Bankrupt Bloggers Resort To Slave Labour
Bankrupt lefty bloggers Left Foot Forward are in such dire financial straits that they have resorted to advertising for slave labour interns. They’ve spent too much and are running a deficit – you couldn’t make it up.
Back in 2011 the blog was among the fiercest critics of unpaid internships, jumping aboard the Intern Aware campaign lobbying the government to ban the practice. It ran posts including one titled “Unpaid Internships Are Wrong“, which suggested that offering young people jobs with no pay could be illegal and even asked for readers undertaking unpaid internships to contact them in confidence. Left Foot Forward also set up a “Living Wage Appeal“, part of which involved them promising to pay their interns. Their position was crystal clear.
Their stance hadn’t changed earlier this year either when they waded into the great workfare debate, arguing that: “The claim that it is aimed towards providing useful work experience that will lead to jobs is demonstrably untrue…Not only is it wrong, but it may actually reduce young people’s job prospects“. Pretty damning stuff…
Imagine Guido’s surprise, then, when he saw that the very same Left Foot Forward were advertising for an editorial intern to work in a “voluntary” capacity, without pay. Candidates are required to have “knowledge of HTML; picture editing; data analysis and presentation; journalistic experience; and a knowledge of progressive organisations”. Sounds like a real job to Guido, and they aren’t even paying travel expenses. Judging by the furious reaction in the comments, Left Foot Forward readers don’t approve of their new policy on slave labour. Guido is happy to report that he always pays his interns…
See above!
Do what we say, not what we do.
only if you pay me enough
I like Ribena I do.
SKIN UP, WILL.
Shove it up your arse then, and drink it.
I get paid very well for what little I do, – and I’m not qualified at all! – I just have ‘views’ – like how very wonderful Gordo is, – and will be when he returns in Triumph!!
“Guido is happy to report that he always pays his interns…”
…commensurate to the size of their tits?
Works for me!
Have they all been screened to work with gullible youngsters ? Sounds like a typical grooming set up to me.
Youngsters!…where are these free youngsters?
How is volunteering to do something for nothing slave Labour?
Will they still be able to claim Jobseeker’s Allowance?
They are not alone
UK trade deficit figures hit record high in June of £4.3bn, the largest since records began in 1997
Ah yes, but that’s 110%! The real figures are, wait a minute, I’ll get a calculator. A 2:2 in history from Oxbridge doesn’t qualify one to divide by eleven and multiply by ten, what!
I can tell straight away that is wrong! That is because the wrong language has been used – see it takes a PR expert to spot that!
The announcement should be written thus:
UK trade SURPLUS figures hit record high in June of £4.3bn, the largest since records began in 1997
I give you my word – and I think you can trust me by now!
fuck off Dave, you kosher c unt!
A fair days wage for a fair days communist propaganda!
Or, as the East Germans used to say;
“They pretend to pay us, we pretend to work”.
Hasn’t Left Foot Forward yet found a way to tap into the BBC for life support, like most other lefty parasitic outfits?
Brilliant. You couldn’t make this stuff up!
Vote ukip
+1
+ 110%
The Slave Labour Party, the perfect name to replace New Labour.
Hypocritical lefty wankers.
Arbeit muss Frei sein!
Amy Winehouse’s ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil is in a coma fighting for his life following an apparent drink and drugs binge
Fucking good.
He did well to make 30.
Darwin always wins in the end
Ahh bless.
Their is a god and justice may be done.
Any Winehouse would probably still be with us today if it were not for the influence of this ghastly drugged-up ponce.
Whether you liked her music or not, she did not deserve to die so young, her full talent unrealised and unfulfilled, just because of tragic skanks and smack-heads like “Blake Fielder-Civil”.
I hope he dies quickly so the NME can stop yapping on about the useless fucking oxyen-robbing c unt.
Blake Fielder-Civil! That’s a made-up name, right?
Kate Winslet dates a guy with THIS name: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2154841/Kate-Winslets-boyfriend-Ned-Rocknroll-joins-family-day-chores.html
Sums up The Lefties all too well, bankrupt of ideas, bankrupt of principles, and want others to work for them for nothing.
That rules out kids without trust funds, and connections to the Labour leadership.
Two faced Socialist scum, “don’t do as I do brigade.”
Polly Toynbee has nothing to do with this I trust?
It’s not so inconceivable! – We couldn’t possibly have imagined Clegg as DPM in April 2010!
It’d never happen. It’s be too easy to destroy Delingpole’s credibility.
Same applies to all parties generally, but Labour & Torys have enough brainwashed numptys on side for it to not matter.
A bonfire of the windmills sounds attractive.
As I have hinted before – necklace the fuckers with all those piles of used tyres.
Result!
Less of putting the Left Foot Forward, more putting the Left Foot In It.
I’ll sort it
Thanks for my next “exclusive ” Guido.
Hypocrisy & Mendacity.
It’s in Libor’s D-N-A.
I want an intern.
and what will their pay be Mr Brown (Plus danger money)
I mean internal.
I want to eat your poo
No. I’ve just discovered urethral soundings. Much more unusual. You can still learn new tricks, even at my age.
“Sounding” has been around for a while, Brownie luv– where’ve YOU been? No, I mean it, where’ve you been? Not at your bloody MP office FFS!
Kath, I am Scottish you know, it take a wee while to get up here.
Anything else new in the legislative pipeline?
And now their website is down…
Hmm
http://www.123-reg.co.uk/support/answers/Hosting/Hosting-Explained/how-do-i-renew-my-web-hosting-package-376/
Money is useful as well.
Isn’t the image on the banner at the top of a RIGHT foot?…Just asking
In the whole thing the left footprint comes after the word ‘forward’ – so it’s in front of the right foot you see in Guido’s truncated thumbnail. Even they aren’t that thick.
Not unless you have your toes on back to front!
The purple print is the footprint of a left foot whereas the white image is the view of the actual left foot coming down ……. coming down on the trodden legions of unpaid interns, slaving away in the hitec sweatshops of a socialist blogfactory.
Or if you want the true Orwellian horror of socialism:
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.
“We used to pay the living wage to interns, on six-month contracts, but we can no longer afford to do this. We now offer much shorter unpaid internships. Unpaid interns do not have set hours and tasks and can work from home to avoid travel costs.”
“We’d all like to get back to paid internships, we can only do this if we can afford to, by raising enough money through donations.
Regards,
Shamik”
‘Sham’ being the operative syllable!
The ‘ik’ should be ‘prick’ !!
Shamik?
A missing ‘bol’ in the middle there, surely.
Do as they say not as they do! This sums up the left, total hypocrites!
It’s instructive that the foot image LFF uses in its logo is in fact … a right foot.
You couldn’t make it up.
Click on the image and you will see that there is also a left foot in the banner -in Guido’s thumbnail you can only see part of the heel above the second letter ‘R’ in forward.
Bugger.
Are there any Tories that are not gayers?
Or EU loving Socialists?
Behind my foreskin there’s a strange smells of sugar puffs.
Where’s London?
i bet you got a free ticket and did not have to pay like the rest of us
Did Ten-Ton Tessa build you a park in Kirkcaldy with orangeade dispensing stations and a pie stall for a visiting Twatson?
in the play pen dear, – with the little children
buggering them?
“Happy Father’s Day– or, as I like to call it, ‘Brother-in-law’s’ Day.”
It is not slave labour – the rightwing Tory Judges and Poundland fatcat executives have already decided this.
So it’s OK.
if you claim the dole, you should be able to work not do some poncy internship in pen musium. Alternatively do what i did when unemployed not claim the dole and no one badgering you about job applications.
Remember its insurance and we all pay into it when we can. When you can’t it does help to pay the bills, that’s if you are not of independent means though.
It’s only slave labour when businesses that provide real jobs for people and help stimulate the economy by taking on interns. When the loony left and grasping unions do it, in order to destroy the jobs of those they are fighting for, it is acceptable voluntary work. It must be true as it says so in ‘The Dummy’s Guide to Cloud-cuckoo Land’.
Whatever today’s judges are, they certainly are not right wing. They are not even right, most of the time.
They need an exclusive advertising contract with us.
But we’re doing nicely anyway
Socialism of the purest sort. They ALWAYS run out of other people’s money.
Tough old business isn’t it lads?
Surely the Unions will bail out this struggling bastion of socialist incompetence.
Have they asked that nice Mr Robinson? or perhaps Eddie and his friends can help?
Have they asked lovely Vanessa and her luvvie mates?
They should have bought some of my cheap gold.
It is so nice to see your comment appear after 24 hours.
Now I am getting adverts for Islamic Relief on here all the time
Hmmm
Is it for a blow-up job?
Or a Jihandi shandi?
An MP has described a rule that forced a party colleague to quit the race to become Avon and Somerset police commissioner as “grossly unfair”.
Bob Ashford, a former Frome councillor, said a crime he committed in 1966, when he was 13, barred him from standing.
Bristol East Labour MP Kerry McCarthy said the legislation was “draconian”.
Kerry knows all about troubles with the law. She got an official warning from police for breaking electoral law in 2010.
I’m tubbed!
What with Dave’s ‘we’re all in this together’ and the labour lot touting for free labour. All these fuc*ing twats are exploiting some vulnerable members of society desperate for some form of work, or using retired people to fill in gaps that should be paid jobs.
If these twats got their priorities right instead of pouring countless billions down the EU or Foreign Aid drains this money should be spent on the British Economy to relieve some of the deprivation in this country. Maybe if the Indians did launch a moon rocket Messer’s Blair, Brown , Clegg, Cameron & Osborne could take the first one way tickets? Closely followed by the Militwits and the Balls ups!!
Don’t tell me… you’re one of those single issue nutters from the UKIP.
Except they are not a single issue party
http://www.ukip.org/content/ukip-policies
And as a non elected elite in Europe makes most of the laws that YOU have to abide by, regaining independence for the United Kingdom is hardly a single issue anyway.
‘Spending too much and running a deficit’ then I must have been running ‘left foot forward’.
There won’t be any money but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.
Aha, they’ve been flushed out as total hypocrits, preaching one thing and then when the bust their own budget, doing exactly the opposite of what they say.
I wouldn’t trust Jack Straw to manage a tombola ticket sale for 10 minutes.
That is leftism…do as we say not as we do!!
No but yes but they are working for nothing for a noble cause, so it is OK.
How much money have they actually burned though?
A web developer would charge about £1000 to set up that template in WordPress. High capacity hosting would be about £25 a month.
Then you just need a load of left-wing, whiny, sanctimonious, insidious fifth-column shite to fill it up with – which is worth less than nothing – so I fail to see how they can be in financial dire straights.
Can’t Daddy Straw fling them some cash?
I assume any money that comes in will be pilfered by the lefties working there. They just want someone to work for free so they can get further in the trough themselves.
If Daddy Straw sold his mansion in the all white country village of Minster Lovell in David Cameron’s constituency and bought a house in the godforsaken shithole he represents in parliament, that should free up a couple of million. Small fry for a socialist.