So we should be welcoming this?
In Britain, the authorities are now reporting the forced marriage of girls as young as nine years old on British soil. We are not talking about one case, but several, which take place under official protection.
Am I reading this correctly? My interpretation is that the author is claiming HMG is protecting pedo marriages. If so, I'm not exactly willing to take that on faith. In other words, citation needed.
You're reading it correctly, the problem is that they aren't writing it correctly, it's somewhat a selective use of facts. The Government are aware that children as young as 9 are being promised into wedlock by their parents despite laws to the contrary, and the Law is having a hard time dealing with it because it's, quite obviously, not something that is made public knowledge. What that report has done is selectively take the information and word it in such a way as to make it look like a difficulty to act upon is equal to supporting the concept of.
That's always the problem of trying to sensationalise something which has, in its projection through a tabloid paper
already been sensationlised once, the story gets blown up into something else entirely. You already noted that article doesn't even link its sources.
Edit: It's kind of like when the UK Government wanted to move the point of taxation from the workplace to a centralised system and people (notably outside the UK) claimed that the Government were going to give people 'what they think you can live on', which was complete bollocks, it was nothing of the sort, but that sounds much more sensational and judgemental.
