Posted by Seraf
on Wed 28 Dec 05, 8:23 AM to Seraf's blog.
I saw this today on the BBC Website
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4563476.stm
The beginning of the second paragraph is wording interestingly. "Zero Tolerance to the sex trade" does that mean everything including pictures, videos and novels???
Oh and I saw this just after the news that a new European GPS system would be in place in a few years and we would all have really helpful chips in our phones, that would connect to it. (Oh and might enable to government to keep an eye on us!) and there was this one little line about it being used for road charging too!!!
What a great start to the day!!!
Edited Wed 28 Dec 05, 8:40 AM by Seraf
| 28 Dec 05, 8:42 AM Seraf 7 yrs |
So why didn't they say zero tolerance to kerb crawling??? It goes on to explain the article, but not necessariliy Blair's attitude! Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power | ||
| 28 Dec 05, 8:53 AM BigBadDen UK(EN), 7 yrs |
you mean they are connected? wow! Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. | ||
| 28 Dec 05, 10:30 AM amira_S 8 yrs |
Again an article showing the government interferring with peoples sex lifes and taking a moral stance. I think whats interesting and not mentioned here is that what is being planned is a zero tolerance approach on prostitution / sex trade. It emphasises banning curb crawling etc which the majority of people would agree with as its anti-social but the women at risk etc etc. What is mentioned early in the article is that plans to introduce "red zones" and other moves to regulate prositution are to be shelved as it is going to be a zero tolerance approach. The red zones would be creating basicly a more amsterdam approach to issue where it could become a licenced profession (complete with taxs and national insurance) where the girls get health checks and are generally kept safer. Instead the government are going to criminalise more people including plans to increase the holding of peoples driving licences if caught. Again the women are the victims of this so they will be put into schemes to education them and help them out of prositution. Great if thats what they want but it is assuming that they have had no choice in the first place. I think the worring thing again is the zero tolerance atitude, by further criminialisation they think the "problem" will go away when in reality education and the proposed plans could have stop prostitution supporting crime and gangs as it would be regulated, women would have been kept safer and healthier and the government would have had increased income from taxes and national insurance. Instead it will now get driven further underground and the problem will just move around rather than being dealt with.
Edited 28 Dec 05, 11:25 AM by amira_S | ||
| 28 Dec 05, 11:22 AM Sweetiejar UK(S), 11 yrs  |
There are a number of people on here who could be loosely described as being part of the sex industry. There are quite a few who have been more directly involved. The problem is that for street prostitutes there are very few options of employment with commensurate remuneration. Very few of these women have the ability to find a job where the take home pay can be in excess of £1K a week. This is the problem; they don't want to give up. Consequently the sex trade will be driven underground where the women have much less protection than the pathetically little they have now. There is no benefit to society in that. Sweetiejar |
