Social Distancing is BAD NEWS for SEX WORKERS
'And prostitutes are now pressuring the government to recognise them as workers so they can claim state benefits and avoid having to walk the streets.
'It comes as industry leaders warn prostitution must be decriminalised to avoid spreading the infection and keep workers safe.
'Prostitution is not illegal in the UK but related activities, such as pimping, kerb crawling, and running a brothel, are unlawful.'
The problems of sex workers are obviously to all in the current climate. Clearly it's difficult to practice 'Social Distancing' if you're working 'on the game' as they may say.
Carl Spender in a column on the anarchist Freedom News website on Apr 3rd wrote: 'People are being criminalised for coronavirus offences that don't exist'.
He was excited about what he called 'front line coppers are running around like heavily armed headless chickens'.
Comrade Spender was particularly exercised by an arrest by the British Transport Police (BTP) of a found 'loitering between platforms' at Newcastle Central station last Saturday. Charged with failing to comply with requirements of the Coronavirus Act 2020. It doesn't surprise me that to learn that the British Transport Police wrongly charged a 41 woman from York, using the wrong legislation. When I was arrested in 1997 together with an Irishman and three goats, the Manchester branch of the British Transport police similarly used the wrong procedures. On that occasion the lower court found against me, but the Crown Court quashed that judgement later when it was found that while the Transport Police were right to remove the goats but that did not entitle them to remove the humans. From that encounter I found that the British Transport Police are generally regarded as the poor relation of the police service.
However, in keeping with the fashions of the left Comrade Spender is more interested in the woman's ethnic nature, because in a footnote he draws attention to the French police's focus on St. Denis in Paris: " ‘people the police don’t like the look of’ is a heavily racialised category'," and he concludes: 'In France, for example, 10% of fines for violating lockdown conditions have been issued to the ~100,000 residents of the Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis, an area which is famously home to many migrants and people of colour.'
When I first went to Paris in 1963, Belleville was the multi-ethnic neighbourhood
Belleville is a colorful and multi-ethnic neighbourhood home to many Spanish Civil War refugees, but the last time I went to Paris a few years ago, Saint-Denis was notorious or famous for its brothels and street-walkers.
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