Do we detect another Taghna Lkoll vote-buying electoral pledge?
My vote goes to Chris Cardona, in return for a 100-euro note in my G-string.
The list of special-interest groups targeted by the Labour Party and bought with promises that shouldn’t have been made is growing so fast that it’s hard to keep up: the hunters, the Monti hawkers, the developers, the hoteliers with their two-storeys, the…exhausting.
Now it looks like the Pseudo-Soho Kings of Paceville lobby has been bought, too. Three news items in virtually as many days indicate this: PS for Justice Owen Bonnici saying that the law will be changed to accomodate lapdancing clubs; Minister for the Economy (and lapdancing fan) Chris Cardona putting his personal friend Jeremy Dalli, partner in Paceville clubs Footloose and Qube, on the board of Malta Industrial Parks Ltd (just how close are they?), and tonight, PS for Culture Jose Herrera talking about the enactment of new legislation to permit adult shows which may be objectionable to certain strata of society (I quote the newspaper reports).
By this he doesn’t mean plays like Stitching, which caused so much controversy here, because that does not require new legislation but only different interpretation of existing legislation. New legislation will be required for the kind of thing you get in London’s Soho, but then you also have to be prepared for the trade in women that comes with it.
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Romanian girls can now rest assured of finding a less degrading career than marriage to an old and ugly Maltese man who just wants a human keychain.
The sex industry in Soho and other places in the UK and Europe has been there for absolutely ages. It is hard to eliminate it. However, to encourage such an industry in this day and age is absurd.
Behind the glitz of the sex trade lies all sorts of crime: human trafficking, slavery, drugs…you name it. Women rarely chose to work in the sex trade for the love of it. They usually get into it for some easy cash to satisfy their drugs problems or are simply tricked or forced into this milieu.
The only people who gain in all this are the club owners, the agencies and the pimps who exploit vulnerable women who desperately need support.
Herrera: you are just an ignorant sleazeball.
The many frustrated Maltese men who attend these shows need to get a real life.
Dear Daphne, our Minister for the Economy can now be officially christened Chris Bada Bing Cardona.
I beg to differ with you: “for the kind you used to get in London’s Soho”.
[Daphne – You still do. The area has been cleaned up but the sex shows are still there.]
As the great and sadly missed Sebastian Horsley put it, “The air used to be clean and the sex used to be dirty. Now it’s the other way round.”
Encouraging the sex trade will only prompt the birth or growth of organized crime. Besides the exploitation of women from the eastern block which is a sad and tragic phenomenon in Europe, the demand for drugs and control of this racket will become apparent in the immediate introduction of this legislation.
Just out of curiosity. What’s the deal with Chris Cardona and lapdancing? I must have missed the news item.
[Daphne – He was a regular at lapdancing clubs before he became a minister. I don’t suppose he dares go now.]
L-iktar gvern femminista, hi!