>>520962014
Ultimately women gained the vote because the Tory party needed to boost its vote against the working class. They knew women would vote against the interests of their husbands (e.g., greater safety in mines and factories).

Their "campaign" achieved nothing apart from building up an organisation that could be used for handing out white feathers to young men when war was declared.

Pointless and ineffective suffragette violence gets a free pass to this day.