ISSUE 45: 23.11.2008
Jacqui Klebb gets into another fine mess.
Jacqui Smith, our bungling excuse for a Home Secretary, excels herself by proposing an unworkable new law for the sex trade.
In yet another attempt to win the prize for the biggest prat ever to run the Home Office (and goodness! Hasn’t there been some competition there over the last 10 years?) the Redditch wrecker now puts forward a proposal about as daft as her feminist sister-in-crime, Harriet Harman, with her dotty idea for a fixed quota of gays in Parliament (who cares what their tastes are as long as they do a good job).
Brainless Jacqui proposes that those who use prostitutes for sex would be guilty of a criminal offence but only if the prostitute is “being controlled for another’s gain”.
Now, how on earth is the punter supposed to verify that for certain? Get a signed and witnessed statement beforehand perhaps?
He would certainly need to be sure of his ground because it will be no defence for him to prove that, for instance, he did not know a woman was working for a pimp.
It seems quite obvious to us that in most cases it will be impossible for the client to know if he is committing a criminal offence. The law therefore, in this case, would be a complete ass.
Jacqui Klebb, whom we have already castigated on this site for other deficiencies, claims that her aim is to protect the victims of trafficking.
If that were so, and likely to succeed, we would be behind her 100%. We cannot think of a viler trade than the forcing of young women into prostitution. But Jacqui, you may have forgotten the fact but you are actually in charge of something that used to be called The Police Force. They are the ones to stop trafficking.
Why are the police not unleashed more fully on this ghastly trade of trafficking instead of trying to palm off the responsibility on those who use prostitutes? Why are the police being made to soft-pedal when they know who are the traffickers? If you want to stop this trade, arrest them, charge them and either send them to prison for a very long time or deport them back to where they came from (without worrying about their human rights, please).
No, we think this is merely the usual feminist claptrap, aimed at banishing prostitution completely.
Well, Jacqui, we can tell you now. It won’t work and you and the sisterhood better get used to the idea. Prostitution, unattractive though it might be, has been with us for millennia and will be so for an equal period in the future, we would guess.
Better by far to allow safe, clean brothels where human nature can take its course, where the women are safe, have access to medical services and are released from the curse of the pimp. Where they are volunteers, rather than press-ganged.
Better by far to remove the blight of kerb-crawling and the threat to decent women .
Better by far to unleash the police from their form-filling and let them go after the traffickers in a major drive to help those poor women caught up in their clutches.
You are in charge, Jacqui. Do something about it. It’s what we pay you for.