Christchurch MP is sole objector to proposal to make it a crime to take photos up skirts
A bill which would make upskirting a specific criminal offence punishable by up to two years in prison has been blocked in the House of Commons after a single Conservative MP objected to it.
The voyeurism (offences) bill on upskirting – the taking of surreptitious, sexually intrusive photographs – was put forward by the Liberal Democrat MP Wera Hobhouse following a campaign by Gina Martin. Police have declined to prosecute a man whom Martin accused of taking underskirt pictures of her on his phone at a music festival in Hyde Park in London last summer.
As a private member’s bill it would normally have little chance of becoming law. But early on Friday the justice minister Lucy Frazer said the government would back the bill.
However, when the deputy speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, read out the name of the bill later that day, the Conservative MP Christopher Chope shouted: “Object”. Without sufficient time in the sessions for a proper vote it was sent back for another try on 6 July.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... rting-bill
Why has this right wing scum objected?
Probably another Tory perve.