 That year, Flora also became a paid organiser at the WSPU headquarters and hired a boat so that she could approach the Palace of Westminster from the River Thames to harangue the members of parliament sitting on the riverside terrace.When Mary Phillips, who had worked in Glasgow WSPU, was released from prison after serving the longest (3 month) sentence she was welcomed by Flora Drummond, with bagpipes and other suffragettes who posed in tartan  for a picture under the slogan "Ye Mauna Tramp on the Scotch Thistle Laddie".The Scottish suffragettes present compared their struggle to the campaign of William Wallace.