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[email protected] · October 4th 12, 08:28 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On Thu, 4 Oct 2012 08:17:12 +0100
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 16:08:32 on Wed, 3 Oct
2012, d remarked:
There was a TV programme on this only a few months ago and I seem to
remember the main reason given was that educated women were being brought
over by their families for an arranged marriage with an out of work
uneducated layabout husband which caused friction, when the "man" of the
family is the head but the woman in the only one with any brains.
Distress in the woman being the cause who can't see any other way out of a
bad situation.

Indeed. They have no local support network, and probably know no-one
outside the family. They've probably never heard of the Samaritans, and
couldn't return to their family back home as that would lose too much face.

And they probably have no access to funds or passports either.

If they're that intelligent they could find out about services that could
help them or even just go to the police.

You clearly have no idea how trapped these women are in their
unfortunate situation.

Frankly I don't give a rats arse, but if they are educated indians or
pakistanis they'll almost certainly speak english and so can get themselves
help. Of course it does make one wonder where the professional liberal lefty
handwringers are in these sorts of situations. Suddenly they all go quiet
when they realise they can either defend human rights or upset some ethnics.
Apparently defending human rights isn't such a big deal after all.

B2003