Censorship.

Allegedly the English Collective of Prostitutes are being censored. You could’ve fooled me, every time prostitution gets even the most vague mention in the media an ECP rep is there pushing their agenda.

Question - how is the ECP funded?

Question - how is their leadership elected?

Question - what percentage, if any, of their membership are or have been in prostitution?

Question - how do the ECP decide on their political agenda and group policies - is it after consultation with actual prostitute women or is it a policy decided thirty years ago by non prostitutes and stuck to mercilessly without further discussion?

I think it is both negligent and naive on the behalf of the government, socialist organisations, the media, and whoever else, that this group are presented as representative of prostitutes views and needs, when not even the most basic information about the ECP is known. Noone is asking for members names - but if the group is to be believed and trusted then they should need to do more than simply name themselves the spokespeople for prostitutes in England.

As for censorship - the Socialist Unity blog censored my comments and questions regarding their position on prostitution and the ECP, after they themselves had put a post up claiming that the activists who organised the International Women’s Day demonstration in London had censored a Trade Union speaker who was allegedly there to represent “sex workers”. So there you have it folks, Trade Union reps should be allowed to talk for women in prostitution, it is just a job after all! but those of us with some experience of it who dont consider it a job and name it as abuse and exploitation had best shut the fuck up.