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Originally Posted by Ray Allan
Old Winnie was no saint in the First World War either, being responsible for the Lusitania sinking and Gallipoli disaster. A closet jew-tool even then. And his mother was part jew, too.
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Hidden in the system memory vault despite all the recent suffragette anniversaries of late. This snippet documenting the public thrashing of the depraved Churchill it could not happened to a more apt specimen. Churchill as selfless hero is the same trope as Guevara the brave that bastard was killer of children and even more damaging for his iconic edgy image a Prison Chief....a fucking screw? lowest of the low. I digress the details on Churchill the filthy swine:
It was over in a flash but it caused a sensation around the country a century ago when suffragette
Theresa Garnett hit Winston Churchill with a riding whip at Bristol Temple Meads.
The then Cabinet minister had just stepped off a train to give a talk to the Anchor Society at the Colston Hall when Miss Garnett brandished the whip and repeatedly
struck him, screaming: "Take that in the name of the insulted women of England".
She was arrested for assault but because Churchill
did not want to appear in court, he did not press charges and Miss Garnett ended up with a one-month prison sentence for disturbing the peace.
She was sent to Horfield prison, was force fed when
she refused to eat and then set fire to her cell in protest.
To mark the 100th anniversary of the attack – a little early as it actually happened on November 15 – members of Bristol Radical History Group re-enacted the incident at the station.
Surprised rail passengers watched as Mel Plumer, playing Miss Garnett, launched herself at Roger Wilson (Churchill) as he walked along with Zoey Exley, who was appearing as Churchill's wife Clementine.
The arrests were carried out by Steve Mills, Ian Wright and Dik Collins, with everyone dressed in the costume of the day.
Scriptwriter and student, 17-year-old Anny Cullum, said: "We recreated a snapshot in time."
Miss Cullum later joined Dawn Dyer, of Bristol Central Library, at the station's GWRSA Social Club to look at the successes and shortfalls of the suffragette movement and the effect it had upon early 20th century Britain.
Miss Garnett, who lived in York Place, Clifton, was a member of the Women's Social and Political Union and her attack scandalised Edwardian society as the struggle for equal voting rights hit the headlines.
After burning her cell, Miss Garnett was made to spend the rest of her sentence in solitary confinement in a punishment cell but after she was found unconscious, completed her sentence in hospital.
Will Simpson, of the Bristol Radical History Group, said it had organised a number of events since 2006, including lectures, social events and other historical reenactments, all aimed at uncovering the history of the West Country.
He said:
"We want to open up history and make it more accessible. By carrying out re-enactments like this, we let people know about incidents they may know nothing about but which happened in Bristol or the surrounding area."
Read more at
http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/suffrag...m7HOHTOZmiw.99