December 14, 1914: This was the first time women were allowed to vote in the UK. The Suffragette Campaign had created a political turmoil that had all political parties rethinking their traditionally hard line stance on the idea of Women's Suffrage. Unlike the battle of words indulged by the party leaders in Scotland during the recent debates on the referendum, the battle for female suffrage led to many violent confrontations, even loss of life. Most of the political parties from the 1890's through to the 1920's, made the mistake of underestimating the will behind the suffragette movement; that will led to many sacrificing all they had to achieve the political freedom enjoyed by men and denied to them due to their sex. Have the politic leaders in Westminster underestimated the political will of the Scottish people to achieve their independence?
