Gold-Plated Interns
Interns are a plenty with graduate unemployment high. Only this government would pay someone with little to no experience more than the average national salary:
Departmental Work Experience
Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many interns work in his Department; what terms of reference apply to their appointment; what remuneration they receive; and how long on average an intern appointment lasts. [286823]
Joan Ruddock: DECC currently has one intern. DECC’s terms of reference for interns are still being developed, and are based on giving an individual a personal development opportunity and introducing them to the civil service, while completing a meaningful piece of work.
Remuneration for this contract is based on £29,191 (pro rata) which is in line with the DEFRA HEO starting salary.
This contract is for three months.
Source: Hansard, Column 1630W, 21 July 2009,
Not as if the government has a budget deficit or anything…
So who is the intern, was it a publsished opportunity and what was the selection process?
It was the love child of Willis and Ruddock
Civil Service old man.
We select within the old boy network so your school tie is very valuable.
I repeat Cynic’s incisive questions :
1. Who is the intern
2. Was this advertised (if yes, how)
3. What was the selection process
AND Questions of my Own :
4. What are the real costs of this “Job” – Employer’s National Insurance, office costs
5. How many Businesses were made Bankrupt by the Revenue, in order to pay for this
6. Who made the decision and who (iof anyone) is accountable for this “job”-creation
Maybe it was advertised internally on a left-wing newsletter. Left wing parties have quite the history of doing this seán fear!
Glad you enjoyed your day of morris dancing, maypole prancing and other manly pursuits. Such fine examples of humanity you all appear.
Quite right Anonymous. I prefer the Notting Hill Carnival myself, what with all the manly knifings, steaming, robberies, murders and riots. It’s so much more in tune with modern, vibrant Britain.
Please notice is said “__/based on/__ “”
That did not imply they pay the poor deluded bastards anything at all.
It doesn’t imply, it states that they (just the one for now) are ‘paid’ pro rata.
It is pro rata, not just based on. It is actual for A Higher Executive grade.
Quite specific.
It’s the civil service so why the surprise ?
Even the lowliest Sir Humphry has to start somewhere but to start below the average wage ? No, I think you’ll find that is a fate too ghastly for words for a mandarin to suffer.
“Even the lowliest Sir Humphry has to start somewhere but to start below the average wage ? No, I think you’ll find that is a fate too ghastly for words for a mandarin to suffer.”
Average Civil Service salary is just over £22,500 a year, which is below the UK average. And that’s not the starting salary, it’s the median average for all 500,000 Civil Servants.
But hey, why let little things like facts get in the way of a good rant?
A classic case of clowns teaching clowns, I gottan ology.
so whats the going rate then?
Free beheading at the end of the week
Stoning for the ladies, don’t forget. Or you can always set fire to their wedding-tent.
That sounds like disorder to me. I’ve told you before. The punishment for disorder is to amputate the limbs on opposite sides. So, for example, left leg and right arm or right lleg and left arm.
The choice is yours.
And don’t forget, it’s me, Allah, the merciful, all-knowing. But occassionally the all-knowing, merciful. I like to mix it up a bit.
“What are the Three Things that God does not know?”
Answers on a postcard please, to here.
What a fucking disgrace. There are so many people struggling out in the real world to make ends meet. These socialist MPs cant help themselves, as soon as they are in power the stick their fucking great snouts in the trough and fucking shaft the tax payer. Come on election day because this bunch of third rate fuckwits are all going out on the fucking dole.
I feel so much better for that, and I’m off home for a cold beer.
Thankyou
Don’t forget all the tax you’ve paid on your beer — it goes straight into Gordon’s capacious pockets, in his capacious troosers, enclosing his capacious arse.
Yes, well with Labour in power, you certainly can’t afford to warm your beer up.
The next few years will be very much like the early 70s all over again. Except of course that apart from economic problems, it was a great time to be alive back then. Freedom ruled!
Why does anything this corrupt criminal cabal do surprise us anymore?
Because some of us still have a shred or two of personal integrity?
Oh well start em young
How much does Mandy’s rent boy get paid?
£29k by the looks of it and a hand up in life
And a fist up his arse.
I was under the impression the PM’s salary was a lot higher than that?
What I want to know is Richard Limpknees still working for the old
Jackbooted one for the same £40K per annum(Plus access to her expenses of course).
Has she shed some weight over the past few months. Could she now be Four Bellies maybe?
Cows have four stomachs don’t they?
More cud?
More arseholes?
More tripe.
More Bullshit. (yes, I know cows aren’t male, but that’s all Jakki spouted, the grubby little porno-addicted stench trench).
paying interns well is better than not paying them at all. when they dont get paid well you just get a bunch of rich kids who can afford to live of their parents income (or in their posh spare london flat for no rent) while interning in parliament. we have enough silver-spooned posh tossers in parliament already.
do you really think a 30k job will go to someone who is not connected?
bollocks -wake up
Wrong.It will go to a rich kid whose parents are members of the Newlab nomenklatura.No party in history has believed in the hereditary principle more than this scum.
I never realised they got paid so little. How – seriously – can anyone manage in London on a pittance like £30,000? This bloody Labour government should be ashamed of itself.
I’m inclined to agree. It’s piss-all nowadays given that everything apart from the quality of life has gone up under Nu Labour. I feel sorry for any poor fucker who has to prostitute themselves for such a shite wage.
What I mean is that 30k after tax isn’t even enough to take a shit in Charing Cross station every morning and have enough to eat afterwards.
I’d just like to correct what I said in my previous posting before some smart-arsed fucker picks up on it. What I mean was that it takes a lot more than 3k0 to live in London for 6 months, let aone a year.
It’ll be Georgia Gould, or someone of that ilk.
“Interns” do seem to have mushroomed inside these big glass buildings, over the last 12 years or so…
….how surprising.
Perhaps it’s that real capitalist firms can’t afford the time or the space to house and “train” these little buggers. Only the pretend ones, in the NewLab Loop can do so.
3 summers of internship = £30k of fees. Thats how we put our children through uni. How do you lot manage?
Easy. Tie a knot in it. Then you don’t end up with kids emptying your wallet.
Simple: don’t send them to “uni”….
Either move heaven and earth, preferably by downplaying your are their opportunities in life, to get them into a Hard-Science degree at either of the Two Universities, or else send them out to work aged 16 or after A-levels, to make their way.
“Uni” is a GramscoFabiaNazi de-civilisation construct. It is intended to produce State-snooper-bureauNazis in droves. After all, the stazi needed 10% of the whole country’s population.
The most worthwhile thing they do at “uni” is shag each other and get rat-arsed.
Typical.
Typical what?? Bunch of crap?Pile of shit?? Be more Forthright speak your mind if you have one
Shut it!
Yeah and dat goes for your cat an all.
The correct form is “Shut it you slag!”, you slag.
Ooooh – boys on sticks!
The Department for Energy and Weather have an intern, but the ‘terms of reference’ for interns are still being developed. This implies that they have no idea what to do with the current intern. Is he/she being energetic or is he/she changing the climate? Incidentally, interns and employees (unlike committees) don’t have terms of reference, they have terms of employment.
The intern has been tasked with developing the terms of employment for interns.
Tony blair’s kids were interns weren’t they?
Isn’t a fuckin intern some preppy twat who works in Washington DC? Like some fat bird with nice skin and too much lipstick who is prepared to blow the President? Isn’t that a fookin intern?
Since when did the Mother of all Parliaments start employing interns for fooks sake?
Who’s been watching too much West Wing?
I always thought an intern was a doctor whose voice hadn’t yet broken. My battered dictionary says: “Advanced student or recent graduate residing in hospital & acting as assistant physician or surgeon [after French interne].”
More pretension. MPs call their Saturday morning meetings “surgeries” FFS, just as if they cured anything or cut out the CANCER THAT IS NEW LABIA.
(Sorry about the shouting, they just get to me sometimes.)
‘Intern’ is just the modern PC term for ‘tea-boy’.
Hey Engineer, didn’t you make tea for the guy that taught you your trade and become an ENGINEER..??
No. Professors made their own tea.
Then your no fuckin engineer..!! You superciliousness becomes you…
@Phil
Good point mate.
How ironic, for a socialist government to accept people working for no wage when they introduced the minimum wage.
There will be 20 before you know it, and then they will all need secretarial support.
And so the pyramid grows again.
That would depend on wether the secretaries wanted ‘support’ from interns, or wether they preferred ‘support’ from higher grades with expense accounts.
Itz onlee uvver peepls muhneee!
hur hur hur.
Can’t the buggers type then?
So what’s Facebook for?
Can I apply? I don’t have any relevant qualifications, but I can spell and even make a stab at a bit of punctuation. I would try pretty hard for 29K.
Can you make tea? Yes? The job’s yours.
How prepared would you to be lectured at and patronised by the likes of Prescott, Mandelson, Brown, Straw, Harman….etc?
Bit of enjoyment for conspiracy theorists : Ah but did the goverment fill the universties with students so that they would feed bank friends more lucrative debts ??
mainly so they could keep the unemployment figures down.
The GORGON…So, it seems you have some insight into my masterpiece from the Manse , but it is too late, you are all in my thrall now, repeat after me: debt is good, debt is very good but even more debt is even better (for some).
The pay is high because its such an unsavoury job – making sandwiches for McSnot with his, err, favourite filling in.
http://www.aol.com
“In 1997 we spent £93 billion on social security benefits, but next year we will spend £193 billion”
Good going Gordon you fucktard clusterfuck
Add this to the increase of 1,500,000 public sector jobs since 1997 and we really do have a huge pile of Socialist shit to eat
Dear tootle
The Prime Minister has monitored your comment on Order order and wishes to let his view on the matter, and his response to your observation be recorded.
For the record the prime minster would like it known that “It all started in America”
and
“It wasn’t me”
He hopes that this will satisfy you.
yours sincerely
Bill Quango MP
Deputy Prime Minister 18th of August,
{ after which it is Dennis Skinner; under the new ‘everyone gets a turn, even the opposition, so there can’t be another coup while I’m on holiday’ policy of leadership.}
Not to eat. To abolish. Dave is going to be busy getting rid of this lot.
unfortunately, Nell, Dave isn’t going to do any such thing. he will use what he needs to use to maintain his position. things will be little different. bet ya
right royal. I think you could be wrong. Let’s wait and see.
I hope you’re wrong there royal, there’s plenty of billions to be cut when people earning 90 grand a year can still claim certain “means-tested” benefits – if they have enough kids!
Pretty generous, even by Civil Service standards – most interns in other Depts would be on an AO salary (2 grades below HEO).
Bet that:
a) The person in question is a senior official’s son / daughter
b) The post was not advertised.
Definitely worth a follow-up PQ from Mr Willis….
This government has shown that there is no question so broad in scope or so narrow and specific that they cannot dodge and claim it was all your fault for being ambiguous.
They are the ‘I did not have sex with that woman’ government.
What odds on this intern being an entirely randomly selected member of a card-carrying Labour apparatchiks family.
Not at all! Rachel Miliband got the position entirely on merit!
I thought it was Deidre McBrown McHoon McSpeaker…???
No, no and thrice no.
Sappho Harman passed many a stringent test to gain the position.
The thing is all these (champagne) socialists imagine that everybody out there is bringing in at least £40,000 a year, well they must be mussent they or how could they possibly afford to live after 12 years of NLP?
What is an INTERN then?
It’s an American term, that’s come into this country due to Monica Lewinsky, the most famous intern ever. Before that, no-one here had ever used the word, or heard of it.
It’s been used by commentators recently to describe people who work for no money, basicallly as unpaid apprentices. Now Fawkes has found an example of an “intern” paid more than the national average wage.
Apparently “when I use a word, it means what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.”
An INTERN is somebody who keeps her dress in the freezer.
Next question.
I gather that the famous stain was not what everyone supposed. An analysis was carried out, and the stain was found to be soup. Cock-a-leekie, specifically.
surely an intern is someone, medical in persuasion, who works on Mash or ER??
But were her neeps bashed,eh?
We pay our graduate interns £20,300, either pro rata for three 2-month sessions in the holidays of their final term in university, or pro-rata for a 6 month period after they graduate. They spend 2 months each in programme management, finance and commercial departments, as well as 6 long weekends on leadership and development training. If they are offered a long term position at the end and accept, they get a joining bonus of £3K on top of typically a £25K salary. I think that’s fairly good, but clearly not as well paid as a Civil Service HEO on £29K. Most HEO’s in the Civil Service have put in 5-10 years work.
Its all semantics; intern , job placement, teaboy… but for £29,191 (pro rata) I could do that, giz a job! i’m that desperate i will lick your knob Lord Mandy
oh, god , no
Race riot ‘cover-up’
A police force slammed for being politically correct tried to COVER UP a weekend race riot.
More than 60 Asians were said to have stormed The White House pub where families gathered after a football game.
Several people were beaten up as terrified women and kids fled.
But Bedfordshire police, who sent in 100 officers, said the Luton attack “did not warrant comment.”
Steve Dann, 26, who was hit by a bottle in the incident, said: “There was blood everywhere.”
Earlier this year Bedfordshire police stood by as Muslim fanatics abused hero British soldiers on a homecoming parade in Luton town centre.
How come you don’t call yourself Saxon North, the site for the ethnic english you copied and pasted your entire post from?
Umm, it was actually in the Sun:-
http://www.petaimg.com/u473/519dsc00493o.jpg
The BBC wish it to be known that we only deal in real news as explained to us by the government. Thank you
In the Sun….it must be true then.The Sun being the bible of truth.
Yeah coz the labour party and the bbc wouldn’t lie to us would they like
innit?
I wonder what the MP for Luton South might have to say on the matter, especially given that she has said nothing on any subject in public nor been seen in town for the last couple of months…?
http://andrew-allison.blogspot.com/2009/08/margaret-moran-absent-mp.html
It would be an interesting statistic to find out what proportion of council employees are related to the local MP or town/borough councillors.
The impression I have, without reliable statistics, is that some local councils have a surprisingly high number of senior officials who are related to present or former political office holders.
Some people believe that nepotism is OK. I don’t.
Sorry I don’t think it will be as much as you think. You have to remember most councils these days are tory or lib dem. I don’t think many labour one’s are left.
Housing Associations however, particularly where you have certain baronesses living, do have a significant number of family member emplyed in their midst. This might be a worthier subject for investigation.
Thank you Nell. I’ll tell my son to stop chatting up that MP’s daughter forthwith.
well, I could tell you about a certain family in welwyn hatfield council, who would rather pretend that they don’t ‘know each other’ if you know what I mean – call the housing maintenance department….say you’ve got a leak….
New Labour – Expensive & Shit
The Tories can use that one free of charge at the election, also if they want
Gordon Brown – Twat
David Milliband – Arse Hole
Ed Millband – Cake Boy
Cake? In the bloody cabinet now. God fucking help us all!
Milliband Edward is only eating cake until he grows a pair of female breasts, he is very interested in equality and diversity (the dance ensemble)
If they’re working in london, then £29,191 pro-rata is probably about right for that kind of job; any less and they wouldn’t be able to afford to eat if they’re living anywhere near london.
having said that, my guess is that it’s a labour MPs kid who’s fucking loaded anyway and living off daddy and only doing the job for fun while they wait for their plane ticket to barbados to come through the post, and who got the job because of either their family connection or their labour party membership/work.
still, at least they don’t pay slave wages like the private sector is allowed to do, and I’m very surprised at that because Brown has been the main person trying to enforce “apprenticeships” on employers while not protecting the “trainees” with the minimum wage (even forcing 14 year olds to work for free if they want to pass their exams).
“any less and they wouldn’t be able to afford to eat if they’re living anywhere near london.”
so how are disabled people on £7000 per year supposed to live then????
Maybe they should try living on £64 per week dole money.
I’d apply for the job myself if I thought I stood an earthly of getting it.
or they should try the £53.10p per week carer’s allowance but that would probably be spent in about 5 minutes
Spot on nubnutts!!!!
Carers work a damn sight harder than any politician does and quite frankly, I don’t think any of the MP’s presently in parliament would be generous of spirit enough to give up their lives in toto, in order to take care of anyone.
They probably spend a lot more than £53.10 on a bottle of wine to wash down their lunches.
What a disgraceful crop of parliamentarians we have!
I was assuming that the £29,191 was supposed to cover all their living costs and that they don’t get any benefits. If you had any kids and live in london and don’t get any benefits then earning £29,191 gross with no benefits/credits would put you pretty much on the poverty line.
If you earn £7000/year and are disabled then you’d get a lot of extra cash from the government I assume, such as council tax rebate/benefit, tax credit or other benefits, or maybe a council/free house.
So it’s not really comparing like-with-like to compare disabled (or the below) listed people’s “income” with the intern’s income. It’s like saying that an MP only earns £64,000 when in fact their various tax-free expenses and family-given jobs takes them up easily to an equivalent gross salary of over £100,000.
I’m not saying that disabled people, carers, pensioners, etc are given a fair deal, but I am saying that you need to compare like-with-like.
I’m in a similar situation to the intern, in that I earn just enough that the government won’t give me any meaningful benefits/credits, and I have kids, but I don’t really earn enough to pay all the bills.
People in the £25k to £30k bracket with kids are by far the worst off under labour; we get fucked both ways; no benefits but increased taxes, especially regressive taxes like council tax. Our actual disposable income is probably about half what someone’s is who’s on the dole; my disposable income’s pretty much negative once i’ve paid the mortgage and food/utility bills etc.
I am also in a similar situation, only I work in the private sector for £21k a year. It soon goes with wife and kids. I don’t work in London and local transport is not as accomodating here so I have to drive to work. Petrol has just gone up again. I don’t get benefits or relief aprt from child benefit because I foolishly married my loved one and we wanted the kids to have a stable life. However 29k for a fucking tax dodging uni leaver! what the fuk has he or she got it to spend on. Won’t have a mortgage at that age and probably lives with mummy and daddy or daddy and daddy or mummy and mummy around notting hill. This is just a bit of pocket money for them 3 months work wossat about 7and a half K and no tax probably.
Since this shower of villains conned their way to power even charity workers have sky high salaries,(well its because we are socialists,we care and therefore we are worth it!).Like that snotty little ruth who had her collar felt when her old boss Blair was suspected of flogging seats in the H O Lords.
Her old job had been starting “the big issue” which is typical newlab product placement ,you import immigrants to flog left wing shite to gullible natives and so firmly planting the notion that being kind is a left-wing thing.My favourite analogy of modern times was live aid ,at the first live-aid all those years ago ,the Irish gobshite asked the people to give him their fucking money last time around they asked the government for the money!!!! (debt relief)
Of course there is no way was it set up by saint tonys pr guys as he and the doomster gave it a moments thought and said shucks it would be nasty not to let all those dictators pay themselves at the UK Taxpayers expense and nodded it through as the boys had thrown a great show.
Remember Geldof and Bono dont pay Tax to the British Treasury and as far s I am aware they pay little to the Irish treasury as well. Nothing like Rich c unts asking for money from others to make them look like humanitarians Come on Bono show us your Tax return to see how much you actually “donate” for these “worthwhile” projects you implore our Government to undertake.
As of 2006 the U2 and hotel earnings have been moved from Ireland to HOLLAND to faclitate the saints tax avoidance,but that does not stop mr sunglasses from lecturing the the Irish people/government on their duties to maintain current international aid spending on developing countries and developing dictators despite falling exchequer revenues caused by the recession which “STARTED IN AMERICA” and is worsened by selfish twats hoarding earnings abroad.
The Irish recession started in Ireland when the entire fucking population took leave of their senses and bid up the price of housing to astronomical levels. They then borrowed against the insane ‘value’ of their newly appreciated assets and bought new cars, jet skis, golf club membership, foreign holidays and holiday homes in Bulgaria. Oh, and a couple of off-plan houses in Ballyduff. For investment.
Because you can’t go wrong with property.
Same as the UK. But Ireland at least had the excuse that they had never had a property boom here. We, by contrast had one a mere 20 years ago in the late 1980′s. In the political lifetime of this entire governmet of fucking imbeciles. And what did they do? Denied flat out that all this ‘prosperity’ was merely borrowed money on the imaginary value of our insanely over-priced houses.
No, quite the opposite. Claimed it was because they were running a prudent economic strategy and emphatically not pump-priming the lunacy by borrowing and squandering 30bn quid a year.
The lying fucking arseholes.
Fucking Bonio – he really takes the biscuit.
Bono is a twat
If there’s any Irish musician who really deserves the accolade of ‘twat’ then it is me.
That Bono is just a copy-twat.
Have you noticed, when a well-oiled star has trouble with his tax bill, government comes to the rescue and they “come to an amicable arrangement”.
This arrangement has, in the past, meant that said stars have paid much less than the actual tax bill. Something not afforded to us minions, eh?!
Crap “musicians” too, the pair of them.
Geldof is an evil looking bastard too – I wouldn’t trust him to take a dog for a piss.
His parenting skills are legendary
I thought musician was a very strange description by Geldof of himself, the Belgian TWAT,yep he is of belgian stock which means he is from nowhere at all, at all at all etc
These intern positions will be filled by young graduates recently come straight out of Uni where they immersed themselves in Student Politics. Their goal will be to become Labour MP’s without ever having held down a real job outside the Political Village. Career Politicians on the make.
Yes.It means an advantageous entry on the CV of another member of the self-perpetuating Newlab “elite”.Perhaps we should call it the Georgia Gould syndrome-Socialists only,no proles need apply.
INCEST
Ewan Bliar was an intern at the White House. I wonder how he got that?
Eschewed the Iraq/Afghan career path then?
His internship was with Republican elements of the House Rules Committee. Bit like having Carol Thatcher plumping Vaz’s cushions.
So to speak.
Purley as a result of the normal pplication process, oh how we laughed we we realised on his arrival that his father was the PM of Great Britain.
True story.
During the last foot and mouth outbreak, a farmer rang DEFRA to arrange a movement licence for his bull. A long list of questions was asked, culminating in “What sex is your bull?”.
DEFRA clearly had a Labour-educated intern on that job.
Sorry Eng I saw this and laughed.
Let’s face it our urban champagne socialists, this anti-rural Labour Govt wouldn’t know one end of a bull from the other!
How come they keep spouting it then?
The bull they spout is urban bull – quite different to rural bull.
For rural bull you have to be born and bred. It’s a language all of it’s own and labour doesn’t speak it!!!!
Th edisease was perpetuated becuase a diseased animal was worth the full market value (as recompensed by the government) whereas a healthy animal was worth nothing because it could not be sold.
So the stories of diseased animals being “hired” out to infect the flock were not bullshit.
No doubt a friend of the family is now on this gold plated intern wage. That’s no joke, there WILL be a vested interst here, that is what new Labour do best.
On the question of employment how can this be:
‘Sex pest’ BBC presenter Hardeep Singh Kohli gets Radio 4 job during One Show ‘leave’
AND
he/his family have been prosecuted for being slum landlords by Glasgow
Council.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1207453/Sex-pest-One-Show-presenter-Hardeep-Singh-Kohli-gets-new-BBC-job-Radio-4.html#ixzz0OYns5Pwe
Talking of the baronessU – anyone know whether the police are any nearer to a prosecution?
only 17 miles to go Nell, it’s tough out here
17 miles to honour our injured soldiers and gordon couldn’t be bothered.
Says everything!!!!
SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!!!
Hardeep Singh Kohli is an anti-English racist bastard. Alex Salmond would be so proud.
Another product of Glasgow poisoned against his blameless neighbours.
And yet he lives in a country that has to put ‘Don’t stab the blacks’ on their advertising hoardings. Well, not quite that. But that’s what it boils down to.
Carol Thatcher only said the word golliwog and is forced to resign, while this twat actually keeps them in cages, and gets rewarded with employment. WTF is that all about?
HSK is a pain in the arse. Thinks the sun shines out of it. Constantly going on about being Scottish. Specialises in espousing loved British customs. Tries to be funny, but is about as funny as the gorgon on a good day. Plenty of Scots find him insulting!
A lefty, jock, ethnic with not enough shoulders for all his chips to rest on.
Nice to see him shafted, to see him shafted nice.
You BASTARDS. I earn 12,000 a year doing a job I enjoy rather than the best paid one I can get. Used to get 50 quid an hour as an IT security consultant but got fed up with that crap. Out of my GROSS I lose 150quid a month in income tax/NI wastage and another 150 a month in council tax. So that is 30% of my income GONE on the day I get paid. All to pay some those Hoons who work for the government. HOW THE FUCK IS IT RIGHT???????????? GIVE ME MY FUCKING MONEY VBACK YOU Hoons OR I PROMISE I WILL SNAP EVENTUALLY AND KILL YOU GOVERNMENT MOTHERFUCKERS.
You really musn’t reduce yourself to gordon’s level of losing control of one’s anger. It is too demeaning.
Try anger management courses. I’m sure you have the intelligence for it. Gordon, of course, does not.
When can you snap? Sooner is better than later!
Keep flippin dem burgers charlieboy.
Don’t make burgers, I’m afraid. As for you nell, what good will anger management courses be? My anger is perfectly correct. If someone can tell me WHAT I am getting for my taxes I would be grateful. So far I am paying stupid amounts in NIC’s so that todays crop of old Hoons can sponge off the state, as their generation always has, even though I won’t be getting a pension (am in my early twenties right now). How is that right?????????????
Todays crop of old spongers, sorry, I mean people, got FREE university (as in, they didn’t have to rack up stupid debts), affordable housing AND a pension. Let the old folks fucking rot. If they never got themselves a private pension then that is their bad luck, why should I have to pay for their irresponsibility?
Thank you for your generosity in paying taxes to keep me & the missus in luxury on about £12K per annum.
How much tax have I paid over the years to keep old codgers alive – a shed load – now its MY turn.
Nearly Headless Nick, WHY??? You old Hoons are the reason I am paying so much tax. What have you EVER given to me???????????? Wow, I got to goto Uni and pay for the priviledge. Did you? NO, you got a fucking grant. You already got what you paid your taxes for so fuck and die. Then I won’t have to pay for you any more.
Who payed for your primary and secondary education? Who payed for your healthcare? Who payed the Child Allowance your parents collected for you?
Now fuck off and grow up, you ignorant little shit.
What do I care who paid for my primary and secondary education? Why does that mean I should pay YOUR FUCKING PENSION? You got free primary and secondary education, did you not? You paid taxes all your life, no? As have I. So why THE FUCK should YOU get a state pension and FREE UNI yet my generation can’t?
Also have to add, YOUR GENERATION IS THE ONE WHO ELECTED LABOUR YOU Hoons.
If you had actually given some fucking thought to WHO you elected maybe we wouldn’t have this fucking mess. Old Hoons all stuck in their “we will vote labour/conservative/lib dem cos that is who we vote for” mindset. Why don’t you grow up and accept responsibility for YOUR choices?
If this is the measure of the Nulab generation, Britain is truly fucked.
Couple of things.
1) You only get out of life what you put in.
2) Life ain’t fair. Get used to it.
So if life isn’t fair then why should I pay for your pension? Sure, maybe you’ve paid 50 years of NIC’s, but life isn’t fair so if you don’t get a pension then get over it.
Once again, if you were too fucking childish to get yourself a private pension, then why the fuck should others have to pay for you?
You only get out of life what you put in? So can I honestly expect to get back the 30% I am paying in taxes? Of course not, it will never happen. I am young and in good health because I TAKE CARE OF MY BODY. I have private medical insurance AND a PRIVATE pension for a hell of a lot less than I pay in NIC’s. I have never claimed benefits. Why should I be obligated to pay NIC’s?
You don’t pay my pension, I don’t draw one yet. I have a private pension, and I’ve seen it raided by Gordon Fucking Brown – money I earned and saved for my future being appropriated without my consent.
Why should you pay for other people’s pensions? Because we all do.
If you think a pension into which you pay less than the NIC rate will give you a decent pension, you haven’t done your sums. Seriously – get that checked out.
If you mouth off about Labour voters on this site, you haven’t done your research. Not many people who post on this site are, or ever have been, Labour supporters. I certainly didn’t vote for them.
If you are one of those who went through the education system being told that life is great, nobody ever fails, you can do anything you want – you where sold a great big lie. Life is tough, you have to work bloody hard to get pretty much anything – and you are better off than many, you have a job of sorts. About 6 million (officially 3 million – but nobody believes official figures) are unemployed, most not by their own choice.
Now for all our sakes, stop whinging and grow up.
I love your tax money!
The LSE’s Parliamentary Internship Programme was founded in conjunction with the Huddersfield Labour MP Barry Sheerman in 1998.
It offers graduate students an opportunity to apply for UNPAID Parliamentary Internships at Westminster as part of their advanced studies. They have to be able to work at least one day per week.
The figures for 2004 (sorry can’t find figures for any later) show that the LSE provided 60 students for such placements that year.
So why exactly has the Dept for Energy and Climate Change (what precisely does this Dept do?) decided to pay £29K pro rate when it could have students for free?
Talk about chucking other people’s money about!
nell, I’m sure the devil is in the detail. If someone can get the name of the intern all will become clear.
Interns in the private sector rarely earn more than their train fare, they are students desparate to put something on their CV other than a bar job in the Students’ Union – there’s obviously a good reason why the DECC are paying an intern so much, it’s probably ‘cos it’s someone’s son or daughter.
A bloody disgrace. I was an HEO for a while, nice to know they think people of this grade are worth the same as people with no knowledge or experience of government service. A slap in the face too for the thousands of people below HEO grade working to keep the country going, too.
How long are we going to have to endure this bunch of goons? But will Dave be any better?
I doubt it. Dave’s nieces, nephews, god-sons and god-daughters will be needing a leg up the employment ladder in due course too.
Luckily there will be a whole slew of civil service jobs becoming available shortly when Dave uses the same ‘raid the opposition MP’s offices and fire the mole’ strategy pioneered by the lunatic in number 10. I see a purge of civil servants. A positively McCarthyite purge with the rats denouncing each other to protect their own careers.
That numpty Brown and Smith, his handmaiden in idiocy, has no idea what they have unleashed.
Nell please, Dept for Energy and Climate Change will provide you with the perfect environment, if the climate is changing too much one way or the other for you… too Hot? too Cold?, just contact Wayne Spotty on £29K, sorted.
I’d just like to thank the people at the Climate Change department for the splendid job they’ve done changing the climate this past couple of weeks after a frankly miserable July.
Good work chaps. Keep up the paperwork.
Oh Please!!! Don’t get me started on climate change – this natural phenomoenon that ebbs and flows over thousands of years.
Gordon wants us to believe that the current global warming is caused by us and therefore we must pay taxes as penance.
Now even Obama has jumped aboard the ‘man is destroying the planet’ bandwagaon – no doubt he too thinks there is a useful tax to be had out of the hapless taxpayer for it.
And then we have the G20 at Pittsburgh next month to discuss just this subject. gordon will be proclaiming himself as the next environmental messiah and making sure he gets that photo op next to Obama Beach on the podium absolutely convinced its the shot that’s going to win him the next election.
Nauseating!!!!
The one shot that will win the next election is if whoever assasinates Brown stands for Parliament himself.
Climate change is onlt natreal. You see, the romans woodn’t have built aquaducks if it was too cold but they had grapes as it was a warm climate in the capital of the UK at the time-lundunium on the river thames.
That tree hugging Liberal Bush even tried to tell us climate change was real along with those thousands of so called scientists who are all greenpeace activists. As if so called scientists would be able to differentiate between natural climate cycles.
Even Cameron has jumped on the bandwagon with his windpowered bicycle! The meusli eating socialist.
FOX News tells me it’s all rubbish and if far right lunatics don’t know the intricacies of climate science then who does ?
Besides, the Republican god botherers tell us only God can create floods like those is in the bible. Case closed.
Sickening!
Refuse the tv tax down with the bbc!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Scrap the licence fee – let the bbc sink or swim by its own merit.
Let’s see who wants to pay a commercial fee for Eastenders.
And the BBC revelations about Guy Burgess, his expenses (during wartime), swanning around — I thought, no change there then.
Flooding the public services with interns wil do nothing to help solve the problems caused by this outrageous government . This flooding will happen
because Brown has never hesitated to buy votes .
All of the talk of improvements in the British economy is totally nonsensical and is mere wishful thinking by panic stricken Labour supporters .
Brown will continue to tinker at the edges of the vast problems and this intern scheme is a good example of a cretin in action .
Cameron told the imbecile nearly a year ago that the only way to stimulate
real improvements is to vastly incease the government guaranteed loan scheme for medium and small businesses
Just a fraction of the funny money sanctioned by Brown would have done the trick, but that of course would have deprived him of cash with which to pay for
the crazy schemes like this intern nonsense .
Actually ,Dave has done the nation a disservice by doling out this advice in a public place . He should have had a word in private because Brown is such a blind fool (metaphorically– not a Clarkson reference ) that he will stubbornly
refuse to accept a tory idea because he cannot see beyond his partisan claptrap .
I have a brother like that. You cannot tell him anything. You cannot save him from himself.
No matter how self-evidently good some course of action you suggest is he will come up with some convoluted series of bizarre scenarios or excuses as to why he can’t/won’t do something sensible then attempt to demonstrate how ‘wrong’ you are by pursuing the exact opposite course of action.
This, inevitably, leads him to fuck up spectacularly and blame any number of self-evident, entirely fucking predictable ‘fluke occurences’.
‘I wasn’t to know…’
‘They stitched me up…’
It’s not just that the stupid c-unt ignore your well intentioned advice. It’s that, in order to prove their independence they go and do exactly the opposite. If they did nothing at all they couldn’t go too far wrong. But with any 50:50 choice with a 90:10 likely outcome they’ll plump for the fucking 10% outcome. Because you suggested the 90% likely outcome. But by Christ you never hear the end of the 1 in 10 times they get it ‘right’.
A lot like Gordon Brown actually.
Which is why I am so well qualified to tell you what a nasty, devious, mendacious fucking imbecile he is.
As usual jgm2 you are spot on the money .Excellant analogy .
Is he in fact your brother?
No. But their capacity to fuck up the lives of people who have to suffer their imbecile decisions, pronouncements and sheer pig-headed mendacity is in equal measure.
Are you Gordons Brother jgm2, and are you still not answering the door to that nice reporter wanting to talk to you about your cleaning arrangements ?
> Cameron told the imbecile nearly a year ago that the only way to stimulate
real improvements is to vastly incease the government guaranteed loan scheme for medium and small businesses
Another reason i won’t vote for Dave’s party. What a terrible idea.
Cut the punishment for success.
Cut the punishment for employing someone.
Cut the punishment for working.
Govt loans= terrible idea.
This government doesn’t do loans. It simply prints money.
But you have a point. Government loans will inevitably end up being made to politically connected individuals. And if they’re spending their time getting politically connected then they won’t be doing a very good job running their business in the first place.
Which is why it needs a loan. And another one. Just till things pick up you understand. Just to keep 100 people employed in this marginal constituency…
See. Like I said. One in ten. Although again he’ll more likely have been motivated by his inability to make sure that no Tories snuck through and borrowed any money.
But stacked against printing 175bn quid and nborrowing another 200bn quid it is a small ‘victory’ for the imbecile. And, given his track record we can be sure it was an accidental one achieved for all the wrong reasons.
You won’t get a government loan without filling in a 48-page form stating how many ethnics, cripples and illiterate idiots you employ. Which is why you need the loan in the first place. QED.
How sad it is that we cannot even discuss the idea of loans to businesses without immediately thinking that they will be used for political purposes in an election year??
Has nothing changed since Shirley Porter & Co. 20 years ago?
No sorry plenty has changed as in those days many who got caught were punished in someway whether it be with Jail ( Archer, Aitken ) or resignations etc. Nowdays nobody but nobody gets punished and the Law comes nowhere near them. Absolutley scandalous.
H ow else will small to medium businesses survive after being bled dry by new labour?
Emigrate.
Emigrate to somewhere with a functional economy.
Don’t forget that the poor fuck has to provide blow jobs on demand as part of his package.
On a cheerful note, news from the government that rail travel will cost 0.4% less next year on SOME tickets. This ultra good news means that a ticket costing £100 would be reduced by 40p! You’ll be glad about that then? Apparently we have to be happy that fares won’t be rising as per usual. Thanks gorgon your generosity knows no bounds.
Thta’ll be a load of shit too. Private Eye has the inside track on how any rail tickets will be reduced in price. Basically the train operators will simply renege on their contract and demand several hundred million pounds extra for running the services they promised.
This will be the government trying to portray a similar heist by the rail companies in a positive light. Yeah, we gave them an extra five billion quid this year and in return they knocked 10 million quid off the price of tickets.
This government redefines incompetent.
O/T Sorry . Interesting story today in the Yorkshire Post. Ed Blls has a new constituency to fight in the 2010 election. Morley and Outwood.
EdB expects to win it with a 9000 majority but has apparently been rather divisive up there and made some enemies. Bookies reckon this could be the biggest defeat of the 2010 election night.
Yes Please!!!!
It is not enough that c-unts like Balls suffer electoral defeat. I want them hounded for life. I want them unemployable. If the c-unt tries to get a job stacking shelves at Sainsbury’s I want Sainsbury’s fucking boycotted. I want Balls, Brown, Straw, Smith and the rest of this shower of c-unts utterly fucking unemployable.
Have you exhausted your stock of piano wire ?
Won’t need piano wire when the chickens come home to roost in June 2010. Joy!!!!
Come election night we’ll be ‘staying up for Balls’. The Krug’s already on ice.
Staying up for Balls …and Brown, and Darling, and Millipede, and Whacky, and Hazel Chipmunk, and “NHS” Burnham, but especially Bob Ainsworthless – hopefully losing to one of the recently retired generals.
Champagne bought already, in the expectation of a run on the stuff as soon as the election’s called!
You poor deluded people. What election night?
I think you should at least consider crucifixion as an option for Balls.
I second that motion!
I wholeheartedly agree jgm!
Are the bookies taking bets already?
If so, I’ll have a quid on all the present cabinet to be out of a job.
Oh how I agree!
Why has Balls had to move constituency? Has he so upset the good people of Normanton?
(OK – tongue in cheek – I happen to know that he is not popular in Normanton, since he very rarely shows his face, and makes little secret of his disdain for the place when he does slither in.)
I think it’s something to do with changed borders – but not sure.
Whatever. He’s not popular in his old constituency – he’s not popular in his new constituency – he’s not popular in the Education Department and he’s not popular with the general public –
I wonder if he gets the message?
He’ll make a fine PM, the beady eyed twat.
NOT in my Life time I Hope!!!!
He’s not beady eyed. he’s bug-eyed. he’s bulgy-eyed. But he sure as hell ain’t beady eyed.
The fucking lunatic spawn of satan.
Hmmm, PM – Parasitic Maggot?
PM = Peter the great mandelslime?
I hope to be there , hes my favourite as brucie would say
Well it wont make a jot of difference to most leftie nanny state apparatchiks who all manage fine in first class on the west coast mainline virgin service all are in their low to mid-twenties and so earnest in their demeanour they make all others paying for their own standard seats want to puke or punch.I regularly come across them travelling between london and their spiritual home manchester where their co-workers at the BBC soon decamp to,one big happy commie family!
Have run into same tribe of bollocks-wafflers myself but the only base i want these “blue sky outside the box thinkers” to touch is jobcentre plus.And I do not want them replaced with a tory version either,they are unnecessary tell them to go forth and EARN a living.
August 18, 2009 at 10:16 pm
And who are you some gray middle aged 38 year old using my laptop and eating a packet of extralarge crisps!!!Im watching you
Your a feckin brummie our kid,,ya hoon only someone with yank spell-check on their pc spells grey as gray, away to bed brat,ya hoon!
So while soldiers are fighting and dying in Afghanistan for barely 20K a year, another “non-job” is filled … for three months … and for £29K.
And Gordon Brown wouldn’t travel 17 miles to attend the opening of the new Erskine Centre for wounded soldiers.
I guess he didn’t fancy another Obama beach welcome. Or a Hannan moment for the TV cameras.
He was taking the tough choices. By hiding at home.
Privates are earning £16K.
Who’s worth more them or Bob’aintbustinagut’ ??!!!
Choices.
1) Die for your country on less than 20k a year.
2) Learn to Lie to your country on over 20k a summer break.
Gordon Browns a prick
this is just fucking out of order. older people and people with disabilities have an income of about £7000 or less and called scroungers for their trouble. these shitty fucking government posts are out of fucking order. I want my money back and i want this fucking government to die NOW
Yep You got it in ONE!!!!
Could I respectfully urge you to use a tag with no connotations of age ,our masters do not like useless eaters,it is specifically people like you they have in mind for euthinasia/dignified death.Look after yourself tag as teenager in future!
thanks for the advice
how’s the new name? better?
Never mind Dudes, ten o’clock tonight the ukulele orchestra of Great Britain is playing live at the Proms, U can hear it on R3.
Much to the disgust of the establishment this venu at this year’s proms sold out FIRST.!!!!
Ivor Biggun is also an exponent of the ukulele.
At least we can all sing along to the Dambusters March in the programme.
We all hate Balls and Brown,
We all hate Balls and Brown,
We all hate Balls and Brown,
We all f*88ing hate Brown…
eeebyegum…I remember ‘when i’m cleaning winders’ it was great. so was ‘leaning on a lamp post’ who can forget des o’conner???
I saw this on the Queens BBC this evening and was appalled by the newscasters obvious admiration for this humbug. Some chappie also brought his own ukelele to join in. Absolutely gut wrenchingly sad. An indication of how low we have fallen. Sad, sad, sad…..
We had hobson’s choice really Ukeleles or a choir of singalongamax impersonators and rolf harris playing with his didgeredoo – no contest really
Loved the ukelele stuff, hated the songs.
Lord Fondlebum’s intern only has to answer one question………
“Do you give good head?”
Wasn’t Clinton’s cocksucker an intern?
And who are you some gray middle aged 38 year old using my laptop and eating a packet of extralarge crisps!!!Im watching you
Fuck! 38 is ‘middle-aged’? Oh fuck.
58 is the new 38. Or something like that……
Guess i am the only 12 year old that uses this website to windup my dad and koff koff flinstone 38 x100 and u may find a pair of trousers that fit instead of the dress you wear in your film
thats my waist line lads ( koff koff)
HEO apparently stands for Higher Executive Officer. How the hell can someone with no experience be a Higher Executive Officer?
If they’re 6′-3″?
and a soon to be ex test all rounder
Kid, it’s like this……
Foist ya gotta be a regular Executive Officer, den ya gotta take a LOT of drugs.
right line em up and shoot them up the arse
the only person i would shoot is you
cheers lad , nice to know the aussies are shitting themselves
This Country is made up of tens of millions of diverse people(No one really has a grasp of how many) no two people are alike in all ways whether they are family,neighbours,co-religonists,gay,straight,swingers,fans of various football clubs,bands ,singers,writers,political parties or if they are vegan ,vegitarian or carnivore.So why on earth does this shower that pass as a government persist in the politics of identity to constantly divide the populace and create a social churn which does nothing but harm to the fabric of the UK.
An excellent book that explains this is “Liberal Fascism” BY Jonah Rosenberg .It traces its origins from the french revolution through Mussolini,Hitler and Roosevelt to todays US Democrats and our own scum. Please Guido launch the discussion/argument at your earliest convenience,as a fellow shamrock pimpernel I lived in the smoke in the nineties and was disgusted that ken livingstone wanted to plonk the Irish on the register of ethnic minorities simply to buy votes.The patronising Tit!
look we are all humans , underneath it all just flesh and bone, people make things so complicated
Certain people freddie or maybe that should be certain cretins ,no offence to Frank Field
whats the point of it just let and let live ( and dont bomb sovirgn countries iraq ) every leader should just sit down have a joint and a beer and will be sorted in a few hours , but no they want to fuck up our lives
No offense Freddy you retarded hippy but you sound like sme gay twat!!
no offense taken , now get in the nets and take it like a man
You speak for yourself matey boy, I’m not a mere human.
Not only am I a socialist, I’m a socialist with power and that puts me way above you sonny.
All together now: “some are more equal than others”.
Take him to the gulag!
lads our country has been fucked , our troops shit on , and a unelected pm ( mandy ) we have lost our rights , our voice , we should ask her majasty to dissolve parliment and call a election
Civil wear now please
Will a nice suit do.
no all whites ( unless it has aussie blood on it )
Or maybe a dictionairy SO YOU CAN LEARN HOW TO SPELL WAR AM I SPEAKING SLOW ENOUGH FOR YOU
see the aussies are back from work
Must be an aussie he does not Know the difference between speaking and typing.
he is a convict , not much intelligence
the lot of you can fuck off im irish
fed up of Australia all ready ??
Glenda Jackson employed her son as an assistant.
Very popular with the young ladies at parliament even after someone put his eye out with a broken glass.
I may be wrong but the guy who was fronting the anti B&P campaign during the last Euro elections looked just like him.
labour wouldnt do that ,,,,,, would they ???
STEP OUTSIDE YOUR BUBBLE FILLED WITH LEFT WING SHITE FREDDIE
the only left i know is siddy bowls quick left arm , he aint shit
He was in the West Indies.
dont mention the peadlo again lad
anyone wanna buy a bentley ?
I hear there is a new intern in town harry,no other fucker can afford nowt,get in quick before young un goes to John Lewis
Sorry translation needed my dads acting like a know it all and all us normal people need a translator oh and harry my dad wants to buy it fo me dont you cheapseats
NO
YES
I used to be undecided but now I am not sure.
lads i dont if you all seen this , made me laugh
Ah. Remuneration for this contract is based on £29,191 (pro rata)
Pro Rata is Latin for: “But we’ll pay you a f***ing pittance, in reality.”
In bed early tommorw night , and carefull at the tinnies and barbie evening , they useually try that dirnk more than you game , only they are on fosters
The most loquentious speeky libold fro by the pri minstral to dale. Welly dunlop Mr brownslop.
pull backi the sheeti , keep ye comfytibold when windy gust come , all tucki up in mattress and duvet
You need to change your dealer Freddie, he’s selling you some bad gear man.
So this intern, for £29,191, is “completing a meaningful piece of work” in the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
I’d be surprised if the entired department could produce a meaningful piece of work, in the sense that the rest of us would understand.
Government guaranteed loan schemes are a terrible idea claims ANTI CITIZEN 1.
Back in 1983 I was closely associated with a small business which got a government guaranteed loan which allowed it to employ 3 extra people immediately ,repaid the loan within 3 years and went on to build an annual turnover in excess of £2 m .
Without the loan,at best 2 existing employees would have lost their jobs .
The other possiibility was the business would have ceased trading .
I suspect that Anti Citizen 1 is paid by the Rt. Hon. James Gordon Brown or
is a lib dem frustrated that his party is terrified of ever gaining power— an entirely justified fear.
Everyones experiences are different,twelve months ago I employed 316 people (not personnel) Lloyds cut our factoring facility by 5% per week and demanded we reduce our overdraft weekly from 400k by increments of 10k.This happened at the very mention of a credit crunch,our business was in no way insolvent having a surplus of 325k over creditors on average monthly returns.we had a turnover of £12m per annum and were due £542k back from the revenue but they would not repay it any earlier than april 6,cos rules are rules, yes everone lost their jobs and I lost everything which did not stop creditors from threatening to kill me as a business of its standing posting annual figures as it did of good margins on high turnover could not be out of money surely.Then lloyds buys an insolvent scottish bank,I dealt with lloyds head branch in the city of london at leadenhall st they will know me by the details in this post,fuck them,sue me if u want wankers!
“were all on rations” ?? £400 a week take home , after rent and food still gives about £180 a week to blow .
good news house of lords have saved some dosh , commons still in las vegas .(be the Alamo by election time)
interesting snippet on trouble at rock
36% of its £62bn mortgage book is in negative equity , dont know if its comparably the worst , but might be worth asking how much is commercial .
govt scheme so far does not say what it will do about granite ? bag men and lady parchuted in have done well out govt rescue , whilst we are going to cop the toxic debt (which we still cannot enquire about)
Eric Pickles cheered me up no end “you might have expected me to be holidaying on a Li low with a kiss me quick hat” LOL
hang onto that pearl handled revolver, Cameron will need to be like James Stewart in “bend in the river” , although ime more of a Rooster Cockburn when it comes to corrupt Labour Liars , “are you gordon broon of the Marxist New World order gang “
i am ready to rumble , now pass the beer beefy
That’s an absolute disgrace – most MPs researchers are on way less than that.
[...] Wilt is thinking of giving up business and becoming an “Intern.” See Guido blog article here: http://order-order.com/2009/08/18/gold-plated-interns/ [...]
Defra HEO starting salary rose to £29,848 this month.
Speaking as a student with absolutely no disposable income, and a very insecure job, I find it as some comfort that a lucky sod managed to get a paid internship this summer, and a good one at that.
In contrast many other internships across the capital are offering no pay this summer, therefore only allowing students of rich families to gain the valuable experience and contacts on offer.
You say ” Only this government would pay someone with little to no experience more than the average national salary:”
but surly with the high salary on offer, and competition so high this summer, it would appeal to the best student with good experience and who would properly be better at the role than any civil servant starting at DEFRA.
I take your point Guido, It is quite high wage for an intern but with this government wasting so much money on failed IT contracts, management consultants, spin … (the list could go on) I find it quite a cheap blow to attack the pay of a Student intern.
The problem Antler my dear boy is that the suspision will be that the ‘best’ student just happened to be the son or daughter of somebody already very high up in the Labour party heirarchy.
There will be no ‘best’ about it. The Labour Party is every bit as nepotistic as the old boys network in the City. Merit doesn’t come into it. Which is why we have fuckwits like the Miliband and the Alexanders cluttering up public life with their imbecile pronouncements. Supported by Mandelson, Harman and championed in the in-house paper, the Gruaniad, by the likes of Toynbee.
Jobs for the boys. And girls.
And to hell with the rest of us.