Thursday 23 January 2014

Crawling Towards A Curb

Not much has really happened at the European Parliament on the subject of prostitution today.

A committee with Mary Honeyball on it, and which broadly exists in order to provide a platform for old-school feminism (although that has a lot to be said for compared to several of the newer variants), has endorsed a report by Honeyball.

That endorsement has no practical effect. Nor will the probable its ratification by the full Parliament at some time or other in the future. But at least the debate is now open.

By all means let it be made a criminal offence for anyone above the age of consent, raised to 18, to buy sex. And, with exactly equal sentencing, for anyone above the age of consent, raised to 18, to sell sex.

Are women morally and intellectually equal to men, or not?

4 comments:

  1. Reminds me of the Labour MEP's who recently unanimously voted to make abortion an EU human right.

    The idea that a Durham Catholic votes for the party of mass divorce and mass abortion is hilariously tragic.

    And don't say the Tories never reversed the 1967 or 69 Acts that brought us these things.

    That is to miss the point.

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  2. You cannot begin to imagine how many points you are missing.

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  3. Next time you are in the Number 1, or the Demi, or any of the other citadels of old Irish Consett, you should take him in with you. Then again, maybe not.

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  4. He could tell them how the same Thatcher who closed the steelworks (which was in the black) did not in fact legalise abortion up to birth, even though they remember her doing it.

    And he could entreat them to vote for that UKIP candidate who said that all disabled children ought to have been aborted, because they were a drain on the taxpayer.

    "Irish" isn't quite the word now, really. We have just buried one of the last of those, complete with Hail, Glorious Saint Patrick as he was being carried out, among other splendid features of a splendid send-off. But even he had been born over here, and that was in 1939.

    As they used to say on Facebook, it's complicated. Although not too complicated. Some things are never going to change.

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