This @SusanMichie (Sage member)
[source Daily Mail]
“Susan Fiona Dorinthea Michie is the granddaughter of Henry McLaren, the 2nd Baron Aberconway, an Eton-educated Edwardian industrialist and Liberal MP.
He inherited major interests in coal, iron, steel and engineering https://twitter.com/theitgeek80/status/1329448582714437632
[source Daily Mail]
“Susan Fiona Dorinthea Michie is the granddaughter of Henry McLaren, the 2nd Baron Aberconway, an Eton-educated Edwardian industrialist and Liberal MP.
He inherited major interests in coal, iron, steel and engineering https://twitter.com/theitgeek80/status/1329448582714437632
conglomerates, and created the sumptuous gardens at Bodnant House, a stately home set in 5,000 acres near Snowdonia. Her mother, Dame Anne McLaren, was born at Aberconway House, the family's imposing 2,800-square-metre second residence in London's Mayfair, and was one of the
world's leading biologists. When she died in 2007, aged 80, she left £52million in her will.
Ms Michie's father, meanwhile, was an eminent computer scientist who was the son of a wealthy banker whose photo is among the National Portrait Gallery's collection.
Ms Michie's father, meanwhile, was an eminent computer scientist who was the son of a wealthy banker whose photo is among the National Portrait Gallery's collection.
Despite these moneyed roots, the blue-blooded Susan, 62, marches to the beat of her own drum.
She stretches her every sinew in pursuance of a class war as a member of the Communist Party of Britain.
On Monday night, she addressed a meeting of about 40 true believers at the
She stretches her every sinew in pursuance of a class war as a member of the Communist Party of Britain.
On Monday night, she addressed a meeting of about 40 true believers at the
Marx Memorial Library in London's Clerkenwell.
She delivered her speech while standing beneath a portrait of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, a bronze of Lenin and an array of Soviet flags.
Seemingly oblivious to the irony, this lifelong beneficiary of inherited wealth began by
She delivered her speech while standing beneath a portrait of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, a bronze of Lenin and an array of Soviet flags.
Seemingly oblivious to the irony, this lifelong beneficiary of inherited wealth began by
saying: 'We, the working class.'
During the course of a two-hour talk, Ms Michie (whose day-job is as a university academic) made a comment that broke almost a century of hard-Left tradition.
Britain's Communist Party, she said, is urging its members to work 'full tilt' to help
During the course of a two-hour talk, Ms Michie (whose day-job is as a university academic) made a comment that broke almost a century of hard-Left tradition.
Britain's Communist Party, she said, is urging its members to work 'full tilt' to help
get a Labour prime minister.”