Week 52

Watching television last night switching channels we were interested by Our World on the bbc news channel. It involved a factory manager in Bangladesh who had a clothing factory with improved working conditions and pay for the very poor working there. Like the Cadbury’s in by gone ages in the UK he cared for his workers . They made jeans for the big names across the world ( satisfying our need for more ethical production). Then came Covid and our needs changed, orders stopped and orders that had been shipped remained unwanted and unpaid for. Peacocks was sighted as one of those. Of course Peacocks Jaegar and Edinburgh wool are one of the same and have gone out of business! The employees were unpaid, the owner broken by the experience . A sobering end to 2020,that the developing world is so dependent on the excesses of the western world.