Votes for Women

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             The clause above these pictures is very clever as is uses past tense, is says, "What a Man may have been, and yet not lose the vote. The past tense is used very cleverly here because it is hardly noticeable and the first thought would be that these men were allowed to vote at the present time. The truth was that convicts were not allowed to vote at all. This campaign poster justifies the Suffragette activities as is clearly points out that Women were aggravated. There were aggravated in the sense that Women were perfectly capable of doing jobs as good as or even better than men and carry large responsibilities but still had no say in how their country should be run and who it should be run by. .
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             Overall we can see that this poster is very selective and very biased but justifies their actions. They have also exaggerated on many points such as the jobs women did. However, this poster clearly proved the point it set out to do; women were just as capable as men in many areas but still weren't given the same rights as them, in this case, the vote. .
             Question 2: Does source B support the evidence of Source C about the .
             Suffragette Campaign? Explain your answer.
             Source B an extract from a speech by Lloyd George during the debate on the bill to grant female suffrage in May 1913. Lloyd George is highlighting the ineffectiveness of the suffrage movement. He criticizes suffrage movement of blackmailing and intimidating men into giving them the vote. He also uses the line, "what he would gladly give otherwise" to try and protect the image of parliament and also try to make suffrage movement look unjust. This clever tactic works very well as it seems that government were in favour of the votes for women campaign. However, the truth is that the government weren't very likely to give women the right to vote even if they had stopped the violent campaigning. I also know that Lloyd George would have been strongly against the suffrage campaign and would do whatever he could to make sure they failed to get the vote as the Suffragettes had burnt down his house only a little while before he made this speech.