Guido’s on his way to Manchester for Tory conference. Among the usual suited circus heading off from Euston another guest is making a surprise journey to join the PM up north. Jeremy Corbyn…
Guido learns this after a co-conspirator had to move the absolute boy – fresh from making a nuisance of himself at Labour conference – out of his seat on the train up. Corbyn clearly hadn’t bothered making a reservation on the packed train. It’s not like he has a track record of this. Hopefully he didn’t have to spend the rest of the journey sat on the floor…
According to a source officials from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy have contacted Amazon asking them to remove fake police IDs, wallets and warrant cards currently available on the website. At the time of going to pixel the police-style paraphernalia is still available for purchase on amazon.co.uk. Impersonating a police officer is an offence, Amazon enabling the offence is not…
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Guido Talks is back with a few new faces to talk about the big story of the week: Labour Conference.
The former Shadow Transport secretary Andy McDonald, who resigned from Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet over the £15 minimum wage row, doesn’t even pay his own staffers £15 per hour. Shock!
Guido dug through the archives and found that between 2020-2021, McDonald paid five staff members a total of £140,880.12, an average of some £28,176.02 each, which works out at £13.55 per hour. If the £140,880.12 was not evenly split, some unfortunate staffer may have been paid even less…
Andy McDonald might have been the toast of the left at Labour’s conference. The fact is he, like the other hypocrites at Momentum and the Bakers Union, has a do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do style of politics…
*A co-conspirator in the comments below points out that the gross cost of the salaries will include employers N.I. so the actual net hourly rate to the employee will be lower than £13.55.
UPDATE: Another co-conspirator has done some further calculations:
Assuming an employer’s contribution of 3% kicking in on annual earnings above £6240 and employer’s NICs of 13.8% kicking in at the secondary threshold of £8788, the annual salary, s, would be given by:
s=28716.02-0.03(s-6240)-0.138(s-8788) 1.141s=28716.02+187.2+1212.74=30115.96s=26394.36
