Couldn’t believe how much less we are paying now it’s just based on our actual usage.
That has always been the sales pitch, but if everyone is on a meter they will loose money at that rate so prices will rise. Also if you use a sprinkler for hours, your consumption will be high and hence the cost. Fair enough to pay for what you use though.
I was listening to a radio program yesterday about transparency in the fashion industry. It wasn't as interesting as the description made it seem Expecting emperor's new clothes and got some guff about fashion retailers being 'totally unaware' that they were underpaying the workers in their supply chain.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
It's not just the pay levels but the working conditions. I haven't gone anywhere near Primark or Benetton since that dreadful fire in Bangladesh which killed so many women workers, paid a pittance and stitching clothes for them in crowded and unsafe conditions with no safety measures.
Even now there are sweat shops in places like Leicester with high, non-English speaking Bangladeshi and Pakistani immigrant women working in poor conditions and for poor pay. Exploitation happens at home too.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
The program was talking about the problems in Leicester. Apparently there's a web of sub-contractors used to hide the poor pay and conditions of some workers from the retailer. And they pointed out that there are too many regulating bodies that don't seem to work together and this makes it easier for employers to dodge prosecution.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
@wild edges any retailer/manufacturer/outsourcer naive enough to think they don't need to do a personal inspection of "factories" producing their garments, be they in the UK or elsewhere, is just too gullible to be allowed out. The drive for profits doesn't have to chuck ethics out of the window.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I am curmudgeonly about the b****** white butterflies that are getting inside the netting and fluttering about, landing on the cabbages and just generally laughing at me. Yesterday, having fixed the netting again, all around, I was watching one fluttering on the outside and thinking - ha! you can't get in now! Then it was inside and I swear it thumbed its nose at me.
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Even now there are sweat shops in places like Leicester with high, non-English speaking Bangladeshi and Pakistani immigrant women working in poor conditions and for poor pay. Exploitation happens at home too.
Yesterday, having fixed the netting again, all around, I was watching one fluttering on the outside and thinking - ha! you can't get in now! Then it was inside and I swear it thumbed its nose at me.
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/business/thetford-king-st-hsbc-bank-gambling-arcade-permission-9145394
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.