The suffragettes are remembered fondly. They even had a rail line named after them in London.

It’s called primitive accumulation in Marxist-Leninist circles or to put it another way;

“To achieve a great leap a generation must be sacrificed” Liu Zhijin, Minister of railways

How can a capitalist country have a national health service?

Whilst dissent event is catchier than mass public incident the fact that it includes petitioning through official channels makes it a meaningless number. It’s like measuring the health of a democracy by measuring voter turn out.

There are Irish republicans who refuse to swear allegiance to the king/ queen and are unable to take their seats in Westminster. This doesn’t trigger a by-election though.