Have Barbara Castle and Margaret Thatcher contest a UK general election with a 1973 POD. Bonus if Castle is the Lab PM, double bonus if Castle beats Thatcher.
I'm not sure that was so. OK, Thatcher became PM and was more closely known to the female general public than Castle which, IMHO, means that more would know her faults than those of Castle. I also think that quite a lot of women voted for Thatcher over 3 General Elections and would have done so had she remained Tory Leader in a 4th.She is generally regarded as having more appeal than Thatcher to women voters.
I'm not sure that was so. OK, Thatcher became PM and was more closely known to the female general public than Castle which, IMHO, means that more would know her faults than those of Castle. I also think that quite a lot of women voted for Thatcher over 3 General Elections and would have done so had she remained Tory Leader in a 4th.
Nice, RogueBeaver!Apparently one of the women who voted for her in 1979 was Mary Wilson.![]()