The State of Britain - Hands, Feet, Chickens, Roll Over & (Cream)

100 years ago some women in Britain were enjoying (as Mrs. Pankhurst said) the fight for the parliamentary vote.
When the other war came, Mrs. Humphry Ward opposed the proposed transfer of power from one sex to the other (letter in The Times 23 May 1917). She believed it would result in the collapse of the British Empire and bring women into conflict with men - the final outcome of which was in doubt.
With the collapse of the British Empire, the boot of power is on the other foot globally and in the hands of women domestically.
Chickens are coming home to roost.
Following the Second World War these (mostly) took the form of young men from the Indian sub-Continent and the Caribbean coming to these islands.
In May 1979 Mrs. Thatcher was elected to control the controls. Specifically, to end the concession to men through marriage.
This was vigorously opposed by the National Council for Civil Liberties whose General Secretary, Patricia Hewitt (Minister for Women in the last Government), ascribed her success as inevitable as women winning the right to vote and described it as her "most satisfying achievement".
Yesterday the Director of Liberty, as the NCCL is now called, Shami Chakrabarti, won a debate organised by BBC Radio 4's "Woman's Hour". She had proposed Mrs. Pankhurst as the woman who had done most for women in politics.
Back in 1979 I had thought there's not much point in men having the vote.
There can be no doubt about the outcome if native British men roll over.
(The cream are wasted in Afghanistan. [And were in France and Belgium.])