PunterNet thanks Harriet for massive upswing

bring back wifetrader!

it's a shame that noone built a real wifetrader/husbandtrader website :-)

http://pictures.negativeiq.net/sexist/wifetrader.html

@dunncha

But doesn't that run on EUNUCHS?

Harriet gets it wrong, again...

What she should really making the headlines about is her own Government's Police and Crime Bill which, under the guise of "protecting" women, will actually make them *more* vulnerable to exploitation and abuse.

Whilst the Goverment has rowed back on its plans to criminalise anyone who paid for sex by making it a "strict liabilty" issue, ie if the woman was "controlled for gain" it wouldn't matter if you didn't know that fact, you were still guilty, they still define "control for gain" so badly that anyone working of their own free will would also be caught.

Not only that, but it allows "brothel closure orders" which are effectively defined as "anything the Police think is a brothel" without the need for proof or evidence!

Also, and possibly worst of all the Police will have a financial interest in getting prosecutions under the Proceeds of Crime Act, ie they can sieze money from working women if they think it was obtained illegally!

All this will do is force women who work in the sex industry into greater isolation or into the hands of unscrupulous pimps. meaning that any "protection" this law gives will actually make them *more* vulnerable because the women will not dare to report assaults or other crimes committed against them for fear of being arrested themselves.

Work experience for HH

Harriet Harperson really doesn't seem to understand the various causes she "champions". She should consider some work experience in the online sex trade during the next recess of Parliament. Perhaps she will then have subject knowledge rather than espousing nonsense, half truths and lies. Woman will be safer and have better equality when HH stops fighting their corner!

Harriet Harman

Icon says it all.

Dear Harriet....

Our security guru runs a neat app that looks for web spikes and warns the security admins if a particular IP address or range is getting a lot of outbound as a way of detecting trojan activity. Surprisingly, Punternet wasn't on our commercially-sourced ban list (!), but is now after just over 3000 hits on the day after your latest gaffe, Harriet. Now, out of an employee base of 11,000+ that's quite a lot of "honest-I-was-just-looking-out-of-curiosity" pervs AKA potential voters you're making a fool of yourself to, Ms Harman.

Literally...

...rushed off their feet??

Classic New Labour

"The Internet Is Bad!"

We don't understand it and we don't check our facts but trust us there is bad stuff on there.

Remember...

This has little to do with Harriet Harman actually wanting to make a difference, and more about her jumping on a bandwagon that she obviously knows little about to curry favour with some voters that themselves may have so little understanding of the wider world that they actually listen to her.

But there is a cure for the disease that is the likes of Harriet Harman... it's called strategic voting.

Just politics as usual

It is critical that sex-for-money activities be made illegal in such a way as to make them available to the well-known while maintaining the threat of police action if someone were to publicize that they are servicing such a well known person...

Or better still ...

Legalise prostitution like most civilised countries. This therefore takes the trade out of the hands of traffickers and pimps and puts it into the hands of independent women and licensed brothels.

Tax gets paid on income and VAT on "services" and everyone is happy.

But that won't happen because some bloke in a dress with a funny hat believes that sex is bad.

Another clue-less popularist politician

Nothing to see here, move along...

@The Bug re. Or better still

"...some bloke in a dress with a funny hat believes that sex is bad."

Using elementary Googling skills, I've found lots of pictures of blokes wearing dresses and funny hats who obviously believe that sex is a good thing and great fun. You need to be more specific when you make that kind of statement.

Evil charities

"Clearly Harman's department has done no reserach on the subject."

Ah but this is what you need to realise - these batty laws dont' come from government, westminster of even whitehall; it's all the daffy NGOs and charridees that lobby minister directly that are driving this. Feminist NGOs are bypassing the democratic system to impose their views right at the top - and do the press report this? If a *business* was getting this kind of access and response the BBC would be all over it, but because it's a "charity" they think "oh, they're the good guys" and no one is fussed.

Quote from Farther Ted

Father Ted: Down with this sort of thing!