Doris Fisher, Baroness Fisher of Rednal

Doris Mary Gertrude Fisher, Baroness Fisher of Rednal (* September 13, 1919 in Birmingham, England, † December 18, 2005 ibid ) was a British politician of the Labour Party. Since 1974 she worked as a Life Peeress member of the House of Lords.

Life

Doris Mary Gertrude Fisher, née Satchwell was the daughter of Frederick James Satchwell. Her father had participated as a soldier in the First World War. She attended the Tinker 's Farm Girls ' School in Birmingsham, the co -operatives ' Fircroft College and later the Bournville Day Continuation College.

Fisher was initially a housewife. In 1945, she joined the Labour Party. Her political career began in local politics. In 1952 she was elected to the Birmingham City Council; the Birmingham City Council, she belonged to as a member until 1974. In Birmingham City Council, she was chairman of the building committee ( Housing Committee ).

Fisher was in 1961 President ( National President) of the Co-operative Party Guild. In 1961 she was peace judge.

In 1969 she was a candidate in the constituency of Birmingham Ladywood in the by-election for the House of Commons, but was defeated Wallace Lawler, the candidate of the Liberal Democrats. The by-election was necessitated by the sudden death of Victor Yates, the MPs of the Labour Party in the constituency of Birmingham Ladywood. The following year, at the British general election, 1970, she won the constituency of Birmingham Ladywood and was until 1974 the House of Commons on. After a change of constituency boundaries Fisher entered 1974 not again for re-election at.

From 1975 to 1979 Fisher was a delegate of the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

She was from 1975 to 1989 member (Member) of Warrington and Runcorn Development Corporation.

Political priorities

Fishers was particularly interested in the course of her political career in local politics, particularly the housing policy. In the center of their political activity, the interests of the city of Birmingham were. She was one of the first politicians who campaigned in the UK for the construction of social housing.

She turned against the unequal treatment of men and women when using public toilets and urinals and organized gmeinsam with two other councilors a demonstration in front of public toilets in Birmingham to abolish tolls for women. She explained, was unfair that women have to pay for human need.

In her inaugural speech in the House of Commons in November 1970, she criticized the household budget of Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber, Baron Barber; the budget was " transparent " and reveal the " dichotomy between having and not-having ." She called for a uniform Gesetzgeburg and control over the manufacturing and composition of fruit liqueurs and fruit juices. She advocated that women who had to appear in court due to car accidents, should be exempted from reporting their age.

In December 1991, at the age of 72 years, Fisher stayed in a dormitory of cardboard boxes in front of St Philip's Cathedral in Birmingham to draw attention to the situation of the homeless in Birmingham; their action caused a great sensation.

Membership in the House of Lords

On July 2, 1974 Fisher was appointed Life Peeress and became a member of the House of Lords; they bore the title Baroness Fisher of Rednal, of Rednal in the City of Birmingham.

Your inauguration, she held on November 6, 1974 Topic agricultural policy. Also in the House of Lords, she represented until the 1990s, in particular the interests of Birmingham.

In the House of Lords Fisher 1974 Representative of the Crown ( Crown Representative) of the General Medical Council in September; later, she was Chairman of the Esperanto Group. From 1983 to 1984 she was Assistant Whip of the Labour Party for the domains of environment and environmental protection. She was Vice - President ( Vice - President) of the Institute of Trading Standards Administration.

In Hansard word posts Fishers in the House of Lords from the years 1974 to 1997 are documented. On 19 March 1997 she went to work in the pensions debate Pensions: downgrading falling on hospitalization for the last time to speak.

Private

Fisher married on 20 April 1939 at the age of 20 years, the metal workers and fitters Joseph Fisher; her husband worked for the British automotive group in the British Leyland Longbridge Industrial Complex in Birmingham; he died in 1978. From the marriage two daughters were born. During an illness of her husband, she secured temporarily to the livelihood of the family by selling newspapers in front of the entrance gates of the British Leyland factory in Longbridge.

Doris Fisher died in December 2005 at the age of 86 years in Birmingham.