When is the law not what it seems?

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In recent years the courts in the U.K. bought in tougher jail sentences to punish, mostly men, in domestic abuse cases around relationships, marriages and the kids and stuff. No one wants to see women and kids feel unsafe around men in the family home and they should be afforded full protection by the police and courts. The move was applauded by many. But five years on nothing much has changed as the murder rate remains high in arguing couples and violence in the family on the rise. Cynics would say that by increasing jail sentences for violent men the courts and the government have actually ’discouraged’ women to come forward as much, as men tend to be the wage earners and house or tenancy holders in the family and so women and kids can end up homeless and worse off, if that’s possible, with their partner in jail for five years. Remember that men kill and hurt people through rejection and women kill the people they love. I have no doubt in my mind this legislation was pushed to reduce domestic disputes and family violence callouts that dominate police hours and responses. I say that because we are seeing the same type of disingenuous policing policy with illegal immigrants through so-called anti slavery laws pepped up here. Britain has about a million illegal immigrants, some being process or going through asylum courts, others hidden in plain sight. To me illegal’s that are working here and not claiming welfare don’t bother me as they tend to be doing crap jobs we won’t do and so have a role to play. But recently with Brexit and growing right wing anger the government have been forced to act and have started trying to deport more to be seen doing something. They are closing down those bogus colleges set up to aid illegal workers from Indian here and raiding places notorious for illegals, like those car washes, nail bar, Irish traveller caravan parks and the sex trade. The Irish gypsies do like to use slave labour and genuine targets but we also know foreign nationals use the same heinous exploitation in the vice trade. But although people are being locked up for these crimes the people they are exploiting are often deported and this new anti-slave legislation really about that, a clean legal way to remove people quickly. I personally don’t believe there are that many women exploited by the sex trade and feminist group’s just uncomfortable that some women chose to be in it over having a regular job as greater rewards but a lot of prostitutes are being sent home this way. Foreign women caught working in brothels and seen in the press tend to be ashamed over being actually being trafficked, maybe because they have a drug addiction or their families never knew. What we do know deporting people is a big vote winner and the Prime Minster needs those more than 30-year-old Afghan men from the Calais camps pretending to be 16 to stay in the U.K.