AS a member of the Women’s and Gender Equality Committee in the European Parliament and contributor to women’s group activities in the region, I am horrified at the proposal to allow prisoners to vote.
I see it as a direct insult to women who worked so hard to get the vote at the beginning of the last century – particularly their achievements in the Great War.
Isn’t it ironic that it was spawned by the European Court of Human Rights. We must learn somehow to run our own country again.
Godfrey Bloom, UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire
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