A GROUP of Bridgwater women will be channelling the Suffragettes and marching on the capital.
They will be join fellow members of Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) from across the county, who will be participating in a demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday, June 29.
The event coincides with the 1909 anniversary of Emmeline Pankhurst and the Suffragettes movement marching to Westminster and presenting a petition to Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith.
The WASPI protest will take place outside the Houses of Parliament, where a mass choir of 200 women – joined by MPs – will gather to sing the WASPI anthem.
The event aims to highlight to the wider public the hardship and unfairness suffered by women born in the 1950s, on or after the 6th April 1951, as a result of the Government’s alterations to the State Pension Age (SPA) and, in particular, the lack of notice given to the changes, by the Department for Work and Pensions.
WASPI does not object to the increase in the women’s SPA, but represents a cohort of women who have been unfairly disadvantaged by the speed of the increase, compounded by the absence of notice provided by successive Governments.
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