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I was trying (badly) to make the point of slavery/racism having many outlets. The moral indignation in the racism in south america thread feels hypocritical when the modern day slavery iin Leicester s ignored, possi6 because the issue in Leicester sheds light on the downside of eu policy on free movement but as I've stated it's unfair to clog up another thread when its elsewhere on the forum.

I'm not lying, there has been a distinct lack of comment on the exposure of the slavery in Leicester, probably because of the role the eu free movement has played in enabling modern day slavery to flourish. It's unfair to clog up another thread so I will leave it there.

No he makes a fair point, this is where the government has a stick or twist decision regarding free movement. Does it enforce a rigorous policy to stop the influx of cheap labour? Easier said than done, plus you are then biting of your nose to spite your face so to speak as immigrants in general give a great boost to the country culturally and economically. One small push in the fight against modern slavery is the power of the consumer, and the change exposure brings, ie that firm in Leicester with the billionaire owers has thankfully lost a lot of money in share value, if these firms/organised criminals (there is not much between the two) are put to the coals instead of being left to operate in a haze of public sedation the exploitation continues unabated. https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/charity-police-break-up-uks-largest-modern-slavery-ring-victims-worked-in-farms-allegedly-supplying-uk-retailers-supermarkets

Thanks, why didnt you tell me before? , Poverty is a reason is it? Poverty? I thought they travelled for the brutish experience of chicken tikka masala and kids me quick hats. I would never have guessed, god your good, and soooooo intelligent as I'm sure you've told yourself not enough times.. Any other reason oh super sage? Oh organised crime you say!!! You say organised criminals are involved? In slavery? Are you sure? Well fuck me who would have thought? I wouldnt have, It will would not have crossed my tiny little fucking mind, why didnt you tell me this enlightening fucking dribble earlier oh nauseating one? Have you contacted the authorities? Please do Marginalised people can be a cause for the increased slavery due to loads of gangmasters sending people to work in sweatshops, really ? Well well well, you really are a thunderbolt of the fucking obvious arnt you my little petal, a real fountain of idiotic piss are you not? Keep your sanctaminios shrilling for dissing Corbyn on the other thread as you promised Numerous.

I support the slavery in Leicester. It’s better that the life they had before. At least they’re in Britain now. At least they have jobs in this Covid world. On the other hand, I can’t stand these foreigners coming over here, stealing our slavery jobs.

No need to concern ourselves, wrong type of slavery, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/05/world/europe/uk-modern-slavery.html

Once more for those at the back who weren't listening: You don't improve workers' rights by taking rights away from workers. You don't protect vulnerable migrant workers by making migrant work illegal: that only hands power to the slavers. You don't earn your Socialist stripes by parrotting xenophobic Tory policies. https://www.antislavery.org/slavery-today/slavery-uk/

Yes I did read the article and if you want I can fire a few more at you regarding free movement and slavery. Its grim reading and has happening throughout Europe for years but that must be the worst kept secret of the age. It's all grand for the eu to put spout bullshit when the low cost of the trading of peoples is the cause and has been for a long time. It stinks and people seem to condone it? As for the posters negging me for raising the very legitimate case of modern day slavery in Britain today. Have you no concept that as we speak people are working 14 hour days for as little as 3 quid an hour? If you condone that you need to get a fucking grip or go fuck yourself. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/03/leicester-coronavirus-lockdown-is-no-surprise-to-its-garment-factory-workers

The eu protected them, didnt they? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/boohoo-leicester-factories-modern-slavery-boohoo-leicester-factories-modern-slavery-investigation-a9602086.html

Thats easy. Leaving the eu weakens the eu as a whole and after the past 30 odd years of this neo con nonsense which has seen a massive spike in European inequality. Hopefully the whole shitshow will combust. Hopefully the next generation will.tear down all remnants of those in the eu complicit in Slavery, https://www.politico.eu/article/labor-trafficking-exploitation-modern-day-slavery-on-the-rise-in-europe-report/

It’s not a song celebrating slavery but a song about hope that was sung on the Underground Railroad about being carried away from slavery? Or am I misreading the history? I stand to be corrected.

The "offending" scene in Fawlty Towers equates racist language with being an unhinged daft dotard. Nowt wrong with that at all. If you really wanted to take offence with Fawlty Towers, the insulting stereotype of a Spanish waiter is front and centre every episode. As for Gladstone, Baden Powell, Churchill, etc. you have to ask what the statues are commemorating; respectively, being a long-serving Prime Minister, founding the Boy Scouts and being the wartime PM. Whatever else those people may have done, the statues aren't there to celebrate those things. The bloke in Bristol and the one in East London (as far as I can see) did nothing except profit from slavery. Those two can fuck off. The statues reflect on what society, in general, thinks is worth commemorating. They are put on a pedestal, so you can literally look up to them and say "nice one!" I think it's fair to say that, most of us, would consider leading the country through the war and founding the Boy Scouts are things people can still look up to, but slavery isn't.

That fucking cunt would bring back slavery if he could. He would 100% have been one of them lord of the manor cunts with slaves in his fields. The mere thought of abolishing slavery would send him into a furious meltdown and he would try to sure anyone who suggested it.

I agree. I've been labour all my life but when the right start making more sense you have to wonder... The hypocrisy is the bit I'm having real difficulty with but it seems like others are happy to gloss it over. I mean if we want to talk slavery, wheres the modern movement to remove human trafficking, grooming gangs, forced labour and child slavery? And what about the biggest killer of black people in the United States? Oh that would be Black People. 90% in fact. Oh and what about the Black Cop who died the other week, Underwood, who died defending a building? Or the many ethnic business owners who lost their livelihoods through the riots? Not a fucking peep. And you know why? Because it doesn't further the goal or the agenda. In the States this is being weaponised by the left against the right for the ferocious desire to remove Trump, just like they've done with Covid. A political war thats as bad as I've ever seen it, the dislike by both groups is truly off the scale. And it stinks. Now i don't give a crap about Trump either way but it also shows that there is no real desire for change by the people who could do something about it. If Biden gets in he won't change a thing, just watch. Politicians really don't give a shit. To be honest the whole thing is a shitshow, no one wins, it just fractures communities more and more. The States does have a problem still, but I don't believe its the same over here at all. Its my kids and future generations i feel sorry for.

Well that's plainly nonsense, worker exploitation/modern day slavery has been flagged up by luminaries far more worthy than someone like me.

I never said you're in a bubble of one on here; I said you're in a bubble of one globally, on the subject of slavery.

What does slavery have to do with that story?

When you have a contributor who thinks labelling the EU as a slavery operation amounts to slight criticism, it's time to walk away.

Stupid question undeserving of an answer when the issue raised in the guardian report is a focus on the exploitation of workers in meat factory's in the UK and Europe. I'm talking cunts who own factory's like in the link below, cunts whom cunts like you defend. "Devon 2 Sisters factory hit by 'key worker' strike involving 170 employees - Devon Live" https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/devon-2-sisters-factory-hit-4028476.amp What is about some supporters of the EU that makes it impossible for them to even address an issue of people slavery never mind offer any form of criticism?

From the Tory cunt who defended billionaires paying workers bare wages in meat shops I veiw abuse from people such as you as a compliment. Anything to say on the guardian report I've linked on modern day slavery in meat factory's tory boy? No? Hit a raw nerve?

Someone's making money in the modern day slavery game, "Revealed: exploitation of meat plant workers rife across UK and Europe | Meat industry | The Guardian" https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/28/revealed-exploitation-of-meat-plant-workers-rife-across-uk-and-europe Shall we just continue to pretend it doesn't really happen whilst the Conservative party walk another election? Can't be a modern day Labour Party member and be too critical of billionaire meat factory owners in this country can we? Conflict of interest.

I did that for a summer (not specifically with kids with disabilities, just entitled American children). I made some great friends and had a ball travelling afterwards but fuck me, what a grind of a job. Long days, virtually no time off and proper wage slavery.

I reckon Anti-Slavery International must also be naive, because their report "Brexit and the UK's Fight Against Modern Slavery" contains some of the stuff I've been saying here.

Angry I believe you're a good man with good intentions but you must be naive or not dare I say it not very 'street wise' on this subject, everyone knows the awful conditions these capitalist gangmasters put these poor people into yet you seem to condone it, some of the working hours pay, rights and conditions are as this article states " shocking" https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/shocking-extent-of-modern-slavery-in-agriculture-revealed Dress it up all you like this is modern day slavery.

Well, well, well... 'A damning new report on trafficking in the UK has warned that Brexit and the Home Office’s new plan for immigration are increasing the risks to trafficking victims. The report has also found links between terrorism and trafficking in cases involving families from the UK ending up with Islamic State in Syria and an increase in the recruitment of trafficking victims via social media. Thousands of potential trafficking victims held in immigration centres, data shows The influential Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (Greta), part of the 47-nation Council of Europe, monitors the implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, which came into force in the UK in April 2009. The number of possible victims of trafficking referred to the UK’s national referral mechanism (NRM) has grown tenfold, from 1,182 in 2012 to 10,627 in 2019. The number of referrals in 2020 was 10,613. The proportion of male victims referred to the NRM has increased over the years: of the possible victims in 2019, 68% (7,224) were male and 32% (3,391) were female. In 2019, possible victims of 125 different nationalities were referred to the NRM. The largest number of referrals were for UK nationals, accounting for 27% of the total, followed by Albania, Vietnam, China and India. ... The Greta report states that “Brexit has heightened the risk of exploitation for EU workers” and warns that victims of slavery may have difficulty applying for the EU settlement scheme. It adds: “Frontline and migrant organisations have noted that the offence of illegal working, part of the UK’s hostile environment for undocumented migrants, acts as a major driver of exploitation and a barrier to justice.' https://www.theguardian.com/law/2021/oct/20/brexit-and-uk-immigration-policy-increasing-risks-to-trafficking-victims