Saving the Country through Needless Laws!

The Moai sent me yet another example of legislating first, thinking later. Oh yes, this time the government wants to have a pop at the punters of prostitutes. For their part in pimping and human trafficking. No, really.

I've no desire to protect those who use prostitutes, but I thought there were already laws designed to put punters off. Like the laws against soliciting. And kerb crawling. Besides, how does punishing the punters really help prostitutes? Wouldn't it be better to have a pop at the people traffickers and the pimps? I mean, there are laws against them as well, but over-legislating has never been a big concern of Nu Labour.

Also, how are this going to work? How are the prostitutes punters going to check whether the whore they wish to spend money on are controlled by pimps or illegal immigrants? Is the government going to issue forms so they can show due diligence when shopping around for a fuck? And - in the highly unlikely events that the punters asked - does anyone think that the prostitutes are going to admit to being pimped or being illegal immigrants?

And since when have these punters been put off touring the streets because of the law? Does anyone think that the Home Secretary adding to the statute books is really going to make your average purveyor of prostitutes stop thinking with their dicks and instead consider the moral and ethical implications of what they are doing?

This new law is typical of Nu Labour - legislating on areas where laws already exist. It is simply the hysterical reaction of the Nu Labour mindset - something is wrong, so let's pass a law! That will make it all ok again!

Except the laws already exist. They just aren't being enforced. And no matter how many laws are passed, it won't change a damned thing. This new drive is about as likely to stop prostitution as ID cards are to stop terrorism. An abject, pitiful, waste of time and money.

If this government had spent as much time enforcing laws as it had needlessly and mindlessly legislating, then we would be in a far better country than the rundown mess that makes up the UK today.