Hinduja's charged with human trafficking

Hinduja's charged with human trafficking

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glazbagun

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14,478 posts

204 months

Tuesday 18th June
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Hard times indeed when even billionaires can't pay their staff properly. Cost of living crisis & all that..

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm55gzvv1dro


Greenmantle

1,471 posts

115 months

Wednesday 19th June
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glazbagun said:
Hard times indeed when even billionaires can't pay their staff properly. Cost of living crisis & all that..

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm55gzvv1dro
Sorry probably been going on for decades.
These people don't just wake up one morning and decide to do this.
It is bred into them due to their wealth.
Arrogance, inflated belief in their worth and the the belief all others are worthless.
Trickle down economics is a total myth.

mac96

4,434 posts

150 months

Wednesday 19th June
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It's good to see action being taken, but I bet the only penalties, if found guilty, are financial which would mean nothing to these people.
Domestic slavery, or whatever you want to call this sort of exploitation and control of domestic staff, is a curse and is going on in Britain as well.

Derek Smith

46,497 posts

255 months

Wednesday 19th June
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Greenmantle said:
Trickle down economics is a total myth.
Trickle down economics? I just don't get it.

MrJuice

3,670 posts

163 months

Wednesday 19th June
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Fwiw, I met a housekeeper (one of eight full time housekeepers) who worked for Lakshmi Mittal at his house in Kensington

She was Indonesian and said the boss spoke her language to her and was all round nice. She had her own room etc. Mittal went to Indonesia when he left India and so knows the language

We have a cleaner who comes for 8h a week. She fits us in around other work

One day she turned up at a client's house in Paddington, rang the intercom to find out they didn't need her that day. I asked her after if she was paid for that shift. Nope. They gave her money to cover oyster card use. What filthy people.

QuartzDad

2,369 posts

129 months

Wednesday 19th June
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Derek Smith said:
Trickle down economics? I just don't get it.
Well played.

mwstewart

8,038 posts

195 months

Wednesday 19th June
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Based on my experience and interactions, people don't become ultra wealthy without being ultra ruthless.

Zetec-S

6,264 posts

100 months

Wednesday 19th June
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Utter scum (if the allegations are true)...

Not condoning it, but you can see why revolutions tend to end badly for the outgoing, ruling elites.

98elise

28,230 posts

168 months

Wednesday 19th June
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mwstewart said:
Based on my experience and interactions, people don't become ultra wealthy without being ultra ruthless.
The only ultra wealth person I know is an absolute gent and possibly the best person I ever worked for. He introduced bonuses on top of already decent salaries, and later gave everyone in the company shares. When it was sold a few years later those shares were worth a lot of money.

Not all wealthy people are ruthless.

ChocolateFrog

28,665 posts

180 months

Wednesday 19th June
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People that think like this are despicable.

"The charge of long hours was also disputed, with one defence lawyer arguing that watching a film with the Hinduja children could not really be classed as work."

Because they'd much rather be doing that in a foreign country for free than with their own families.

A proper ELE plague can't come soon enough.

TheJimi

25,743 posts

250 months

Wednesday 19th June
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There's a lot to unpick here, and a lot of questions to be asked, but overall, this is absolutely mental.

To a family of that wealth level, the cost of doing everything by the book in this instance, would have been absolutely negligible - not even the equivalent of a rounding error.

One can only assume ingrained arrogance and a superiority complex. C*nts being c*unts, essentially.

Edited by TheJimi on Wednesday 19th June 12:23

MrJuice

3,670 posts

163 months

Wednesday 19th June
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ChocolateFrog said:
People that think like this are despicable.

"The charge of long hours was also disputed, with one defence lawyer arguing that watching a film with the Hinduja children could not really be classed as work."

Because they'd much rather be doing that in a foreign country for free than with their own families.

A proper ELE plague can't come soon enough.
Yep. That really really pissed me off

Lotobear

7,148 posts

135 months

Wednesday 19th June
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...don't underestimate the cultural traditions also likely to be at play here.

FredericRobinson

3,940 posts

239 months

Wednesday 19th June
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Lotobear said:
...don't underestimate the cultural traditions also likely to be at play here.
Or use them as an excuse

Lotobear

7,148 posts

135 months

Wednesday 19th June
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FredericRobinson said:
Lotobear said:
...don't underestimate the cultural traditions also likely to be at play here.
Or use them as an excuse
It's certainly no excuse and in fact IME likely to be the central driver and nothing to do with money - the caste system and slavery/servitude are ingrained in the culture of the Indian sub continent and those of lower standing are treated like dirt.

I can highlight this on NPE without being accused or racism by the usual noisy cohort because the perpetrators are so wealthy


TheJimi

25,743 posts

250 months

Wednesday 19th June
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Yep, ingrained caste prejudices was the first thing that occurred to me.

Still inexcusable though and especially so for a family like that with an understanding and experience of cultural norms beyond the Indian sub continent.

Digger

15,181 posts

198 months

Wednesday 19th June
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ChocolateFrog said:
People that think like this are despicable.

"The charge of long hours was also disputed, with one defence lawyer arguing that watching a film with the Hinduja children could not really be classed as work."

Because they'd much rather be doing that in a foreign country for free than with their own families.

A proper ELE plague can't come soon enough.
ELE ?

Greenmantle

1,471 posts

115 months

Wednesday 19th June
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MrJuice said:
ChocolateFrog said:
People that think like this are despicable.

"The charge of long hours was also disputed, with one defence lawyer arguing that watching a film with the Hinduja children could not really be classed as work."

Because they'd much rather be doing that in a foreign country for free than with their own families.

A proper ELE plague can't come soon enough.
Yep. That really really pissed me off
ask said defense lawyer whether if asked to do the same whether they would consider that Billable Hours!
What an absolute sh*t.

ChocolateFrog

28,665 posts

180 months

Wednesday 19th June
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Digger said:
ChocolateFrog said:
People that think like this are despicable.

"The charge of long hours was also disputed, with one defence lawyer arguing that watching a film with the Hinduja children could not really be classed as work."

Because they'd much rather be doing that in a foreign country for free than with their own families.

A proper ELE plague can't come soon enough.
ELE ?
It's time the human race became extinct.

Well long past time if we're being honest.

Digger

15,181 posts

198 months

Wednesday 19th June
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ChocolateFrog said:
Digger said:
ChocolateFrog said:
People that think like this are despicable.

"The charge of long hours was also disputed, with one defence lawyer arguing that watching a film with the Hinduja children could not really be classed as work."

Because they'd much rather be doing that in a foreign country for free than with their own families.

A proper ELE plague can't come soon enough.
ELE ?
It's time the human race became extinct.

Well long past time if we're being honest.
So just type Extinction Level Event then . . .