just brilliant - suggesting she leave politics and thinking to men and concentrate on being pretty. He even enclosed a £1 note for her to buy herself something pretty!
I'll try to borrow it and scan it next week.
Writing to Harriet Harman, then of “The National Council for so-called Civil Liberties”, he began: “I saw you on television the other night… Why should an attractive lass like you want to confuse her pretty little head with complicated matters of politics, jurisprudence, sociology and the so-called rights of man? Leave such considerations to us men, that’s my advice to you. A pretty girl like you should have settled down by now with a husband and a couple of kiddies.” If she must work, he continued, she should consider a career such as “that of model, actress, ballroom dancing instructor or newsreader”, before enclosing a pound for her to buy a pretty dress and urging the future MP to get in touch with “my friend Lord Delfont”.
It would be fun to send her a fresh copy of it!
I'll see if I can get hold of an original - we can make it a PH mission just to piss her off!
johnfm said:
Puggit said:
johnfm said:
If any of you have a copy, or ge a chance to look at Further Letters of Henry Root, check out the letter he wrote to Harman back in 1979 when she was an apprentice feminist fkwit.
The letter is just brilliant - suggesting she leave politics and thinking to men and concentrate on being pretty. He even enclosed a £1 note for her to buy herself something pretty!
I'll try to borrow it and scan it next week.
Quick Google found this:kwit.The letter is just brilliant - suggesting she leave politics and thinking to men and concentrate on being pretty. He even enclosed a £1 note for her to buy herself something pretty!
I'll try to borrow it and scan it next week.
Writing to Harriet Harman, then of “The National Council for so-called Civil Liberties”, he began: “I saw you on television the other night… Why should an attractive lass like you want to confuse her pretty little head with complicated matters of politics, jurisprudence, sociology and the so-called rights of man? Leave such considerations to us men, that’s my advice to you. A pretty girl like you should have settled down by now with a husband and a couple of kiddies.” If she must work, he continued, she should consider a career such as “that of model, actress, ballroom dancing instructor or newsreader”, before enclosing a pound for her to buy a pretty dress and urging the future MP to get in touch with “my friend Lord Delfont”.
It would be fun to send her a fresh copy of it!
I'll see if I can get hold of an original - we can make it a PH mission just to piss her off!
Edited by whitechief on Tuesday 15th September 22:25
FourWheelDrift said:
Harman is an mental, malicious, ignorant, conniving, meddling cow who deserves everything she is due at the next general election, I for one will be raising a toast to her tears on the hustings next year.
This deserves another quote.She is a hatefull, useless, bitter, petty, little woman. To stand out this way in the crowd she has chosen will probably be her crowning achievement. How apt.
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