Tag Archives: slave labour
Extremists, terrorism, and racism
One of the nastiest and most thought-provoking ads the pro-life movement in the US ever ran was of a very pretty little girl, aged about six, in a red dress, nappy hair with a pink ribbon. She stares out of … Continue reading
Filed under American, Human Rights, Poverty, Racism, Women
The outside agitator wants your biscuit
At a table somewhere in Hypothetical Stories, there’s Dolly from Tunbridge Wells, who reads the Daily Mail and works 35 hours a week for £7 an hour and an evening job on top of that just to get by. And … Continue reading
Filed under Benefits, Poverty, Supermarkets
Challenge Iain Duncan Smith
Iain Duncan Smith, today: “The question I’d ask these bishops is, over all these years, why have they sat back and watched people being placed in houses they cannot afford? It’s not a kindness. I would like to see their … Continue reading
Filed under Benefits, Healthcare, Human Rights, Poverty
Resist the supermarkets
When supermarkets come to town, they wreck local businesses, set up a flow of money out of the community, increase traffic, and generally act like bullies who think they’re too big to fall. They make use of workfare labourers to … Continue reading
Filed under Supermarkets
What is Christianity, anyway?
Tesco share price dropped by 15% today. Tesco blames the recession – not enough shoppers over Christmas to make up for the “Big Price Drop” they were advertising from September onwards. Of course much of the “Big Price Drop” was … Continue reading
Filed under About Food, Benefits, Poverty, Religion
Chris Grayling recommends slave labour
Chris Grayling, Conservative MP for Epsom and Ewell, is rather proud of the thousands of young people obliged to be shelf-stackers in Poundland and Tesco for no pay, in order to retain their JSA benefit: The Department for Work and … Continue reading
Filed under Poverty
