SO SLAVERY ISN'T DEAD

                                                      

                                                        SO SLAVERY ISN'T DEAD

According to the Global Slavery Index 2013 (didn't know there was one) it appears that many countries still practise  slavery.   It was interesting to read that 14 million people in India are considered by this survey to be slaves.   Quite what the definition of being a slave is I'm not aware.   It's probably a bit like being pigeon holed by quangos  as in poverty in the United Kingdom, but still having enough money for cigarettes, lager and Lottery tickets.   It's a strange fact of life, by the way, that by doubling the price of a Lottery ticket from £1 to £2 it  means that only the unemployed can afford them.

Getting back to the slavery question, it appears that Mauritania has the highest percentage of slaves per head of population at 4%.   I've no idea of where Mauritania is.   I know it's somewhere to the right as you stand in my garden and look north and I know there was a ship named after it.   In the wider realms of society, however, it still appears that slavery is a dirty word and yet as I've always contended, inflation rose dramatically when it was abolished - now there's something to conjure with.