The problem with people comparing JSO to the Suffragettes is that the Suffragettes didn’t achieve their aims themselves.
To achieve change in the UK (and indeed any democracy) you need to win the hearts and minds of the public and have a properly good political lobbying arm. Women’s suffrage was actually set back by the Suffragette movement at the time, the hard yards were done by the Suffragist movement under Millicent Fawcett who engaged in exactly that lobbying and campaigning, and the more extreme the Suffragettes got the harder they found it. In the end it took the combined forces of the Suffragists and the Great War to seal the deal.
So being like the Suffragettes will just put your movement back. History tells us as much.
To achieve change in the UK (and indeed any democracy) you need to win the hearts and minds of the public and have a properly good political lobbying arm. Women’s suffrage was actually set back by the Suffragette movement at the time, the hard yards were done by the Suffragist movement under Millicent Fawcett who engaged in exactly that lobbying and campaigning, and the more extreme the Suffragettes got the harder they found it. In the end it took the combined forces of the Suffragists and the Great War to seal the deal.
So being like the Suffragettes will just put your movement back. History tells us as much.