WE WON

OH YES WE DID.

Two days to go….

On friday the final decision will be taken on whether Dentkas Hassan and Serdal Ziya are to be given permission to open a lap dancing bar within spitting distance of an infants school, a children’s charity and the YMCA hostel. We contend (and all the detailed studies ever taken point to this) that this is the most unsuitable location for a Lap Dancing Bar in Britain. Please attend if you can and show your support

Meeting details

7.30pm Friday 25th September

Wood Green Civic Centre, N22

More whinging by poor little Lap Dancing Club owners

New legislation getting a lot of press – all I can say is, if these clubs are such fine, upstanding places, you’d think they’d welcome complying with the law? Also, if they are not selling sex, somebody should tell the eejits punters before they go in – they should go home and read Loaded, with Linda Lovelace on in the background and save everyone a whole bunch of trouble.

They may be forced out of business – them’s the breaks. You play poker with the devil, and sometimes you lose. Anywhere, here’s the article

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/4643033.New_law_is_threat_to_lap_dancing/

If you cannot be bothered to read the article, I have summed it up in a few cut and pastes for you

Chris Knight, vice-chairman of the Lap Dancing Association, which has lobbied against the stringent new rules, said: “We run the very real risk of clubs being forced out of business because the licence can be objected to every year on moral grounds.”

Mr Knight, who is operations director of the For Your Eyes Only club in High Street, Southampton, insisted: “We are not selling sex. We are a nightclub offering entertainment. Its titillation and fun.”

“Nobody in the industry wants it. It’s just a cash cow.” (Of course nobody wants it – they have been cashing in on the biggest loop hole in legislitative history for years, why would they possibly want it. What’s the next revalation – WWF wrestling is fixed?)

“My club is opposite the university in the centre of town. There is nothing tawdry or sleazy about it. To say the girls are exploited is an outdated statement. My girls are not exploited in the least.”

That told you!

Government wages war on lapdancing clubs – The Standard

Government wages war on lapdancing clubs

Martin Bentham, Home Affairs Editor
21.09.09

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All existing lap dancing clubs will have to reapply for their licence to operate when new laws to curb their spread come into effect next year, ministers announced today.

The decision means that councils will have the power to order the closure of clubs that are already open if they believe that they are too near to a school or in a similarly inappropriate location.

Local authorities will also be able to shut down existing premises – as well as veto new clubs – if there are already too many in a particular area and to set a wider range of conditions on those that are allowed to open.

Full story here

Footnote : Don’t start putting those poles up yet, Mr Hassan…

Even this would be preferable

Parents’ key concerns… Police cells next to school

A FORMER warehouse opposite a primary school in Holloway is set to be turned into a police detention centre.
British Transport Police want to convert the empty building next door to Robert Blair Primary school into a 20-cell unit with an exercise area just yards from the school.
The 24-hour cells would house British Transport police suspects while they are being held in custody before either being transferred to prison or released.
Islington Council granted outline permission on condition that all prisoners released between 8am and 6pm are escorted to Caledonian Road Tube station.
Sharon Jobe, chairwoman of the nearby Market Road Estate Tenants Association, said she was “appalled” by the scheme. She added: “I’m going to talk to Islington Council about this. It should never have been agreed.”
Parent Sally Rayner said: “There’s been no consultation with parents as far as I know. I’m not at all happy about a centre with potential offenders next to a primary school.”
But not all parents are against the project. Susan Dunsmore said: “We’re already less than 500 yards down the road from Pentonville prison and no one complains about that. There are always lots of police around Brewery Road.”
Labour councillor Paul Convery, chairman of the West Area Planning Committee which unanimously approved the scheme, said: “These people will be driven in and driven out of the centre. I’ve spoken to the school’s head and he’s not worried about it.”
British Transport Police said the site, due to open next May, was chosen because of its proximity to several large rail stations.

4 reasons why a prison is better than a Lap Dancing Bar

1) Escaped prisoners are unlikely to hang around to harrass residents

2) They will probably not be sexually arroused

3) Prostitutes are unlikely to hang around outside a prison – they are more likely to be INSIDE the prison

4) Prisoners have a great sense of humour – have you ever seen Porridge?

Be there on friday to show your support

On friday the final decision will be taken on whether Dentkas Hassan and Serdal Ziya are to be given permission to open a lap dancing bar within spitting distance of an infants school, a children’s charity and the YMCA hostel. We contend (and all the detailed studies ever taken point to this) that this is the most unsuitable location for a Lap Dancing Bar in Britain. Please attend if you can and show your support

Meeting details

7.30pm Friday 25th September

Wood Green Civic Centre, N22

Lap Dancing clubs should be banned – mirror.co.uk

One unwelcome growth area in the past few years has been the rash of lapdancing clubs springing up, often in residential areas.

They are backward-looking and demeaning to women and should have no place in a modern society.

Now the Government is to clamp down on them. It is about time action was taken to curb these sleazy, exploitative clubs.

Telegraph – Lap Dancing clubs to cop it

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/6209571/Ministers-promise-crackdown-on-lap-dancing-clubs.html

Karma – it doesn’t have fists, but it does have legislation

(Apologies for anyone who hasn’t seen ‘My Name is Earl’)

Check near the bottom of the article for a mention of us..

Lap Dancing Asscociation try to buy some support

Money can’t buy you love

Lap-dancing clubs paid lobbyists a five-figure sum to enlist Conservative and Liberal Democrat frontbenchers in their fight against a new licensing regime, The Times has learnt.

The home affairs spokesmen for both parties in the House of Lords tabled a series of amendments designed to water down measures forcing clubs to seek an annual licence as “sex encounter venues”.

Full story

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6840708.ece

Lap-dance clubs ‘threaten equality’

Lap-dance clubs ‘threaten equality’

(UKPA) – 5 hours ago

Women’s equality at work is being threatened by displays of pornography and the use of lap-dancing clubs to entertain clients, a new report has warned.

The Fawcett Society said the sex industry had “infiltrated” the workplace after an “unprecedented” expansion over the past decade.

The campaign group said exposure of employees to pornography at work was “rife”, ranging from the display of pornography and a trend of entertaining clients and staff in lap-dancing clubs.

Research for the Fawcett Society found that 41% of UK lap-dancing clubs directly targeted employers through marketing on their websites.

Most lap-dancing clubs in London provided “discrete receipts” which enabled employees to claim back expenses from their employer, while lads’ mags were displayed for sale in more than 50,000 workplaces, said the report.

There were no independent, compulsory guidelines about the display and sale of pornography, and no major retailer had a policy of covering up lads’ mags or putting them on the top shelf, said the Fawcett Society.

A fifth of men admitted accessing pornography at work.

Kat Banyard, campaigns officer at the Fawcett Society, said: “Despite relative silence on the issue within employer circles, our research shows that the sex industry is a major threat to women’s equality at work.

“For too long, employers have engaged with the sex industry without due regard for the impact on female employees, and have failed to prevent the illicit use of the sex industry by employees in a work context. But this is an issue that employers cannot afford to ignore.”