Everybody Knew About Sweatshops

[sinderella]

[ProfessorMaisie]

This is the slavery that needs to be urgently addressed, not the ''history of...'' and it's another issue that's been swept under the carpet for decades - just like the grooming scandal.
I'm sure the BBC investigated this aspect of Leicester life as far back as the mid 1980's but I don't think it was ever screened - a pity because it can't have been as bad as this back then (the situation now is truly appalling).
Of course, 'slave labour votes Labour' - and Leicester is a Labour stronghold but, somehow, it will all be the fault of the Tories.

Thanks for posting this, sinderella - I don't think you'll get much of an audience here, but at least you tried.

[Bobbisox1]

It's appalling that this has gone on and those responsible should have charges against them ,whatever the politics is , is irrelevant

[ABSpareEditor]

I have moved this thread into the category "News".

[douglas9401]

Backhanders all round lads.

Let's have some of the spivs in the big cars rounded up and put on trial, unless it goes a lot deeper than just a few unscrupulous traders in which case it'll just fizzle out.

Nothing to see here, move along now.

Again.

[webbo3]

Nail bars
Car washes.
sweatshops
Fruit and veg picking
Modern day slavery in the UK now, not 200 years ago.

Modern slave markets in Libya, children mining cobalt.
I wonder how many people taking a knee have a mobile phone or electric car.
https://news.sky.com/story/meet-dorsen-8-who-mines-cobalt-to-make-your-smartphone-work-10784120

Hypocrites...

[ProfessorMaisie]

How can the politics be irrelevant, Bobbisox1?

Don't think for a moment that I believe the Tories are blameless, I was a Labour voter until the party was taken over by Momentum (and I'll be so again once they're rooted out).

For nigh on 40 years Leicester has been controlled by a Labour council, and this disgusting practice still thrives there - right out in the open (as the man said - 'It's not flying under the radar - it is the radar!'). Who do you think is to blame?

[Bobbisox1]

That's for the courts to decide P Maisie , I was also a die hard Labour Party voter till they moved further and further to the left

[ProfessorMaisie]

It's politics that stops it getting anywhere near a courtroom - just as it was with the grooming scandal, until very recently (and even now it looks more like a PR exercise than justice).

[royfromaus]

Perhaps this answers how Vaz acquired a multi million pound property portfolio?

[Deskdiary]

If these sweatshops are such an open secret, what did Keith Vaz, do about it and what is Claudia Webbe doing?

Actually, thinking about, given how slimey and crooked Vaz was, I suspect he was a regular recipient of brown envelopes from the sweatshop owners.

[Mozz71]

This is shocking and uterly deplorable. If it is investigated, and found to be true, anyone in politics (regardless of their party) who knew about it must have the book thrown at them.

Despicable.

[Old_Geezer]

Everybody knew ?
Clearly untrue. I had no idea Leicester supported slavery, for one.

If true, why hasn't there been a drains up on it ages ago ? What have the police been doing ?

[TonyV]

My local hand car wash only employ Polish workers have no problem with this, they have a caravan inside which I am sure people live in .this, although they say it is a "rest room"

[Cloverjo]

Apparently, lots of these workers were happy with the terrible wages because they could get benefits on top and work fewer hours for more money.
This doesn’t excuse the sleazy bosses of course.

[Tashi]

When I was living in South London a few of my Indian friends worked in two local sweatshops, they were happy because of what was said at 2046.

[Mamyalynne]

Dreadful that these awful working and living conditions are widely known about but allowed to carry on.

[douglas9401]

Employers may only think they're bringing a bit of the old country to Merrie England, stave off the homesickness.

[237SJ]

The public are partly to blame. If they didn`t want to pay peanuts for goods, the sweatshops wouldn't exist.

[Gromit]

I didn’t know about sweatshops in Leicester.
I know that a lot of northern (and midlands) towns have textile making quarters. And the people there work very hard. It could be exploitative, but not really illegal.
The idea that they (might) be corona hotspots is dubious and not proven. And the connection to sweatshops just speculation.