Those f lapping liberals get it wrong AGAIN

PEOPLE with flapping mouths and flapping minds are much given to calling for the ‘decriminalisation’ of evil things, in the fanciful belief that this will make them go away. All they do is let evil off the leash, and make its purveyors rich.

We were told in the 1960s that taking the restrictions off pornography would end repression and make us all healthier. That didn’t quite work out. The full, terrible consequences of going soft on drugs are still only just beginning to show. But will anyone learn anything from this or from the total, horrific failure of a ‘legal’ red-light district in Leeds, reported last week?

The Holbeck experiment has been acknowledged as a disaster even by some of its own champions.

The creation of a semi-legal zone of prostitution has been followed by one especially brutal murder, and by a great increase in the number of women selling their bodies, plus what is known locally as ‘an amnesty on scumbags’. There have been at least 67 violent and sexual offences inside the experimental area in two years. There are reports of distressed women wandering barefooted and barely clothed in the snow, others injured and another injecting herself in the groin, not far from the supposedly enlightened sector.

Those who govern us, in this and so many other things, are scared of following any firm moral rule, and scared of using the power they seek. Why then do they want to govern at all? We need an entirely new political class.