Thatcher-In-Rhodesia

[marktaha]

I doubt this alt-Maggie would have an easy time of entering politics by any means - black circles would exclude her for being obviously white, white conservatives would see her as Not One of Us, and white liberals are either keeping quiet, subject to official harassment, Ahrn Palley, or exiled to Oz or NZ.

How many white women MPs were there?

 

[frustrated progressive]

That's got me wondering now, and here's one: frustrated and unmarried science graduate Margaret Roberts emigrates to Rhodesia to join the newly built University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland as a researcher/tutor - here she can get in the ground floor. She only means to be there for a bit before returning to the UK with a better CV and getting new jobs, but life and her ambition mean she's still there come 1965 and UDI...

Before I clicked on it I thought the entire thread would be about this.

 

[Francisco Cojuanco]

How many white women MPs were there?

None at the time of UDI, though one had been elected in the previous parliament for the UFP.