Sadiq Khan to appoint Modern Slavery Ambassador for Hackney
London’s mayor Sadiq Khan announced the new role last week.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan is to appoint a Modern Slavery Ambassador for Hackney.
Khan made the announcement during Mayor’s Question Time last week in response to a query from local London Assembly member Jennette Arnold.
Arnold had asked the Mayor how the Metropolitan Police is tackling the “cruel practice” of modern slavery.
The ambassador is yet to be chosen, but whoever fills the role will support police officers by ensuring they have the skills to deal with slavery in the borough effectively.
Hackney’s London Assembly member Jennette Arnold
Arnold welcomed the move, saying: “Modern slavery devastates the lives of its victims and it should have no place in our society.
“This bold move marks a turning point in our approach that will help to stamp out this cruel practice in Hackney.”
Khan also revealed that 59 arrests have been made under the Modern Slavery Act so far this year, compared to 88 in 2016.
Jonatan Majewski was convicted of human trafficking last month. Photograph: Met Police
Since the legislation came into force in 2015, at least six cases have resulted in a conviction. That figure includes Hackney man Jonatan Majewski, who was convicted of human trafficking in September and handed an 18-month sentence.
This coming the same day the Met Police say they are going to stop investigating ‘low-level’ crimes – including crimes in which victims won’t testify against the offenders – in response to the Tories’ £400m funding cuts.
Majewski wasn’t a “Hackney man” he was a Polish immigrant or, to be strictly accurate, an assimilated Pole with Polish surname.
The politically correct and diversity crowd won’t like this comment.
What have we had so far? The Irish Travellers up in Lincolnshire, the Vietnamese kids in the dope bunkers, the Chinese up in Morecombe bay, the Roma gypsy gangs with child slaves, the Saudis with their domestic servants, the Pakistani (a nation where two million are trapped in life long contracts) and their imported “wives” (remember the story of the deaf and mute woman?) … God knows how many Africans coming over via Dover by whoever (Albania, Nigeria, Vietnam, Romania and Poland are the most likely countries of origin).
Here is one of the unequated costs when you throw open a basically reasonably resolved society to less resolved societies. They bring the norms of their own societies with them, and turn ours into theirs.
You can have a police that can cope with “normal” levels of normal crimes, or one that is exhausted by such increases in extreme crimes and abuses typical of developing nations where such concepts such as the rule of law, and so on, have not ever been established.
And before the PC brigade throws up the canard that historically “the British” were slavers too, the British people did not. Only the church, some of the aristocracy and a few hundred individuals did. The British people put an end to it.
And here we are back at the beginning of it all again.
Of course, I’d be happy to accept if you add the names of the bosses of Uber, Hermes, Sports Direct, McDonalds and all the other big zero hour contract employers that the wonderful “neo-liberal” economic proponents have equally allowed to flood into the UK to the list of abusers.
What a wonderful equation. How well they match with a rootless, desperate and divide workforce we now have.
When I wrote assimilated Poles with Polish surname, I meant the Tyneside gang; Sebastian Mandzik, Robert Majewski, Pawel Majewski and Seweryn Szmyt, weren’t real Poles, they were Roma gyspies doing what they do.
Another Roma Majewski, along with the Gil family of sons were running a similar slavery/welfare scam out of Forest Gate not so long ago in 2014 – including the usual subjecting women to repeated sexual assaults.
Now we get to pay for 6 week trials and 32 years plus “holiday” in prison for them.
You see, like it or not, PC or not, the word is out that the UK is soft touch.