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People are sharing this 2016 letter to the Guardian because it’s more relevant than ever

Oonagh Keating. Updated August 9th, 2018

In August 2016, someone called Henry Stewart wrote a letter to the Guardian about the topical issue of whether women should wear burqas or not.

This is what it said.

“No woman in a burqa (or a hijab or a burkini) has ever done me any harm. But I was sacked (without explanation) by a man in a suit.

Men in suits missold me pensions and endowments, costing me thousands of pounds.

A man in a suit led us on a disastrous and illegal war.

Men in suits led the banks and crashed the world economy. Other men in suits then increased the misery to millions through austerity.

If we are to start telling people what to wear, maybe we should ban suits.”

As news emerges that Boris Johnson will face a Conservative Party internal investigation over inflammatory remarks about women who wear the Muslim veil, people have been sharing Henry Stewart’s letter as a beacon of good sense.

https://twitter.com/dfromthep/status/1026962007055065093

In fact, one of the many people sharing the letter, was the letter writer himself.

He even conducted a poll.

Seems conclusive.