One should not expect to find new policies on any subject springing up from Parliament; the atmosphere there is arid, the life stultifying to thought. At best at very best — the Members of Parliament carry on the politics they adopted before they entered there, or catch up some vibrations or movements going on outside. Parliament is a decaying institution: it will pass away with the capitalist system: it will be replaced by the industrial soviets, when production, distribution and transport pass out of the hands of the capitalist, to become the joint concern of the whole people, each branch of industry being administered by those who are engaged in it.
Women can no more put virtue into the decaying parliamentary institution than can men: it is past reform and must disappear.
Sylvia Pankhurst