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21-03-2019, 12:33 AM
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Probaby not .
The cynic in me says it a way of getting influence .
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21-03-2019, 12:44 AM
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Talking of slavery, I received a message from Neighbourhood Watch and Police this evening, and it seems there were 260 acts of slavery reported in Bedfordshire alone, last year.


Here is part of the newsletter:


"More than 260 cases of modern slavery were identified in Bedfordshire last year, new figures show, prompting renewed calls for the public to keep their eyes open for signs of criminal exploitation.

The number of potential victims of modern slavery passed through to the national referral mechanism (NRM) in the Bedfordshire Police area was the fifth highest of all police force areas in the UK.

More referrals were made in Bedfordshire last year than across the whole of Scotland. "
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21-03-2019, 12:56 AM
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They were talking about the large number of child slaves in Britain on the radio today. It's shocking that while we sit here in comfort typing there are children in this country being imprisoned and abused.
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21-03-2019, 07:24 AM
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Where are these children coming from ?
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21-03-2019, 12:19 PM
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As with "poverty" it's worth examining the word slavery. Whilst there is absolutely no doubt that in some --- cultures --- traditional slavery is taking place in the UK, and Europe though to a less extent, the vast majority of so called slavery is what was formally called exploitation but calling it slavery creates in the mind of people who read the word to visualise a thing taking place that just isn't so.

Typical socialist abuse of language.
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21-03-2019, 01:37 PM
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Does it include all slaves or just black ones?
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21-03-2019, 01:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Muddy ->
Where are these children coming from ?
Often brought in by Aunts or Uncles from other countries, here we saw a case of kids from Albania, came in legally through EU channels but when here were sold to a local couple, when raided they had 4 young women in their basement kitchen living in cupboards working for scraps of food. Not sure how long they had been there, someone said months but could have been years.
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Originally Posted by oneandonly ->
Does it include all slaves or just black ones?
Good question.
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21-03-2019, 07:47 PM
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We the British were responsible for the black slave to the West Indies .

Terrible as it was the descendants of those slaves are probaby better off now than they would be if living in Africa .

Not all of Britain was guilt of slave trading .

At the time my ancestors were slaves themselves working down coal mines.
 
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