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12th March 2021 16:22
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Possible UK MALE Curfew after 18.00 hours ??
Ban men from the streets after 6pm says Green Party Baroness! (4k)
The Sarah Everard case has understandably upset people. And it is especially concerning because the alleged perpetrator is a serving police officer.
And the concerns and fears women always have about going out after dark, have once again burst into the public consciousness.
With many women coming forward and talking about the fear they have of being alone in public both at night and during the day.
And I would guess that today will see a marked increase in profit for the purveyors of personal alarms, pepper sprays and the like.
And, as ever we will see massive knee-jerk over-reactions.
Step forward Baroness Jones of the Green Party.
Speaking from the red benches last night, she told her fellow peers:
"In the week that Sarah Everard was abducted and, we suppose killed, because remains have been found in a woodland in Kent, I argue that, at the next opportunity for any Bill that is appropriate, I might put in an amendment to create a curfew for men on the streets after 6 pm.
"I feel this would make women a lot safer, and discrimination of all kinds would be lessened."
Actually, this would increase discrimination by huge amounts - against men. But I'm not sure that either she or the Greens are much worried about that.
What she seems to be asking for, is to have men 'cancelled' after dark.
She may not realise this, but it would be a sort of chronological apartheid practiced against men.
And would this apply to all men in all professions and all trades? Emergency plumbers? Bus drivers? Taxi drivers? Doctors? Paramedics maybe?
And at what time would the curfew end? Midnight? 3 am? 5 am? 7 am? Or never?
And it would probably kill off the night-time hospitality trade completely.
But these days men can claim to be women, so how could they be stopped from wandering out?
But all that aside, the baroness is tarring all men with the same brush. As far as her statement goes, she's basically claiming that all men, every single one of them, are a serious danger to women.
Do men have the right to be offended at that? Not in the 21st Century it seems.
No, nowadays men are required to do a Harry, and just sit quiet and agree with everything she says.
So, what do you think about Baroness Jones? Please share, and comment below.
The Welsh First Minister, Mark Drakeford, has refused to rule out using a curfew on men to help make women feel safer.
This comes hot on the heels of the Green Party peer, Baroness Jones, saying in response to the murder of Sarah Everard that she would put an amendment into the next appropriate bill to force a curfew on all men to keep them off the streets after 6pm.
So it's no wonder that Drakeford has jumped on the bandwagon, is it?
When asked about this when talking to the BBC, he said:
"If there were a crisis, and you needed to take dramatic action that allowed that crisis to be drawn down, then of course you'd be prepared to consider all measures that would make a difference.
"People need to be safe and to feel safe. And that's absolutely the sort of society we wish to create here in Wales."
But he did say that a curfew could only be a temporary answer and was therefore not at the top of his list.
And added that there are other things that could be done.
He should have ruled it out altogether as a stupid suggestion.
So, what's the next suggestion? Men and women can go out on alternate nights, maybe?
Are we seeing a new sort of segregation being pushed here - keeping men and women apart as much as possible?
I know, I'm overreacting.
But the next time a serial killer is on the loose, instead of telling women to stay indoors maybe we'll see an emergency order to keep men off the streets?
Anyway, I'm guessing that Drakeford was hoping to gain some of the female vote for himself and the Labour party in the May Senedd elections. But he may well have lost a lot of the male vote over this as well.
By talking about a curfew that could keep all men, including the perfectly safe 99.99 per cent, out of the pubs, just as lockdown might be starting to ease in the run up to summer.
WHAT CAN I SAY ??
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12th March 2021 16:50
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