Claire Fox Quotes
I am standing in solidarity with decent Remain voters who respected the rules and accepted the result and are as appalled by Parliament's undemocratic antics as the most ardent Brexiteer.
Fox, Claire. "Why I am standing for the Brexit Party." spiked, 23 Apr. 2019.
The editorial was in support of women’s suffrage—the right to vote which at the time women did not have in Britain. Women were very active in protests and demonstrations. Tactics sometimes involved civil disobedience and chaining themselves to public buildings. It was the civil disobedience and disruptions that the newspaper referred to as the “follies and excesses.” In retrospect today, it is amazing how threatened the society felt and how they reacted to the “threat” of females voting. It does however give us a perspective on those contemporary societies which restrict women’s voting rights.
The Nazis who numbered as many as 20,000 at the peak would hold rallies describing them as American patriotic rallies. Many people would unwittingly swell the halls. Madison Square Garden was then the largest indoor facility in New York. The press revealed the Nazi deception and uncovered many of the other Nazi activities in America, which brought Nazi attacks on the press—see {625042}.
Resigning from the Greek parliament:
In the early 1990's Canadians in large numbers had a tax revolt and many refused to pay their OAT taxes.
This phrase was also to be used over 100 years later by Malcolm X. See {624101} and {38291}.
Claire Regina Fox, Baroness Fox of Buckley is a British writer, journalist, lecturer and politician and sits in the House of Lords as a life peer. She is the director and founder of the right-wing think tank Institute of Ideas.
