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I said (wrote) 'there were' tolerance zones, I think that they were tried for a while but closed becuase the local residents started to complain - although the zones were not situation anywhere near residential areas. Of course all the ususal suspects kicked up a rumpus about it!

There was a generally poor 'uptake' too; it seems, unsurprisingly, that
many working-girls preferred not to exchange one form of control for another.
And taxation reared its ugly head too- whether or not it could have been
made a practical propostion, many girls chose to remain underground
rather than risk sharing their revenue with the State- and of course some
legal wags pointed out that the Govt. might thus risk a charge of
Living off Immoral Earnings... .
A templated solution was never going to work in a situation whose
practitioners have so many entry-routes [drug-addiction/choice/coercion
etc etc ] and such wildly different earning expectations.
The authorities need urgently to concentrate on stopping the coercive-
deceptive trafficking element before adopting a more practical, more adult,
less hypocritical approach than currently pertains.

Ahhh Fiona McNutter - fails to understand that the problem is coercion, drug dependency, lack of choices and not prostitution itself.

As an ex-stepfather [too complicated to explain] I thought long and hard
about this, and intellectual honesty forced me to the conclusion that
while I wouldn't have been ecstatic about the prospect of my step-daughter
adopting this 'profession' I would have had no right to dictate to
a moral adult her choice of lifestyle.
I would also have offered to mortgage everything I owned if it would
finance a change of heart, and failing this I would have beseeched her in
the bowels of Christ to hypothecate part of her earnings to the retention
of a very large and muscular minder, never to enter in the course of
her business any premises less than four-star, always text her next
location to a reliable and proactive friend with an agreed call-back time,
and to adopt ultra-safe sexual health measures with weekly check-ups.

This unconditional love thing is a REAL bugger...

Strangely my then wife was slightly [only slightly, mind] more sanguine
than I at the [safely hypothetical, thank the non-existent God] prospect.
Male vanity vs. female pragmatism?

Alice In Blunderland wrote:

> It was Fiona McTaggart.

Why am I not surprised about that? Fiona-man-hater-McTaggart!

It's there, plain as day, in the Manifesto:
"We aim to be strong on Stuff, and strong on the causes of Stuff*."

[*from the Small-print, just below the printer's mark: "Not to be taken
literally. Not legally or morally binding, the above in no way reflects the
opinions of the authors, or anyone in New Labour, nor their friends, wives,
wives' hairdressers, golf-partners, accountants or issue [legal or
otherwise.
To be taken three times a day after meals, with a large pinch of salt"]