Should the suffragettes be pardoned for their crimes?

Tori Simpson Kurz They did much more for society than just get the right to vote. I say pardon them. They ignited change and a movement with benefits for not just women but all of society. There are cultures in this day and age that still keep women on this level…

Ginette Hardwick The suffragettes only resorted to lawbreaking after years of not getting anywhere by using peaceful means. It wasn’t until they did the things for which they were arrested that the establishment took any notice

Barbara Ayres I think not. Surely leaving history as it is shows just how difficult it was, and is there to learn from

@ DufferRoy No. At the time, what many women were doing to further their cause was illegal. History cannot be rewritten because of changes in either attitude or law at a later date. The law may have been ill advised but it was the law, and they broke it

@ Diane_ toller The laws were different then and it is time they were pardoned. It happened 100 years ago. Alan Turing was pardoned, eventually

@ wareham_ andrew They are dead – what do they care for pardons and apologies? PC taken to the nth degree

@ woodstockcatman I would say yes as these women certainly deserve to be remembered as the heroes they were but it is very difficult to try to justify this now by looking back & judging those times by 2018 standards

@ CraigMatthews9 I don’t think they would be bothered by receiving a pardon from a system and government that oppressed and ignored them for so many years

@ LouiseCulmer1 No. They were extremely violent. They smashed windows, slashed paintings, set fire to letters, and made numerous arson attempts. They planted a bomb in Westminster Abbey. A lot of people, including people who supported female suffrage, were shocked by their antics