?It?s not fair. It?s not right,? Ed Miliband said on Friday, ?So we?ll put a stop to it. We?ll end the scandal of unpaid internships.?
Since 2010, Labour MPs have placed 55 adverts for unpaid interns.
Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Rachel Reeves says: ?You should pay someone for doing a job.?
Yet in five years, Reeves advertised for six unpaid interns.
Not only in her Leeds constituency, but in Westminster too, where she has claimed: ?You can?t afford to do it if your parents don?t have the money.?
Yet more Labour hypocrisy
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Ed Miliband blasted David Cameron and big business over zero hours contracts ? and pledged to stick up for ordinary workers who are being ?exploited?.
Speaking in Yorkshire on Wednesday, the Labour leader raged: ?Less than a week ago, you may have heard the Prime Minister say that he couldn?t live on a zero hours contract. Well, I couldn?t live on a zero hours contract either. I?ve got a simple principle ? if it is not good enough for us, it?s not good enough for you and it?s not good enough for Britain.
?That?s the way I will run our country. One rule for all.?
Except there?s one small problem for Ed.
Nearly 70 Labour MPs have employed workers on ?zero hours? contracts over the past two years .
That?s nearly a quarter of the Labour parliamentary party.
The damning list of 68 includes Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls, Lucy Powell, Labour?s elections chief and Karen Buck, Ed Miliband?s parliamentary aide.
That list of Labour hypocrites in full:
Adrian Bailey
Alan Campbell
Alan Meale
Alex Cunningham
Andy Burnham
Andy Slaughter
Ann Clwyd
Ann McKechin
Barbara Keeley
Barry Sheerman
Ben Bradshaw
Bob Ainsworth
Bridget Phillipson
Catherine McKinnell
Chinyelu Susan Onwurah
Chris Evans
Clive Efford
Dan Jarvis
Ed Balls
Fiona Mactaggart
Frank Dobson
George Mudie
Glenda Jackson
Graeme Morrice
Graham Jones
Gregg McClymont
Heidi Alexander
Helen Jones
Huw Irranca Davies
Ian Lucas
Ian Murray
John Woodcock
Jon Trickett
Jonathan Ashworth
Jonathan Reynolds
Julie Hilling
Karen Buck
Katy Clark
Kerry McCarthy
Kevan Jones
Lilian Greenwood
Louise Ellman
Luciana Berger
Lucy Powell
Lyn Brown
Margaret Curran
Mary Creagh
Meg Hillier
Meg Munn
Mike Wood
Nic Dakin
Pat Glass
Peter Hain
Rachel Reeves
Rosie Cooper
Rushanara Ali
Sarah Champion
Seema Malhotra
Shabana Mahmood
Sheila Gilmore
Stephen Twigg
Susan Jones
Toby Perkins
Tom Greatrex
Valerie Vaz
Vernon Coaker
Virendra Sharma
Yasmin Qureshi
MPs pay and expenses watchdog IPSA released the figures earlier this year after a Freedom of Information request.
Labour insist their MPs use the casual contracts to hire interns or students on flexible deals.
But officials from Labour?s biggest trade union donor insist all MPs should set an example to business.
Steve Turner, Unite regional officer, said last year: ?Parliament passed the laws that are supposed to protect pay and conditions.
?Our MPs ought to be upholding them, setting a high standard for employers.?
Speaking in Yorkshire on Wednesday, the Labour leader raged: ?Less than a week ago, you may have heard the Prime Minister say that he couldn?t live on a zero hours contract. Well, I couldn?t live on a zero hours contract either. I?ve got a simple principle ? if it is not good enough for us, it?s not good enough for you and it?s not good enough for Britain.
?That?s the way I will run our country. One rule for all.?
Except there?s one small problem for Ed.
Nearly 70 Labour MPs have employed workers on ?zero hours? contracts over the past two years .
That?s nearly a quarter of the Labour parliamentary party.
The damning list of 68 includes Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls, Lucy Powell, Labour?s elections chief and Karen Buck, Ed Miliband?s parliamentary aide.
That list of Labour hypocrites in full:
Adrian Bailey
Alan Campbell
Alan Meale
Alex Cunningham
Andy Burnham
Andy Slaughter
Ann Clwyd
Ann McKechin
Barbara Keeley
Barry Sheerman
Ben Bradshaw
Bob Ainsworth
Bridget Phillipson
Catherine McKinnell
Chinyelu Susan Onwurah
Chris Evans
Clive Efford
Dan Jarvis
Ed Balls
Fiona Mactaggart
Frank Dobson
George Mudie
Glenda Jackson
Graeme Morrice
Graham Jones
Gregg McClymont
Heidi Alexander
Helen Jones
Huw Irranca Davies
Ian Lucas
Ian Murray
John Woodcock
Jon Trickett
Jonathan Ashworth
Jonathan Reynolds
Julie Hilling
Karen Buck
Katy Clark
Kerry McCarthy
Kevan Jones
Lilian Greenwood
Louise Ellman
Luciana Berger
Lucy Powell
Lyn Brown
Margaret Curran
Mary Creagh
Meg Hillier
Meg Munn
Mike Wood
Nic Dakin
Pat Glass
Peter Hain
Rachel Reeves
Rosie Cooper
Rushanara Ali
Sarah Champion
Seema Malhotra
Shabana Mahmood
Sheila Gilmore
Stephen Twigg
Susan Jones
Toby Perkins
Tom Greatrex
Valerie Vaz
Vernon Coaker
Virendra Sharma
Yasmin Qureshi
MPs pay and expenses watchdog IPSA released the figures earlier this year after a Freedom of Information request.
Labour insist their MPs use the casual contracts to hire interns or students on flexible deals.
But officials from Labour?s biggest trade union donor insist all MPs should set an example to business.
Steve Turner, Unite regional officer, said last year: ?Parliament passed the laws that are supposed to protect pay and conditions.
?Our MPs ought to be upholding them, setting a high standard for employers.?
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Yea, but, when lefties do it, it's different, innit?
I mean, they hate tax avoidance, so when they do it, they call it tax planning, and that's perfectly acceptable.
Didn't Len's puppet start on an internship with Tony Benn?
I mean, they hate tax avoidance, so when they do it, they call it tax planning, and that's perfectly acceptable.
Didn't Len's puppet start on an internship with Tony Benn?
We have need of you again, great king.
Re: Yet more Labour hypocrisy
Peter wrote:
> Yea, but, when lefties do it, it's different, innit?
>
> I mean, they hate tax avoidance, so when they do it, they call
> it tax planning, and that's perfectly acceptable.
>
> Didn't Len's puppet start on an internship with Tony Benn?
>
He did indeed, a family friend.
> Yea, but, when lefties do it, it's different, innit?
>
> I mean, they hate tax avoidance, so when they do it, they call
> it tax planning, and that's perfectly acceptable.
>
> Didn't Len's puppet start on an internship with Tony Benn?
>
He did indeed, a family friend.
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Re: Yet more Labour hypocrisy
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Lads, lads, lads!
So politicians can be hypocritical? Thanks lads, I'd never realised!
You seem to be missing the important point here. Yes, Labour politicians can be hypocritical just as politicians from all British parties can be hypocritical.
However, Miliband is pledging to end long term internships. So he is actually proposing to do something if elected. Just as Labour introduced the minimum wage in the face of opposition from Tories and the business world, Labour are undertaking to do something about long term internships.
Surely it is better to accept an issue AND do something about it, which is preferable to either not recognising the problem or recognising the problem AND doing nothing?
Obviously if this is not acted on after a Miliband win, then that would be contemptible.
You seem to be missing the important point here. Yes, Labour politicians can be hypocritical just as politicians from all British parties can be hypocritical.
However, Miliband is pledging to end long term internships. So he is actually proposing to do something if elected. Just as Labour introduced the minimum wage in the face of opposition from Tories and the business world, Labour are undertaking to do something about long term internships.
Surely it is better to accept an issue AND do something about it, which is preferable to either not recognising the problem or recognising the problem AND doing nothing?
Obviously if this is not acted on after a Miliband win, then that would be contemptible.