You're wrong, Harriet Harman – Conservatives make better
feminists  Conservative feminism is about boosting women to
their full potential – Labour just patronises them with state
protection   • Jump to comments () Emmeline Pankhurst 'Emmeline
Pankhurst’s instincts were more Conservative than socialist.'
Photograph: Time Life Pictures/Getty Images  Harriet Harman has
decreed that you cannot be a feminist and a Conservative. But,
sisters, we will not take this lying down with our blue
rosettes. She is wrong both historically and politically.
Indeed, this statement unequivocally demonstrates her
abandonment of feminism. She has decided to sacrifice it at the
altar of socialism by attacking Conservative women. She is too
much of an old hand to truly believe this. She is deliberately
using her feminist credentials to launch an attack that she
doesn't believe in, but which polishes her reputation as the
hard woman of Labour.  The truth is socialists came rather late
to the feminist movement. Anyone who saw the film