Suffragettes Persuasive Speech

Suffragettes like Emmeline Pankhurst, Millicent Fawcett and Emily Davison fought for the rights that exist for women in the UK today. Primarily our right to vote. Our right to democracy. But this right is slowly been salami sliced away by the EU, they’re slicing away at everything these great women fought for. We cannot control our own laws, our own boarders and are subservient to an unelectable, unaccountable, male dominated European Commission.
The Remain campaign is getting desperate, they keep using the adage that our rights will be in jeopardy if we leave the EU. However this is wrong, they simply do not know their history. The United Kingdom has a record for being ahead of the time with women’s rights; before we even joined the EU this country had passed the Abortion Act, the Divorce Reform Act and the Equal Pay Act. Even after we joined the EU this country continued to be committed to advancing women’s rights passing the Sex Discrimination Act, the Employment Protection Act and the Domestic Violence Act. This country is perfectly capable of advocating women’s rights as it has done since the suffragettes without the help from overpaid Eurocrats.
The European Union cannot talk about equality because even its commission is not equal. Only 9 out of the 28 EU commissioners are
There, not only did men outnumber women 58 to 42 per cent across all jobs but female managers earned a monthly average of £7,736 less than male colleagues holding the same positions. How did the European Central Bank attempt to excuse this? By saying it was due to a ‘larger proportion of male staff members in executive positions at the start of the establishment, some 15 years ago, and the subsequent impact of career progression’. In other words they’ve made no effort in the last 15 years to rectify the gender inequity amongst their