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Resisting the use of cliches like 'In my day...' or 'Before all this EU free-movement nonsense...', it seems
the regular reports of something called 'modern-day-slavery' is now well bedded-in on the little clump of
islands known as the United Kingdom.

Could it have been with us for centuries and the lazy media just failed to uncover it...? or is it a fairly new
phenomena that is deemed standard in possibly warmer climes? I know some of the more cynical of us
might presume it's just a headline-grabber and modern-day-slavery is as rare as hen's teeth here in the
West.
After all, we're not Libya.

Whatever the answer is, embracing this facet of multiculturalism may prove difficult for the Brits as we still
have it on the books as illegal.

Boss of Stratford table-dancing club held on suspicion of ‘human trafficking’.



'The owner of a Bollywood-themed table dancing club has been arrested on suspicion of “forced labour
and human trafficking” offences after police alleged they found teenage girls performing there.

Police say a 17-year-old girl was found dancing at Jhankaar Club in Stratford and girls as young as 14 were
suspected of performing there, according to documents submitted to Newham council.
The club, which is next door to The Children’s Society charity, has now lost its alcohol and sexual entertainment
licence pending an appeal.

Owner Mohammed Sethi and a Pakistani woman were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit forced
labour and human trafficking, a council licensing meeting was told on Tuesday. They heard that detectives
discovered three Pakistani women when they raided the venue on September 14.

Pc Gary Watson, from Newham police, said: “One woman told immigration officers she was being held against
her will after being in the UK for five days.”

During a police visit in July, a 17-year-old was found dancing and two other girls, aged 14 and 16, were discovered
in “full make-up” in a bed upstairs, the meeting was told. It is a breach of the club’s licence for people under 18 to be
in a sexual entertainment venue. 

Barrister James Rankin, on behalf of the Met, said: “An officer found two girls upstairs in bed ... wearing full stage
make-up with glitter. They denied [they had been dancing].” Mr Sethi failed to provide CCTV from the club and has
claimed it has “gone missing”, Mr Rankin added. 
The hearing heard Mr Sethi and the woman had been bailed “pending further inquiries”.

Newham’s licensing committee revoked the licence for the Jhankaar Club but said The Refreshment Room  on the
ground floor of the building could remain open. Mr Sethi did not attend the hearing but his son Imran told the Standard:
“Dancers are not allowed to touch the customers. There is nothing of that nature.”

Mr Sethi denies the allegations and said in a statement that he was arrested on suspicion of “conspiracy to commit
slavery, servitude or forced or compulsory labour” and not human trafficking. He added: “The two young people in my
flat were asleep on their own wearing no make-up, and were not, nor ever had been, clothed in dancing attire.”

A Home Office spokesman refused to comment...'

Evening Standard:

However, one swallow does not a summer make and so with the assistance of a anti-slavery Commissioner, the UK
is looking into this unique modern-day British custom.

Maybe some would look for references like original nationality or religious beliefs for clues into who is perpetrating this
terrible business or even dare to align migration and slavery-trade as possible indicator to solve this problem.
I'm not an investigator, so it's beyond me.

Slavery in Britain: the photographer documenting the streets where people have been held.



About 13,000 people are kept in slavery in the UK. Amy Romer’s book The Dark Figure* reveals
the terrifying ordinariness of the sites of their captivity.

'In 2013, a 22-year-old Hungarian woman responded to an online ad for a babysitting job in London and,
after a telephone interview, was offered the post. When she arrived in Budapest to travel to London, she
was met by three men who confiscated her mobile, drove her to Slovakia and forced her on to a coach
bound for Manchester.

There was no babysitting job. Instead, the woman had been “bought” for £3,500 by a Pakistani man and was
told to prepare for marriage. After being held captive at various Manchester addresses, she finally alerted the
police from a house in Cunliffe Street, Chorley, where she was rescued and later repatriated home...'

SOURCE:

UK's biggest modern slavery ring uncovered: Victims forced to wash in canals and work for coffee and chicken.

'The largest-ever UK modern slavery ring, which forced more than 400 people to work for a pittance while their criminal
masters earned £2 million, has been smashed.  A three-year police investigation uncovered a well-organised criminal
gang led by the Brzezinski family - which preyed on the homeless, ex-prisoners and alcoholics, from Poland.

The ring lured and then trafficked vulnerable victims to the UK with the promise of good money, but instead housed them in
squalor, and used them as what a judge described as "commodities".

Victims were paid as little as 50p for a day's labour and in one case a worker was given coffee and a chicken as payment
for redecorating a house. Another man had to wash in a canal because he had no other access to water, while one house's
leaky toilet had to be plugged with an old duvet, such was the standard of disrepair.
One victim, describing "horrible" living conditions, said: "I would say some homeless people here in the UK live better than
I lived after I arrived over here."

Victims were reduced to recycling used cigarette butts off the street, and going to soup kitchens and food banks to get enough
to eat. Meanwhile, the gang's bosses lived the high life off the backs of those they exploited, sporting lavish clothes, and driving
luxury cars, including a Bentley.

After the end of two trials, it can now be reported how five men and three women, all originally from Poland, exploited their
destitute victims for pure "greed". They have all now been convicted of modern slavery offences and money laundering.

Jurors heard the accounts of more than 90 victims, but it is believed at least 350 more had been through the gang's hands,
who had since either returned to their homeland, could not be traced, or were too scared to come forward.

At the end of the second case last month, a jury at Birmingham Crown Court convicted two men, 52-year-old Ignacy Brzezinski,
of Beechwood Road, West Bromwich, and Wojciech Nowakowski, 41, of James Turner Street, Birmingham, of modern slavery
offences. A third, Jan Sadowski, 26, of Dartmouth Street, West Bromwich, admitted his part on the first day of trial.

At a previous trial ending in February, leading conspirator Marek Chowanic, along with Ignacy's cousin, Marek Brzezinski,
recruitment consultant Julianna Chodakiewicz, Natalia Zmuda and Justyna Parczewska, the group's matriarch, were all
convicted of their roles.

At the first trial sentencing, Judge Mary Stacey said their "degradation" of fellow human beings had been "totally unacceptable",
jailing the five for between 11 and four-and-a-half years. She said the defendants had subjected victims to a "demi-life of misery
and poverty", robbing them of their dignity and humanity "without care or regard for the rights of the individuals affected".

She added: "Any lingering complacency after the 2007 bi-centenary celebrations of the abolition of the English Slave Trade Act
was misplaced. "The hard truth is that the practice continues, here in the UK, often hiding in plain sight."

Together the group helped in the targeting and trafficking of people from their Polish homeland, placing them in cramped,
rat-infested accommodation in the Black Country and putting them to work on farms, rubbish recycling centres and poultry
factories. In some cases, the gang waited outside the front gates of jails in Poland, to approach ex-cons who had just been
released.

Victims, aged 17 to over 60, were housed across at least nine different addresses in West Bromwich, Walsall, Sandwell and
Smethwick, crammed up to four to a room, fed out-of-date food, and forced to scavenge for mattresses to sleep on.
Some had no working toilets, heating or furniture. If any complained, gang enforcers would humiliate, threaten or beat them
up, while "house spies" -previously trafficked individuals turned trusted informers -kept an eye on the workers.

On several occasions, anti-slavery investigators with charity Hope for Justice, and West Midlands Police, uncovered shocking
brutality against those who stepped out of line. One man who complained about living conditions and pay had his arm broken,
was refused medical care, and then ejected from the accommodation because his injury left him unable to work.
Another was stripped naked in front of other workers, doused in surgical chemical iodine, and told that the gang would remove
his kidneys if he did not keep quiet.

The gang seized identity cards, registered victims for National Insurance and opened bank accounts in the victims' names using
bogus addresses, while their criminal masters also claimed benefits without their knowledge. The ring also infiltrated a recruitment
agency, meaning work could be directly sourced, without raising suspicions with third parties.

Victims would in some cases be "frog-marched" to cash points, to withdraw money and told they owed debts for transport costs,
rent and food, the charity said. When one worker died of natural causes at an address controlled by the gang, Parczewska ordered
that his ID and personal effects be removed from his pockets before paramedics arrived.

Judge Stacey said the conspiracy, which ran from June 2012 until October 2017, was the "most ambitious, extensive and prolific"
modern day slavery network ever uncovered. Investigators believe it is the largest such criminal prosecution of its type in Europe,
to date...'

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Yes it's a puzzle, it seems that criminal acts we deemed almost forgotten in 'In my day...' or 'Before all this EU free-movement
nonsense...' is back and a darker part of the UK's culture. Anyway, AOC says we'll all be dead in twelve years, so what's the point
of worrying, eh?