Traveller 'slavery' story

details a bit thin, but wtf

www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2011/0912/1224303946851.html

News broke here last night

A few pictures here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2036153/Bedfordshire-caravan-site-24-male-slaves-rescued-police-dawn-raid.html

damn, was hoping they'd dug up something else on John Popper. Carry on.

been out of the loop this weekend i'm afraid.

Kinda unclear how this worked- people released to work all day then brought back and locked up? And the investigation is going on for four years?

yeah if they were ferried away for jobs, im amazed they didnt try and make a break for it

so fucking insane

i can see where immigrants might be vulnerable to i dunno threats or fears they'd only be brought back and punished, but yeah how did nobody get away from this?

Mentions one person that escaped and reported it to police but legislation wasn't in place to act? What?

Could have been sent with guards but the psychological hold is more important. They target vulnerable people and threaten them. Same with sexual slavery. Even if you can escape, the consequences might be feared to be worse.

also: im not sure the feds would be 'all ears'

im amazed they didnt try and make a break for it

This is how they found out about it, I think?

But, yeah, sure the police consider they had better things to do

british people should have known better than to trust a pikey

whoo, ironic racism, how edgy.

not rly racism but... yeah

yeah want to avoid any of that tbh s'why i started specific thread.

I was intrigued by the idea that there would be Travellers wealthy enough to benefit from having slaves. I also found myself thinking that homeless people and alcoholics might not make for the most productive forced labour. so this is all very bizarre.

I was intrigued by the idea that there would be Travellers wealthy enough to benefit from having slaves

i don't really understand this point, but i wouldn't say travellers are universally short of a few bob

srsly

Also, everyone would benefit from having slaves to do their bidding, surely?

Wage bills slashed at a stroke

More or less the same story broke locally a few months ago and yet didn't seem to break out of being a 'local' story.

http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/men-kept-slaves/story-12089143-detail/story.html

(ok, it did make it into the Mail - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1370669/4-travellers-held-police-slavery-charges-Gloucestershire.html)

That's pretty much identical!

Miles Connors, of Mary Street, Bawling Backlands, Bradford, John Connors, of Beggars Roost Caravan Park, Bamfurlong Lane, Staverton, and Breda and William Connors, of The Willows, Bamfurlong Lane, Staverton, were all remanded into custody.

... Olde England or what?

Yeah, I wonder in what ways the timing of this raid and its media profile might be connected to the Dale Farm situation.

also the ratings success of 'my best friend's gypsy wedding' or w/e it was

.. and that guy winning Celebrity Big Brother

Upcoming 30th anniversary reissue of Too-Rye-Ay, it all ties in.

The trial of the Gloucestershire family isn't due to begin until the end of October. I wonder if the two stories are connected? There was another story alkong the same lines locally a few years ago, but I can't find the article now, iirc the "slaves" then were all east Europeans, using street drinkers and the homeless seems to be the new development.

using street drinkers and the homeless seems to be the new development

Growth industry, in fact the current government won't be happy until we are leading the world in this field

yeah tories adore travelling community alright

I was referring to homeless people and street drinkers

Well, they hate them too of course but they are a proud record of increasing their numbers whenever they are in power

have a proud blah blah blah

tough on homelessness, murmurmurmurmur on the causes of homelessness

Someone's in a satirical mood:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100104361/traveller-slaves-vanessa-redgrave-can-surely-explain/

Which of us can say, hand on heart, that we have not at some time in our lives felt the urge to kidnap one or two stray migrant workers or alcoholics,James Delingpole and, say, Toby Young, shave their heads, steal their mobile phones, keep them in a shed or a dog kennel at the bottom of our gardens and force them to perform menial tasks for starvation rations and no money, beating them if they fail to measure up or try to escape?

http://www.tshirthell.com/store/skin1/images/pto-price-overlay.gif

well, that didn't work. never mind, it's shit anyway.

why would you want to shave toby young's head? how could you even do that?

a) because I couldn't be bothered to strike out that bit of Delingpole's article?
b) i think he's still got a bit of hair on the sides of his head? actually forcing him to grow that out might be more cruel.

jesus easy on the collateral damage ned there's vulnerable ppl reading

http://i.imgur.com/m40bi.jpg

i think he might actually be wearing the uniform of the west london no black people school itp?

^ nsfhb

Is that his idea of a smile btw?

nah u want to visit this classic url for that

http://press.greygoosevodka.com/howto/How%20to%20images/Toby%20Young.JPG

LOL. Cheer up Tobe, think of all those poor people and blacks your children won't have to go to school with from now on.

Jesus, this is the fifth case this year according to Channel 4 News.

Nine of the men have asked to go back to the camp.

Stockholm Syndrome.

Also, they've got nowhere else to go.

Little Billington Syndrome

there are proper british people crying out for jobs in the slave trade and yet they're doled out to immigrants and gypsies willie nillie