the daily mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1293881/Poundland-launches-inquiry-boy-SEVEN-paid-7p-hour.html

now, the daily mash version

Human rights campaigners trying desperately not to love Poundland

That doesn't surprise me… I've seen signs in a couple of poundland shops saying they're looking for store managers / supervisors and it meets national minimum wage. If their supervisors are only getting minimum wage, what about everyone else?

Don't agree with explotation of any kind, but 7p to him is far, far different to 7p for us – better if we had a 'guide' to really understand what 7p in India is actually worth.

And when I clicked on the link there was a (nearby) charity site 'promoting' sponsor a 3rd world child for 60p per week.

is anyone really surprised that all the stuff we buy really cheaply is so cheap because the western world is exploiting the eastern world?

BR fail
the issue with child labour is the child and the labour bit not the rate of pay for child labour. 🙄

What Junkyard said. There was a thing a couple of years ago where ASDA were selling children's school shirts for £1 each or something and then middle England was "shocked and disgusted" to discover that they were being made by workers in shit conditions being paid buttons. FFS people, how do you thinks that something can be made in a another country, sent half way round the world and sold for £1 if exploitation isn't involved.

As above, yes I know 7 is 6 years wounger than the age your allowed to work in this country (with a work permit and conditions attached) but the alternative is the kid is just another mouth for his parents to feed untill he reaches an age where it becomes acceptable to the daily mail for him to work.

Shock horror that in some parts of the world kids are more than a ticket for a council house/something to dote on (delete as appropriate) they are needed to bring in money to the household and/or are the product of decreaced infant mortality and a culture that encourages large birth rates which then creates the demand for more money in the household and as a result the kids have to work.

Indeed our current level of comfort is on the back of the poor and exploited elsewhere.

The boy was found to be working and sleeping in the sweatshop in Delhi.

So he get's free accomadation as well?

I think the daily mash nailed it really well, the problem is that people want cheap napkin rings (or whatever else) so something has to give. Child labour is wrong no one denys that but until the developed world accpts that they are complicit in it, it won't stop.

LOLs at K1973

IIRC Clare Short considered child labour a necessary evil in development of some countries.

IIRC Clare Short considered child labour a necessary evil in development of some countries.

like it was in the western world back in the day…

As said, same planet, different world – maybe in a couple of hundred years they will have caught up with where we were early in the 20th century?

Again not agreeing, just pointing out.

and we have a head teacher getting £246,000 per year for not teching kids.

Bet he doesnt shop at Poundland,more like waitrose.

maybe in a couple of hundred years they will have caught up

😕 200 years ? India has one of the fastest growing economy in the world. It is a nuclear power which can launch satellites into space. It's economy is already the 11th largest in the world – and that is not a position which it is in anyway likely to stay at. Growth for this year is forecast at 9.5%.

Rather than comparing India with Britain 200 years ago, a fairer comparison would be with China today. Although sadly it does not in many respects, compare favourably.

India has one of the fastest growing economy in the world. It is a nuclear power which can launch satellites into space. It's economy is already the 11th largest in the world – and that is not a position which it is in anyway likely to stay at. Growth for this year is forecast at 9.5%.

And we (and the rest of the 'developed' world) still give it charity…

£300m this year.

£300m this year.

Which pales into complete insignificance when compared to the payback which Britain receives.

Not only does Britain receive an endless supply of cheap goods, but the fact that the price of manufactured goods from countries such as India and China have remained largely static, and in fact often have actually dropped, is why Britain has experienced such low inflation in recent years.

Low inflation of recent decades has very little to do with UK government policy, and a great deal to do with the cost of manufactured goods from third world countries.

Be grateful for that …….be very grateful.