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TheQueef · 2020-11-10T07:40:03+00:00

When are they going to admit error? It's time this pilot ended, it should never have started but it's shown how idiotic the plan was.

CaraDuneRedux · 10/11/2020 17:05

Well yes. Hence my use of "he positions himself..." He thinks of himself as god's gift to the labour movement but the reality is very different. I thought he was about as much use as a chocolate teapot back in the mists of prehistory when I was one of his constituents, and if anything he's got more useless with time.

HecatesCats · 10/11/2020 17:03

Hilary Benn has been MP for Leeds central since forever and a day. He positions himself as one of the elder statemen of the Labour party, a voice of reason on the back benches*

He's a huge disappointment

CaraDuneRedux · 10/11/2020 17:02

@Thelnebriati

Has anyone from the area looked into withholding the portion of tax that pays for the zone? Its a legal form of protest but you have to go about it in a certain way.

Why are people expected to pay taxes so that men can abuse women? The zone costs taxpayers an estimated £300,000 a year. Even ignoring all of the other objections I don't see how they can justify it, just on the cost alone.

That's a brilliant suggestion for a piece of direct action.

According to wikipedia there's roughly 300,000 households in Leeds, so I suppose you'd only be justified in withholding 1 quid of your council tax, but the administrative burden on the council to sort out the ensuing mess would be huge! Brilliant symbolic gesture (no-one could claim that people were withholding 1 quid for reasons of personal gain) while causing maximum disruption.

Thelnebriati · 10/11/2020 16:57

Has anyone from the area looked into withholding the portion of tax that pays for the zone? Its a legal form of protest but you have to go about it in a certain way.

Why are people expected to pay taxes so that men can abuse women? The zone costs taxpayers an estimated £300,000 a year. Even ignoring all of the other objections I don't see how they can justify it, just on the cost alone.

CaraDuneRedux · 10/11/2020 16:55

@HecatesCats

The national Labour party's complicity is shameful. I'm so hacked off with their blatant lack of concern for women and girls.

Yes.

Hilary Benn has been MP for Leeds central since forever and a day. He positions himself as one of the elder statemen of the Labour party, a voice of reason on the back benches. He's clearly been ignoring this for donkeys years and ignoring his female constituents. (For the record, Leeds Central is not leafy suburbia - it encompasses Woodhouse and Little London and other extremely impoverished areas. It also suffers from voter apathy on an epic scale - turnouts of 20% are not unusual, cos let's face it, when you're being crapped on from a great height, the local MP doesn't give a shit and the council are on the side of pimps and nonces, there's precious little incentive to get engaged in the democratic process.)

HecatesCats · 10/11/2020 16:44

The national Labour party's complicity is shameful. I'm so hacked off with their blatant lack of concern for women and girls.

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thinkingaboutLangCleg · 10/11/2020 15:52

But Conservative members on Leeds City Council say not enough local people were listened to during the review, and have submitted a motion, ... [calling] for the council to do more to engage with local people around the zone, and to even consider an “exit strategy” for the policy.

So now we have to rely on the Tories to defend women's rights. I'm speechless.

CaraDuneRedux · 10/11/2020 15:07

Bumping this to get more people to sign...

ThinEndOfTheWedge · 10/11/2020 13:28

Link to recent thread with petition about this monstrosity.

Please all sign.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4073554-End-the-Leeds-Managed-Prostitution-Zone

Whatwouldscullydo · 10/11/2020 13:12

There is one very obvious reason they want to keep it.

We should expect no better from the men involved in politics and law than we do any other man.

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TheQueef · 10/11/2020 12:53

It's attracted criticism from any and every agency that crosses paths.

I'm convinced they are planning to use Holbeck as some template, why else keep it?

I've been the mad old bag calling 101 and writing registration numbers down for fifteen years. I'm on the edge of Rotherham, SYP are spectacularly uninterested.

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Marmite27 · 10/11/2020 12:24

@DidoLamenting

I don't understand why the population of Leeds en masse don't demand to close this down. It's completely indefensible.

For the majority of Leeds, it’s a case of out of sight, out of mind.

It’s a disgrace. Local residents have tried, but not got anywhere.

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TheQueef · 10/11/2020 12:16

Bullet dodged Butterer!

We are just prey.

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Ereshkigalangcleg · 10/11/2020 12:08

So relieved for you, Butterer

SunsetBeetch · 10/11/2020 12:02

Oh Butterer, how awful.

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TheQueef · 10/11/2020 11:48

Out of sight out of mind.
Provided no leafy green suburbs are sullied no one will care.
Worthless women can be abused, bought, sold as long as it's the worthless ones.

Disgraceful.

I live near an unofficial ignored area.
The street walkers aren't the worse of it. So many times a car will meet a punter and exchange money for a female. It's very clandestine so I assume under aged or trafficked.
Hiding in plain sight.
The addict being bent over the bonnet is unremarkable now.

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Angryresister · 10/11/2020 10:42

Yes thanks tosunset for collection of links. But our voices are clearly of no value.

Angryresister · 10/11/2020 10:41

When are men going to stop with their justification for exploiting women?...it doesn’t matter to them who or when. And all those making money from pimping and drugs. Boys must learn early on that this is not an activity open to them. And neither is it a career choice for girls.

CaraDuneRedux · 10/11/2020 10:07

Thanks Sunset - extremely useful to have them collected in one place.