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| 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.
