Council ban strip adverts
Glasgow City Council has banned all adverts on taxis for strip and lap dancing clubs, which is just another step on the way to outlawing clubs like Northern Ireland. The variations in councils across the UK is marked, some allowing nude strips and some OK with ads, as usual it seems that councils suit themselves indulging their own prejudices using their position to bully legal businesses into closing or restricting their operation.
When you read the rest of the story the Deputy leader of Glasgow City Council, Jim Coleman, is also chairman of ‘Glasgow Violence Against Women Partnership’ whoever they are, so you can see his objective view of the whole situation. Councilors should be free of affiliation with groups that could prejudice their opinions, should someone who is leader of this group be voting/deciding on legislation on strip clubs. This is another example of an outside interest affecting the performance of a public official, indulging themselves due to their religion or similiar prejudice! Most of the MPs that brought you the lap dancing bill earlier this year were swept away in the expenses scandal so I await Mr Coleman’s scandal with baited breath….
While this is small regional point, it seems as though either the government has given councils/police etc to clamp down on strip clubs without the lap dancing bill being put through parliament or are turning a blind eye to growing prejudice against the industry.