Help us choose a winner - The Churchill Awards

I do think GNHQ should have got back to us as to whether posthumous nominations are acceptable, although it's rather late in the day now...

I'm still going with Ann Clwyd, despite not being either a Labour supporter or Welsh!

Cari did, on Monday. Posthumous nominations are allowed.

Oh, I'm sorry - missed that!

You do make a very good point jingle and I have reconsidered my suggestions and would also nominate Efua Dorkenu as someone who I should imagine would be universally respected for the contribution she made to protecting the rights of girls and young women.

I do, though, take issue with your very strident initial comments and your final instruction to gransnetters re who they should vote for.

I appreciate you feel strongly about fgm (as I'm sure most of us do) but suggesting that some gransnetters whose views you don't share are "narrow" and "selfish" is, I think, uncalled for. The award does, after all, ask for nominations of people who have made a political contribution and what immediately springs to mind is the more conventional use of the word "political".
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A political contribution surely includes influencing politicians on issues like this.

Yes I agree Elegran, almost anything can be described as "political" but my immediate reaction was to think of someone who was "political" in the way the word is generally used.

Not strident and no "instructing" in my post Eloethan. Just trying hard to make my point as effectively as possible.

I hadn't realised that Margaret Hodge is 70. She doesn't look it.
If Tony Benn is not considered acceptable, although I still think he should be, and he will not get the chance next year, Margaret Hodge would be a good replacement.
She certainly does a great deal to hold errant MPs, etc., to account.

What has she actually done in the last twelve months to benefit the human race?

Can we bear in mind that the first successful prosecution for fgm in this country was brought about in the last few months?

Where are the posters who contributed to this thread a while ago. Only Glass willing to put her head above the parapet and agree with MiceElf's excellent nomination here?

Ann Clwyd's Female Genital Mutilation Bill (2003)
strengthened measures in the Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985, and increased penalties from five to 14 years.

That was some time ago now, admittedly, but she's still out there working for her constituents, athough she's standing down at the next election.

What is "politics"? Answer: law-making. So it follows that anyone trying to get a law changed, or enforced, is engaging in politics.

Chambers says:

"pertaining to policy or government;
pertaining to parties differing in their views of government;
interested or involved in politics"

jingle MiceElf didn't harangue everyone who put forward a nomination different from hers or with which she disagreed. Why are you being so combative?

Have a look at the public accounts committee, jingle, if you want to know what Margaret Hodge does in politics.
Or maybe she should be left until after she becomes Mayor of London.

I, too, would like to support the nomination for Efua Dorkenoo.Who else could claim that their legacy has the potential to help 30 million girls and women?

Eleothan - it's politics darling, but not as we know it.

Why do you -effing-- think I'm being so "combative"?

You're funny.

I quite agree Grannylin.

Looks like a done deal then - haranguing obviously works!

I think I am bright enough to work it out myself Ana

Was there really any need for that, Grannylin?

Are you back from holiday now, jingle?

Thanks for the reminder, jingl. I also endorse the nomination of Efua Dorkenoo.

I make that eight posters nominating Efua Dorkenoo.

Others can count their own.