anthonyqkiernan
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19 Chinese Cockle Pickers
Feb 09, 2004, 00:08
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Irrespective of that sounding like rugby song
(you have no idea how very sorry I am about that - but I have been thinking it.)
Does anyone else think the emphasis on "we'll find the bastards sending them out there" is a bit disingenuous?
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PaulMakesMusic
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Re: 19 Chinese Cockle Pickers
Feb 09, 2004, 01:51
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From the daily express, yes.
http://www.express.co.uk/story.html?story=5&r=107629148021260389
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Spaceship mark
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Re: 19 Chinese Cockle Pickers
Feb 09, 2004, 10:29
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I find the whole thing shocking. Having walked across Morcambe Bay twice (in the company of the official guide). I know what a ridiculously dangerous place it is. Basically sending someone who doesn't know what they're doing out there is kinda like asking them to dive for pearls in shark infested waters with a fresh steak tied round their neck. Terrible.
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anthonyqkiernan
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Re: 19 Chinese Cockle Pickers
Feb 09, 2004, 11:22
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Indeed. very scary. In fact, I'm sure that Morecombe has been trading as a seaside town as a joke. I've never seen the sea any time I've been there.
i just think that there's gonna be a big "we got the bastards" hoo-ha while behind the scenes those that survived or have been picked up in Liverpool will be 'sent back' to face whatever they were fleeing and who bankrolled their journey here.
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necropolist
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far too little too late, but....
Feb 09, 2004, 14:05
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By a horrible coincidence, at my union meeting last thursday we discussed a campaign to license 'gangmasters', there's an 'Early Day Motion' being introduced to that end. It's not a lot, or anything like enough to stop repeats of such murders, but its worth supporting.
http://www.tgwu.org.uk/Templates/System/Other.asp?NodeID=90431
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