It's time the British Government repealed the 1807 Slave Trade Abolition Act.

As what he is proposing is the essential "capture" of free men and women and enslaving them and not the voluntary working agreement or even indentured servitude of past I have to disagree with his position. In any society that proposes to be "democratic" the first precept is freedom. John Locke put it best when he stated "All mankind. .. being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. " His concept of a people who are not governed by those given divine right is one of the founding principles of my nation (though not fully recognized until much later) and what allows men to pursue success or failure as is their right. The idea that another person could somehow govern another in a "well cultured" and "humane" manner is ideological and against basic human nature. There will be no doubt there will be those who treat the slave in a just and fair manner however others will mistreat and abuse the power of control as with any position of power or governance. Since only the wealthiest of the society will be the ones controlling the very poor I find it a skew into the negative direction of further devisiveness and perfect platform for tyranny to take root. By only the very rich controlling more power than they already do this will create positive feedback loop developing more poor and there by more slaves. Do not underestimate the greed of man for even the most benevolent fall to temptation and can rationalize wrong as right. I have personal experience with this in a corporate environment. The further up the ladder one gets and more power s/he attains the black and white notion of right and wrong becomes blurred into shades of grey and since the wealthy are the ones in control who would be the ones to stop them from further abuse of power. Furthermore in cases of history it is true that some of the greatest societies have been built on the backs of slaves of the empires who rulled them but those societies were eventually consumed with greed and destroyed by the vast divide in wealth from rich to poor. Every slave owning empire had a revolt against the shackles of slavery. You refer to them as inmates and have not set any time that they could leave on thier own will so I assume you mean that this 'sentence' is to be indefinite. Are they to have children born into slavery thus creating a permanent resupply? If this is the case does this not violate the precept that we are ALL born free? Define "improvements to life" as I am unclear on what or who sets what is a good life. I would say that if the system you propose is on a strictly voluntary sense I would agree that it could be an improvement for both parties and would not lead to violence or resistance as both parties enter of thier own accord and people of ALL backgrounds would have access to free help so long as they are able to supply the basic needs of life (shelter, warmth, food and water). I have proposed this argument when dealing with the illegal immigrant situation in the past as it would reduce many of the problems that occur when people live as criminals. You have a unique situation in Brittain as it is an island that has little room for expansion and frontier for the vagrants to live outside of the shackles of society but even here in Florida where we have VAST untapped land and resources that could make for a sufficient living as a hunter gatherer or land based society we have bums that occupy our streets. What I propose in return is a training facitlity that either cleans them up and presents them to "adult adoptoption" facilities or teaches them basic survival needs and presents them with the opportunity to live in governmentally controlled land that is abundant with the neccessary resources for survival. All men who lack the control of thier own destiny, even if it is only a percieved control, will resist and become violent it is a basic psychological principle. The resistance may be squashed with sufficient "enforcement" but if people have to be forced to submit this would violate your first statement that thier lives have "improved. "