Now lets look at the economic reasons, to close all striptease in the UK will cost the government an estimated £200m in lost revenue and benefits. That is split between local and national but it is still a large chunk of change. Plus with jobs so hard to come by 10,000 dancers plus all the associated staff will become unemployed.

When an organisation the size of object (Banyard called them two people without an office) have the political clout to preach to Leveson about page 3 when the disabled advocacies where unable to complain about the image of disability in the press you question the sanity and priorities in the world.

Finally you have known a lot of strippers, I noticed you didn’t say were friends with and judging by the tone and terms you are in some sort of social service type field. Now object has done nothing in the last two years about prostitution but has concentrated on striptease. How many dancers do you know well enough to know exactly what they want?

It should make people at least think about it when today’s female sexual empowerment looks so much like yesterday’s sexual objectification. Rather than forcing women to do something they are unhappy with, it makes much more commercial sense to sell the behaviour as ‘empowering’ so they choose to do it themselves.

I don’t like it when feminists get into bed with religious organisations. I guess its just a means to an end.

You may not agree but at least take the time to learn what people are actually saying before arguing with it.

And yes I’ve known a lot of strippers and worked directly with prostitutes.

Something else which the ‘liberal’ left has done over the last couple of decades has been to embrace all manner of identity politicians and self-appointed ‘community leaders’, ostensibly in the name of diversity and a postmodern agenda: in practice, what it’s amounted to has been a cynical grab for the votes of ‘key’ demographics, based on the assumption that the white working classes are both politically inactive and culturally conservative, and are therefore best ignored by the political elite. It’s particularly ironic, when one considers just how reactionary and anti-democratic many of the figures whom the so-called left has championed have been revealed to be.

“As can be readily evidence simply by listening to & observing them, the white working class are far more willing to absorb and assimilate immigrant cultures than their middle class counterparts. But the ‘liberal left’ has hypocritically grabbed the so-called moral high ground and focused on the alleged racial issues, and in doing so has done the work for BNP & EDL etc. The ‘liberal left’ with all its economic advantages has never shown itself willing to actually commit itself to the national commonwealth if it means any economic sacrifice on their part.”

One can see this both in patterns of inner-city gentrification (with the accompanying grab for control of local politics) and the manner in which mass immigration had almost become a taboo topic amongst mainstream politicians until working class Labour voters switched to the BNP in protest (rather than out of genuine conviction), and continues to evoke the smear of ‘racism’ every time it is raised in public.

Perhaps if Ken had stopped cosying up to figures on the margins of politics – many of whom have overt anti-pluralist, anti-democratic agendas – in a blatant attempt to capture key demographics, he’d be Mayor of London today. Londoners voted in a Labour-majority GLA, with significant swings against both the the Tories and Lib Dems, after all.

Personally, I’m overjoyed to see that Brian ‘odious toad’ Coleman has been defeated in Barnet & Camden by Andrew Dismore!

Oh, one key thing missed in the article is that credit for launching the “Boris” Bikes does not belong with Boris. The scheme was put together, agreed & completely signed off before Boris even came to power. The fact he likes to cycle has made it easy for him to associate himself & take credit for it.