LABOUR DONT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT YOUNG PEOPLE OR THE LOW PAID

Stockton North Labour MP Alex Cunningham. His constituents have complained via Twitter because while campaigning for a Living Wage, he shamelessly exploits a young office apprentice by paying them just £125 per week.

By HARRY BLACKWOOD

If the Labour Party MP Sadiq Khan is to believed (please don't, he's a politician) his party cares deeply about Britain's young people. They must do. Why else would Labour be committed to lowering the voting age to 16?

Well, how about if it was nothing more than a callous and calculated plan to get young people to THINK Labour cares in order to grab a few extra votes? Forgive my cynicism, but a lifetime of dealing with scheming, duplicitous, lying politicians has taught me to be suspicious about everything they say and do.

The reality is that the Labour Party don't give a damn about young people. If they did they'd make a manifesto pledge to do something about the insultingly low wages paid to young people. The National Minimum Wage of £3.72 an hour for 16/17 year olds is nothing more than slavery. Hell's teeth why don't they just go the whole hog and start sending kids up chimneys again?

This issue of low pay was brought into sharp focus this week when Stockton North Labour MP Alex Cunningham was taken to task on Twitter by constituents after it emerged that he was taking on an apprentice in his office and paying the young person £3.37 an hour, or the princely sum of £125 a week for a 37 hour week.
Now, on the one hand perhaps Cunningham should be congratulated for taking on a young person, but on the other hand maybe he'd like to explain how that young person can possibly get by on £125 a week.

We can assume that the young person lives at home with parents and the parents are willing to offer free board and lodgings. Then we'll assume that it's going to cost a fiver to get to and from work by public transport and let's say they spend a fiver a day on refreshments and lunch. That's fifty quid a week just to get to the job. The end result is that the young person is working for the sort of money that kids in Indian sweat shops are paid.

I wonder how Cunningham would get by on that sort of money? Not very well I'd say as the so-called left winger claims almost that in a week for the rent on his London flat than he's planning to pay his apprentice for a month.

And how about this for hypocrisy Cunningham style. He is supposedly an 'ardent campaigner' (his words not mine) for a living wage. So he campaigns to give workers £7.65 an hour but is happy to pay his own workers less than half that amount.

So now you're thinking that this hypocritical bastard couldn't be any worse aren't you? Get away. He's an MP. Of course he's capable of worse.

What if I told you he had a grown up son called John. And what if I told you that he employed someone called John Cunningham in his office on £9,999 a year according to the register of interests. Now far be it for me to say that's his son but it is.

But let's not be too harsh on Cunningham. Compared to the hypocritical bastard in the next door constituency, Cunningham is a saint. As I've mentioned in a previous article, 

Hartlepool's Labour MP Iain Wright pays his wife £27,000 a year to work part time.

But let's not be too harsh on Cunningham. Compared to the hypocritical bastard in the next door constituency, Cunningham is a saint. As I've mentioned in a previous article, 

Hartlepool's Labour MP Iain Wright pays his wife £27,000 a year to work part time.

I have a bit of advice for young people hoping to earn a living wage . . . marry an MP.

Sorted.

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