Princess Sophia Duleep Singh, descendant of Sikh royalty, god daughter of Queen Victoria & suffragette was prosecuted on the 30/12/1913 for refusal to pay taxes after joining the Tax Resistance League, a society of suffragettes who refused to contribute to a state that would not allow them to vote.
During her trial, at which she faced imprisonment, she said:
“I am unable conscientiously to pay money to the state, as I am not allowed to exercise any control over its expenditure. Neither am I allowed any voice in the choosing of Members of Parliament whose salaries I have helped to pay. This is very unjustified. ………If I am not a fit person for the purposes of representation, why am I a fit person for taxation?”
In 2015, the UK is mostly governed by the EU Commissioners in Brussels. We have no voice in their choosing, no say in the laws they make, no ability to make them repeal any law and no power to get rid of them and yet UK citizens pay £55m per day to the EU.
In 1918, women won the right to have a say over the way their taxes were spent, after a great deal of suffering and pain. In 1972, the UK government gave that right away to the EU Commission. On Referendum day, we have our one and only chance to get it back
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