Scottish Green MSP Maggie Chapman says there is "another way". "Full decriminalisation of sex work, of purchase and of running locations where sex work happens, can create the space for collective safety."

Why doesn’t Chapman do it if it’s so awesome?

How did that pan out in Spain, Maggie?

That woman has no shame, no sense, no compassion and no brains

trans toddlers , brothels on the high st , legalize crack if you vote green your likely to be a ..... or an imbecile

If it's just a job like any other, why don't you do it @MaggieChapman? Will you have it included in schools careers guidance sessions? Will you have it offered as work experience for young people?

@awaywithefay Decriminalising = more trafficking & more dead women.

I hadn't realised that being able to buy sex was so important to her.

She is a nutjob. A zoomer. An eejit. Unelected, unelectable and unemployable in the real world, how the hell did we ever ended up with this carpetbagging monstrosity holding sway about how we live in our wee country? Beats me.

As someone rather brilliantly said, she’s suggesting government run Scotch brothels.

If sex work is "just work", why do sex workers need safe spaces? What other line of work has such a requirement?

So-called "full decrim" doesn't fully decriminalize people in prostitution. It does not create "safe work places" or universal social and health insurance coverage, women do not have labour contracts or unions with bargain power. Its a total pipe dream.

Maggie should try doing 'sex work' for six months - no training required. Let's hear her views then. In the meantime I'm looking forward to her being removed from parliament at the earliest opportunity.

She is an absolute horror.

Dreadful woman, has spent her entire time in parliament campaigning for the sexual rights of men. Ugh.

"Locations where sex work happens" is a bit long-winded. Why not just say "comfort stations"?

I hate this calamitously stupid c*nt SOOOOOO fucking much. She's not one of us. She knows nothing about us. She's a wilfully despicable human being. Get her to fuck

She would have been lobotomised in the 1940’s.

Thank goodness Maggie is there to root for the men who want to pay to rape women.

How about creating the economic and social conditions where no-one feels that they have no option but to go out and work as a prostitute, eh, @MaggieChapman ? #FuckWit

Will it be as successful as the drug consumption rooms? (For success please of course substitute catastrophic)

Being fair prostitution will be the only employment available to Maggie after the next election. And realistically I cannot see it being lucrative.

She's a gormless but dangerous individual. She is hopefully unlikely to be returned at the election and I hope isn't employed anywhere she can harm anyone.

That utter lunatic is gone in May. Not top of the Green list in the NE anymore. Trouble is she’ll likely be replaced by another equally unhinged green moonhowler…

Locations where sex work happens. Is she fucking mad?

Maggie Chapman is either woefully ignorant or actively malicious. New Zealand, the first country to embrace total market libertarianism of women's bodies, has suffered 8 sex industry homicides since 2003. Sweden has had zero since 1999 (and with twice the population!)

Apologies to the ladies but ...that sounds like the setting up of whore houses. Are the Greens looking for a new source of income? What is it about selling women that attracts the Green party?

Like the Nevada chicken ranches, except they'll be in our town centres, full of trafficked women, still run by pimps. She needs booted out in May.

This women is a stranger to common sense. She cant be well, surely…..

I guess she just wants another legal injection site. Bit for dicks instead of smack this time

She clearly thinks not like any sane person

It's not work it's exploitation.

That worked well...

So are they welcome in Unison?

We'd all have to get used to seeing prostitutes on the high street and a brothel a few streets over. That's what it's like in NZ. It is grim.

This woman is a deranged pervert. Change my mind.