Slavery

[bunn]

Last night on the local news, some person who had 'written a musical about slavery' said 'there are more people in slavery now than at the height of the Atlantic slave trade' and that 'there are slaves in every town and city in the UK'.

Can this possible be true? I know human trafficking exists, and is a terrible thing, but surely this has to be on a much smaller scale, given that it is illegal?

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[bunn.livejournal.com]

LOL at the Minions.

It would be possible to keep someone totally isolated from the world, even here (actually, perhaps more here, given that there are no public phones and no police station for several miles), but you'd have to be awfully careful about it, and if you were that careful, I am not sure how people could have figures on it...

The village rumour mill is active, but very often extremely inaccurate! For example, there is a persistent idea that I've heard from several people, that I am a nurse who works shifts. I think this originated because I sometimes am seen walking my dogs during the working day, and then got muddled up with our neighbour Cassie, who also has greyhounds - she isn't a nurse either, but she is a care assistant... I wouldn't want to rely on the village rumour mill to identify any kind of crime!