One of the lesser reported manifesto pledges of the Labour Party prior to its regrettable election last summer was its solemn promise to “halve violence against women and girls” within a decade – a strangely specific and unachievable promise, if you ask me. How does Labour actually plan to do this? By naïve and utopian technocratic means, as ever, such as the introduction of “domestic abuse specialists” (expert wife-beaters, perchance?) inside 999 control rooms.
Call me a cynic, but I just don’t believe such near-pointless measures will end up having the desired effect Labour imagines (or pretends to imagine) they will. And yet, when it comes to promising to “halve violence against women and girls” across the UK within the next decade, there is one single, simple, silver-bullet policy the Labour Party could indeed enact in order to vastly reduce such appalling social ills.
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