The Slaves Of Leicester, But The Wrong Colour For BLM.

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Call me a butt-hole but I do not buy the racial sensitivities bit. Sorry.

BLM ignoring this? Sure. Not what they get paid to do. (Are the brown shirt factories by any chance?)

It's money. Always has been with cheap, immigrant labor. Keep the factory in your country, just import the labor versus
moving the whole thing somewhere else. Then you would have to compete with China and their ambitions abroad.
Much safer in Ol' Blighty. 

P.S. Did I use the blighty part right?

You're not a butt-hole and yes, your 'Ol' Blighty' mention was in the correct form!!


The Leicester 'factories' -and I'm being generous there because the conditions, wages and many other conditions
that other manufacturing companies abide by in O' Blighty, are not adhered to and these places have been around
a long time.
In the city of Leicester, there's estimated between 200 and 250 sweatshops and yet since 2012, only six of these
have been held accountable.

Many of these workers are living in homes with as many as 15 to 20 people to a four-bed house, houses usually
owned by the boss of these sweatshops and really converted from two-bedroomed abodes.
Authorities aren't sure of who are living there and where they came from.

In 2010, Channel 4 sent an undercover reporter to investigate this twilight economy. It did so again in 2017.
Both times, the reporter earned illegal wages for employment in factories.

Here's a woman's account who worked in one of these places in 1993.



The overtly-diverse BBC did an article on a dominantly 'Asian' employees going on strike at the Imperial Typewriter
Company in Leicester. This was in 1974 and during Trade Union money-grabs. However, the same organisations
commented that the workers at Imperial Typewriters "have no legitimate grievances"!
Imperial Typewriters closed a year later.

But the decaying Imperial Typewriters building is now home to several textile factories and was raided in 2011 by Border
Agency staff. The Sun newspaper reported in 2020:

'It was business as usual for the poor factory workers servicing Britain’s high street fashion industry today.
Heads bowed as they shuffled wearily from the hulking red brick buildings that dot Leicester’s garment districts
to the east of the city, the mainly Indian and Eastern European migrants seemed oblivious to the government order
to stay at home.

But it was what lurked inside the factories that was most concerning law abiding locals who are desperate to stop
coronavirus from spreading. The Sun today heard stories of ‘slave labour’ workers being paid just £2.50 an hour to
toil in unsanitary conditions where they are made to put their lives on the line on a daily basis and cramped, terraced
homes stuffed with multiple families and up to a dozen people.

People are allowed to work in factories under Matt Hancock's current restrictions, but it's up to business owners to
shut down in a bid to halt the spread. One business owner running a shop in the North Evington area of Leicester
–where there are said to be 1,000 modern sweatshops –today called for the police to intervene before the situation
gets even worse.

The man, who asked not to be named, told The Sun: “It’s crazy what is happening in these factories.
These men and women are decent, hard working people but they are risking their lives to produce clothes for big fashion
brands right here in the UK.

“It’s is wrong but no one is doing anything to put a stop to it. The police should go into the factories and close them down.
“The workers come into my shop and tell me that it is not safe for them because they are working close together with no
PPE, but what can they do?

“They have rent and bills to pay and they want to make new lives for themselves in this country.
What they are doing is slave labour, there is no other word for it.
"They are only getting £2.50 an hour and they make so little money they have to live with 10 others in two or three bedroom
houses.

“The places they live in are disgusting, totally unfit for human beings. If you step inside you have to wear a mask and even
then you are probably going to catch something. I know this is the truth because they have told me it themselves.”

The same shop owner said most of the factory workers are from the Daman and Goa areas of India where they are able to
get Portuguese passports that allow them free access to the UK. A large number also come from Eastern European countries
like Romania where they are willing to work long hours for pittance...'

It's an ongoing problem and due to today's politically-correct environment, those who have the power to solve it daren't and
probably benefit from its continuation.


(By the way, Imperial Typewriters was acquired in 1966 by Litton Industries, named after Sir Charles Littton.
Litton's was a large defense contractor in the United States. During the UK recession of the early eighties, Litton Industries
increased their profits from $44 million in 1979 to $78 million in 1983.
Eventually, they were absorbed into Northrop Grumman of Beverly Hills, California.

Now, equate the above with a textile sweatshop that makes knock-off clothing inside a delapidated building in Leicester.
It's how the world turns, I suppose!)

Isn't this the same country able to detect if your TV isn't properly licensed? The same country with umpteen thousand closed circuit cameras? The same place who has been in and out of court with their mass surveillance programs of their population? Yet, over decades they can't find scores of giant buildings in one city churning out truck loads of textiles on a daily basis. That doesn't pass the smell test. 

We have the same issue in the US with undocumented workers. Nothing against the folks doing the work. If their ill-protection "under the law" wasn't facilitated by a cabal of schmucks in important positions, they wouldn't be there.