No Sex Please, We’re British

Once again, those wild and crazy English “leaders” are stepping up to the plate and doing something idiotic.

This time it’s in Kent, where there’s a three-year building project going on at West Kent College, with a full complement of laborers present on campus. So college officials felt forced to issue a warning against making any sexual comments or wolf whistles to preserve the proper campus atmosphere.

The kicker is that the warning is to the students, not the laborers! Apparently some female students have been allegedly harassing the laborers. And that might make this the only construction site in the world where (male) workers are whistled at by females and complain about it. Male construction workers, of course, have been whistling at women for probably a hundred years or so, and nobody, to my knowledge, has managed to stop them. But turn the tables once and all of a sudden someone’s panties are in a bunch over it.

But wait, there’s more. And unfortunately, it’s more serious. Apparently this kind of behavior may be considered on a par with serious crimes of violence in the near future.

Here I must quote from the Daily Telegraph article verbatim:

The Sexual Offences (Scotland) Bill will create a new offence of “communicating indecently”, punishable by up to 10 years in jail. The legislation is intended to punish sexual harassment by text, emails and letters, but ministers also aim to include sexually explicit comments to strangers. It is expected that the law would only apply to persistent offenders.

In recent years, Britain has basically banned virtually all firearms, with the predictable result: serious crime of all sorts has gone up across the board. So now they’ve invented a new bogeyman, “knife crime”, so that ordinary people have now become criminals for carrying ordinary pocket knives for ordinary reasons. If they manage to ban knives next, then criminals will go back to bashing people on the head, and Englishmen will no longer be able to carry umbrellas (or bumbershoots, or whatever they call them over there) because they will now be considered potential weapons.

So watch what happens with this law, and see if it indeed gets limited to “persistent offenders”, or whether the police and ruling oligarchy in England use its Draconian penalties against their political enemies.