Good news for everyone except perverts

[Fambo Number Mive]

Good to see that upskirting, where perverts stick their phones under people's skirts and take photos, is now a crime after the bill passed its third reading in the House of Lords.

I'm not sure anyone can argue against the bill really. You have to be pretty disgusting to do such a thing.

Upskirting was already a crime in Scotland, and now it will be in England and Wales.

The maximum sentence is two years in prison.

The offence would have been on the statute books earlier if it had passed through the Commons last summer as a private members' bill However, it was thwarted by sole objector, Tory MP Sir Christopher Chope, who makes a point of opposing such private legislation.

[Brundle-Fly]

Tabloid photographers will no longer be able to loiter by taxi ranks outside London nightclubs.

[BlodwynPig]

Chope gonna be chops

[thraxx]

Tabloid photographers will no longer be able to loiter by taxi ranks outside London nightclubs.

Have they banned that too then?

[BlodwynPig]

Never understood it. If I wanted to see a lady's knickers I had three options.

1. Look over fence at neighbours' washing line
2. Go to beach on hot day
3. Department store catalogue lingerie section

[Alberon]

Though to be fair, Chope does that so legislation has to be discussed properly before passing so reducing the risk of seemingly good but actually ill-thought out rubbish getting onto the statute books.

[Funcrusher]

Does this include kilts?

[Alberon]

Does this include kilts?

Well, they are skirts at the end of the day.

[imitationleather]

Never understood it. If I wanted to see a lady's knickers I had three options.

1. Look over fence at neighbours' washing line
2. Go to beach on hot day
3. Department store catalogue lingerie section

Why does that UKIP bloke there was a thread about on here go on and on and on about how he likes Sky News presenters wearing revealing clothes while he's on the internet, which contains almost all hardcore porn ever made (apart from the specialist French stuff you can only get posted over)?

[Buelligan]

[tag]All the perverts in the house go Awwww...[/url]

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

The only potential issues I can see is how easy a miscarriage of justice may occur through a false allegation, conversely, on the part of the victim how difficult such a thing may be to prove, but those are hardly unique to this particular crime.

[Butchers Blind]

Now they've banned upskirts will they ban downblouse?

[Twed]

This doesn't look good for Corbyn

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

"Looking for biscuits."

[Jittlebags]

Ah well, no more need for shoe polish.

[PlanktonSideburns]

when all this shit was going down i remember sending an email to christopher chope (chopec@parliament.uk) to explain my feelings about this, which simply read:

buck up you ponce

so i like to think this is mostly down to me

[popcorn]

One of my old teachers was caught doing this in a shopping centre. Then they found he had loads of hidden cameras in the girls' lavs in the school. Odd to think the initial shopping centre thing was apparently legally fine?

[Dex Sawash]

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[Bazooka]

What if you are wearing a go-pro on your head and you trip and fall under someone's skirt looking up at the same time?

[jobotic]

It's not bad news for all perverts, some of us have different perversions. And they're hardly going to ban traffic cones and apricots are they?

[Chollis]

this country...

[Kelvin]

This doesn't look good for Corbyn

The real reason Margaret Hodge went beserk.

[St_Eddie]

Kinda incredible (and deeply disturbing) that there was ever a time when this wasn't illegal.

[Endicott]

What if you are wearing a go-pro on your head and you trip and fall under someone's skirt looking up at the same time?

Just don't say you're English.

[Howj Begg]

It's not bad news for all perverts, some of us have different perversions. And they're hardly going to ban traffic cones and apricots are they?

zackly. Corbyn is a pervert for justice. He gets very horny thinking about equality.

[poodlefaker]

doesn't look good for Robb's Celebs