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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2016 16:38:48 GMT
Margaret Thatcher would have followed a career in law instead of politics.
There's no way Labour would have won every general election in the past. That's like assuming people would have voted the same way had a different electoral system been in operation. Since the 1990s men have become more Tory than women anyway.
Barbara Castle oversaw the introduction of breathalyser and 70mph speed limits. There is a probability we'd have been less safe but we might have been spared some of the more tiresome aspects of health and safety constraints and nannyism. [takes cover]
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Post by Foggy on Jun 15, 2016 22:09:19 GMT
Margaret Thatcher would have followed a career in law instead of politics. [...] Barbara Castle oversaw the introduction of breathalyser and 70mph speed limits. Nothing in the thread title suggests this is positing a scenario in which women never won the right to stand for election. |
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Post by neilm on Jun 16, 2016 22:26:01 GMT
Are the two different? I know we had women running municipally but for a national post?
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Post by neilm on Jun 16, 2016 22:34:45 GMT
Margaret Thatcher would have followed a career in law instead of politics. Perhaps chemistry? When I was at university, we had periodic drive pasts of her house in Colchester (perhaps @skybluecolu was on one?). My chemist grandmother* and mother were huge fans of Maggie because she was a chemist and the Tory female lawyers I know are more impressed that she was a chemist than because she did the BVC (or whatever it was) but didn't practice. She was also quite open about being a chemist and the impact that had on being education secretary. *the root of my dislike of Julian Huppert |
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Post by Merseymike on Jun 17, 2016 13:40:29 GMT
Margaret Thatcher would have followed a career in law instead of politics. Perhaps chemistry? When I was at university, we had periodic drive pasts of her house in Colchester (perhaps @skybluecolu was on one?). My chemist grandmother* and mother were huge fans of Maggie because she was a chemist and the Tory female lawyers I know are more impressed that she was a chemist than because she did the BVC (or whatever it was) but didn't practice. She was also quite open about being a chemist and the impact that had on being education secretary. *the root of my dislike of Julian Huppert Margaret Becket was a metallurgist and my former MP Claire Curtis-Thomas a mechanical engineer. Apparently she fixed a lift in the House of Commons once as she used to keep a toolkit in her office. |
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Post by john07 on Jul 3, 2016 1:05:26 GMT
Margaret Thatcher would have followed a career in law instead of politics. Perhaps chemistry? When I was at university, we had periodic drive pasts of her house in Colchester (perhaps @skybluecolu was on one?). My chemist grandmother* and mother were huge fans of Maggie because she was a chemist and the Tory female lawyers I know are more impressed that she was a chemist than because she did the BVC (or whatever it was) but didn't practice. She was also quite open about being a chemist and the impact that had on being education secretary. Didn't she have a part in the invention of 'Mr Whippy' ice cream. Or was that Christine Keeler? |
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