If half the 10,000 hookers came from Vegas...
...it would deplete our local supply by 15%
The UK Government is preparing to repel an invasion by an army of prostitutes, which it believes is likely to descend on the Olympic Games in 2012. On Monday, Labour MP Fiona McTaggart asked Tessa Jowell, Minister for the Olympics whether she had commissioned any research on the effect of increased visitor numbers for the …
"However, it is not clear what weight – if any – the Women’s National Commission gave to evidence from an organisation that is directly involved in sex work."
Well of course they're all filthy whores (and probably on drugs) so you can't trust anything they say anyway!
I was going to clarify that by saying I'm referring to the IUSW, but on second thoughts...
Five. 40,000. Those are pretty close. Close enough for government work as my dear old dad used to say.
Seems a bit like our War on Drugs and MickeyD's McDLT back in the 80's. Invent a problem where one didn't exist before, then solve it.
FIFA¹ indicates that average attendance at the Germany World Cup games was 44K, so just about one prosy per attendee. Yes, that seems about right.
¹http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=107/index.html
> Sterling arithmitic [sic] there, because of course there was only one match played...
At least my arithmetic is better than your spelling. By chance did you see the words _average attendance_ in my post?
Perhaps I should have used "arithmetic mean" instead -- would that have made it clearer?
Actually, John Robson, by doing as you do, you are implicitly buying into the government agitprop on this issue. Its the old saw about a statistician drowning in water that is on average 1 inch deep.
The 40,000 figure was pretty much plucked out of the air by those opposed to alleged trafficking...little or no analytical base for it whatsoever.
The 5 is an actual, based on police figures. That is police figures in a country where prostitution is effectively legalised, organised and trade unionised. So working girls are not going to report instantly to the police if some outsiders turn up down the road undercutting the market and breaking the law?
Really?
In a sense, this story makes the case for decriminalisation of prostitution in a nutshell. Where working girls are able to police their own trade to some extent, they almost certainly will do.
Yes...I would be more than prepared to believe that the police hit rate was not 100%...that they missed some instances...but not by miles.
So the issue on the evidence provided is not "somewhere in the middle"...but quite possibly negligible to non-existent.
What gets me, of course, is how the head of the Women's Commission is happy to talk to the Lords about these figures being widely known. Nope. Widely claimed. There is a difference.
So where are these 40,000 women the rest of the time? Sitting on shelves in some warehouse? And how exactly are the traffickers supposed to recoup the costs and risks of transporting them half way across Europe for two weeks? It is not as though accommodations is going to be particularly cheap at the time either. Traffickers may be scum but they aren't idiots, unlike certain of our esteemed political representatives.
If we're going to extrapolate figures here, there were approximately 5 million people in each stadium watching a game played by several forty a side teams each ref'd by 35 people from 169 different countries.
Meantime at home and in pubs around the solar system, viewing figures were in the trillions.
It doesn't say much about our law enforcement teams if they could only find 5 of those girls now does it?
.... of 40,000 women hanging around the entrances of the stadium in short skirts, stilettos and smoking the obligatory Gauloise fag. And they could only nick 5 of them? FFS were the plod blind?
One of the most ridiculous stories yet to come out of the mouth of a British MP... oh wait
How's this for an idea?
1. The IUSW launches a patriotic Buy British! campaign, promoting British prostitutes over foreign imports. (You'd buy their services, by the way, not the prostitutes themselves (they're not slaves, you know).)
2. The IUSW calls on the government to support it's Buy British! campaign as part of its wider efforts to deal with the problem of sex slave trafficking.
3. ?????
4. PROFIT!
"that vile trade" says it all.
Of course, I can understand that a woman does not appreciate the concept of prostitution. I don't think I've ever met a woman who does (never having met a prostitute, that is).
Unfortunately, speaking in her official capacity, Ms Jowell should remind herself that her personal opinions are not to be brought up in official speech.
Prostitution, like it or not, is as old as Humanity and is not going away any time soon.
Deal with it.
I think you may be getting your spouses of corrupt female polits mixed up. Mr Jacqui Smith is the one with the dodgy films, Mr Tessa Jowell is the one with the massive Italian bribery scandal.
So difficult to keep track of them, I know.
The good news here is that we can look forward to the plod arresting half the women's marathon, on the grounds that any woman going around outdoors wearing only briefs and a crop top must be touting for business.