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

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The only thing that surprises me is that the headline uses the word 'was'! It's still going on and will continue.
(Why do you think the illegal Channel crossings are allowed.)

Illegal work in Leicester 'sweatshops' was allowed to flourish 'due to fear of racism claims'

*Boohoo made an investigation after accusations were made about staff salaries 
*Claims were made that workers in a Leicester factory are paid £3.50 an hour
*An MP said that these conditions have occurred due to 'racial sensitivities'
*Labour MP Claudia Webbe said she raised concerns about this in March 

'Illegal conditions in Leicester’s fast fashion sweatshops have been allowed to persist because of officials’
‘racial sensitivities’, an MP has claimed.

Mass-exploitation has been an ‘open secret’ for years with one report revealing up to 90 per cent of workers
are not paid the minimum wage. Over the last five years, there have been four separate reports – including
two by parliamentary committees – acknowledging poor working environments, very low wages and exploitation
of vulnerable migrants in ‘slave’ conditions.


Inside one of the factories and MP Claudia Webbe.

Yesterday, HMRC – which investigates minimum wage law violations – came under fire after it emerged action
was taken against just six clothing factories in the city between 2012 and 2018. 

A Home Office source told The Sunday Times: ‘HMRC has been asleep on this issue for ages. They are too busy
going after Mrs Miggins. They do not do enough.’ Tory MP Andrew Bridgen likened the failure to clean up the
sweatshops to the failure to tackle child sex grooming gangs in towns and cities such as Bradford and Rotherham
for fear of racism.

Mr Bridgen, who represents North West Leicestershire, said: ‘There has been a total systemic failure by the organisations
supposed to protect the public and those who work at these factories. Some of it is down to racial sensitivities, and the
same as the child abuse situation.’

Former North West chief crown prosecutor Nazir Afzal, who led prosecutions of child sex grooming gangs in Rochdale,
said: ‘I think the desire for cultural sensitivity has played a part in what we’ve seen in Leicester but there are other issues
as well. The broader issues are that the authorities don’t have the resources [to investigate].’

Leicester East Labour MP Claudia Webbe said: ‘It’s such an open secret that no one took any notice when I raised the
issue during my maiden speech in March. Nothing ever gets done about it.’ Concerns about Leicester’s sweatshops
resurfaced after fears a resurgence of coronavirus in the city may be linked to working conditions in the clothing factories
used by internet retailers including Boohoo.

The first report documenting poor working conditions was published in 2015 by Leicester University. 
It described ‘excessive working hours, poor health and safety, health problems, verbal abuse, bullying, threats and humiliation’.

The report, led by academic Dr Nik Hammer, blamed subcontracting to small, unregulated factories and pressure in the
industry to keep costs to a minimum. Non-payment of the £8.72 per hour National Minimum Wage was ‘endemic’.
The average wage was found to be £3 an hour, applying to ‘75-90 per cent of jobs’.

Immigrants made ‘vulnerable’ due to their poor English and lack of residency status were exploited, with the workforce
‘regularly replenished’ through new arrivals.

A 2017 report by the joint parliamentary committee on human rights found human rights abuses were ‘endemic’ in Leicester’s
garments industry. The same year, a report by Leicester and Leicestershire Local Enterprise Partnership – a committee of
business and council leaders – highlighted the same problems.

And in 2019 the parliamentary environmental audit committee found factories were still ‘breaking the law to maximise profits’. 
Leicester City Council said it has no powers to check working conditions inside a building, enforce the minimum wage, or
monitor the legality of the workforce...'

Archived Daily Mail Article:

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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?

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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!)

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Have to admit I enjoy BBC for their pidgin language service.

Cheers

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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.

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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.

Oh, you mean the 'loicence' meme and the worries of Big Brother watching the Limeys!

Well the BBC lied when they frightened the public with their 'TV Detector Van' commercial. (It was a PR stunt)



What they omitted to say that the BBC had a list of names of those who'd purchased licences (which funded
the BBC) and hadn't renewed them. Of course, if your name wasn't on the list and you were watching one
of the only three channels available at the time, the BBC reckoned their detector vans could somehow detect
a signal from a 'live' television.

Considering an analogue television was a receiver and not a transmitter, their evidence was based on readings
-that they concealed from their customers, of an oscillation within a TV set that is involved in converting the incoming
signal to a manageable frequency.
It was all bullshit of course, but the British Broadcasting Company was the bastion of truth, so the public just gulped
the propaganda right down!
........................................

With the camera surveillance, that one's easy!
Like most things in England, the main concern isn't how much it initially costs, it's how much it costs to maintain it.
So after receiving financial assistance from the Government to install the cameras, one would think a crack-squad
of watchers would be sought to monitor the screens.

But video storage of quiet streets and wages cost monies that can be used elsewhere and after a few months, the
vigilance is sacrificed for a low-paid employee who's training was minimal. It's 2021 and most footage is taken by
the Police from private business's security cameras and the invention of cell-phones/high-tech doorbells

It's always the same, why maintain law-enforcement-funded surveillance equipment when it's easier just to ask for
a member to come forward with any phone-footage through the use of a local or major newspaper.
........................................

The media lie!

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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.

Oh, you mean the 'loicence' meme and the worries of Big Brother watching the Limeys!

Well the BBC lied when they frightened the public with their 'TV Detector Van' commercial. (It was a PR stunt)



What they omitted to say that the BBC had a list of names of those who'd purchased licences (which funded
the BBC) and hadn't renewed them. Of course, if your name wasn't on the list and you were watching one
of the only three channels available at the time, the BBC reckoned their detector vans could somehow detect
a signal from a 'live' television.

Considering an analogue television was a receiver and not a transmitter, their evidence was based on readings
-that they concealed from their customers, of an oscillation within a TV set that is involved in converting the incoming
signal to a manageable frequency.
It was all bullshit of course, but the British Broadcasting Company was the bastion of truth, so the public just gulped
the propaganda right down!
........................................

With the camera surveillance, that one's easy!
Like most things in England, the main concern isn't how much it initially costs, it's how much it costs to maintain it.
So after receiving financial assistance from the Government to install the cameras, one would think a crack-squad
of watchers would be sought to monitor the screens.

But video storage of quiet streets and wages cost monies that can be used elsewhere and after a few months, the
vigilance is sacrificed for a low-paid employee who's training was minimal. It's 2021 and most footage is taken by
the Police from private business's security cameras and the invention of cell-phones/high-tech doorbells

It's always the same, why maintain law-enforcement-funded surveillance equipment when it's easier just to ask for
a member to come forward with any phone-footage through the use of a local or major newspaper.
........................................

The media lie!

That darn BBC again!

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That darn BBC again!

Yep! Here's a video that shows how deceitful 'Auntie Beeb' actually is.




The licence-checking company is called Capita.

Who we are

'TV Licensing' is a trade mark of the BBC and is used under licence by companies contracted by the BBC
to administer the collection of the television licence fee and enforcement of the television licensing system.

The BBC is a public authority in respect of its television licensing functions and retains overall responsibility.

Responsibilities of TV Licensing contracted companies

Capita Business Services Ltd -Administration and enforcement of the TV Licence fee.
PayPoint Plc -Over-the-counter payment services in the UK mainland and in Northern Ireland.
Post Office -Over-the-counter payment services in the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.
RAPP -Limited (formerly Proximity London Limited) Marketing and printing services.
Havas Media -Media services.

SOURCE:

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Here in the U.S. the right echo chamber keeps harping on the idea that the Democrats want the illegals here to be able to vote and pad the turn out for Democrat candidates. Personally I feel that is too risky for the Democrats because once here, illegals could get turned to the other side. Not to mention they have the vote rigged so an influx of illegals who vote won't make too much of a difference when it comes down to who is elected or what laws get passed.

So why let them stampede across our southern border just to vote Democrat? I don't think that's why they want them here, it's about cheap labor for agriculture and other manual labor jobs like construction, shop work, landscaping, house cleaning, and other jobs the elite and urban dwellers would never do themselves.

There is likely other reasons too. Cheap illegal labor is the muscle not only for making money, but for whatever other purpose the left may have for them. If they could get LGBTQ (etc), Antifa and BLM to unite with Latino and other movements under their banner, they could dominate and destroy all those who oppose them on the right. More useful idiots to expand and maintain their grip on money and power and cannon fodder for the war on the ground in the streets.

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Here in the U.S. the right echo chamber keeps harping on the idea that the Democrats want the illegals here to be able to vote and pad the turn out for Democrat candidates. Personally I feel that is too risky for the Democrats because once here, illegals could get turned to the other side. Not to mention they have the vote rigged so an influx of illegals who vote won't make too much of a difference when it comes down to who is elected or what laws get passed.

So why let them stampede across our southern border just to vote Democrat? I don't think that's why they want them here, it's about cheap labor for agriculture and other manual labor jobs like construction, shop work, landscaping, house cleaning, and other jobs the elite and urban dwellers would never do themselves.

There is likely other reasons too. Cheap illegal labor is the muscle not only for making money, but for whatever other purpose the left may have for them. If they could get LGBTQ (etc), Antifa and BLM to unite with Latino and other movements under their banner, they could dominate and destroy all those who oppose them on the right. More useful idiots to expand and maintain their grip on money and power and cannon fodder for the war on the ground in the streets.

I couldn't agree with you more! Any political loyalty towards the Democrats from those crossing the border would
quickly dwindle when they see how the US really perceives those coming to America the illegal way.
Just like Kelly Osborne said: “If you kick every Latino out of this country, then who is going to be cleaning your toilet,
Donald Trump?”!

What would an illegal fear the most...? Being sent back across the border.
What threat could be held over the illegal to dictate hours, pay and working conditions? The same thing.