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"The gang treated their fellow countrymen as commodities" Polish against Polish as if what happened took place in Poland. Not a word by the liberal BBC about the kind of economy that allowed such a gang to operate in the UK since the Poles started coming into the country, and how the UK was allowed to opt out of EU labour laws in a bargain with Germany. A UK [modern] slavery network
Last month the National Crime Agency reported a  35% annual rise  in the number of suspected slavery victims found in the UK, with more than 5,000 people referred to the government mechanism that supports them in 2017. Labour exploitation, rather than sexual exploitation, was the most common type of modern slavery cited. How did we let modern slavery become part of our everyday lives?