After just over three and half years at Guido, Christian Calgie has decided to go get his fingers inky at the Express where he will become their Senior Political Correspondent. Guido will pay a fuller tribute to Calgie’s talents before he leaves…
Christian will be gracing Guido with a couple more weeks of reporting before he switches to doing the same for Sam Lister. Yes, we’re hiring…
We’re having our festive away day and lunch. Merry Christmas…
Trade unions and the Labour Party campaigned for, and won, paid holidays and breaks, which means that the £15 per hour national minimum wage the Labour Party membership voted for at their conference equates to £31,200.* Yet we’ve gone through Momentum’s job advertisements and found that most of the jobs at the campaign pay well below that figure…
How can Momentum credibly campaign for businesses to pay a minimum wage that they don’t pay their own staff – “be the change you want to see” is a basic test of credibility. We’ve asked Momentum’s press office to explain themselves. GB News also invited Momentum on this morning to make their case. Embarrassed silence.
They’re not the only left-wing organisation guilty of hypocrisy, as our senior reporter Christian Calgie explained this morning on GB News. The £15-an-hour mandate is ridiculously above the market rate for most jobs, it is above the average wage for experienced staff in many roles. That is proven by the fact that those organisations campaigning for it, don’t even pay it themselves.
*£15 x 40 x 52 = £31,200
After a summer break, Live with Littlewood returns tonight at 6pm – with the guests joining us live in the studio!
ON THE AGENDA…
- Fuel-proof: are we heading for a winter of discontent?
- Things can only get better: Did Keir deliver at Labour Party Conference?
- Fat chance: Will this government be the first in the world to “reverse the trend on obesity”?
ON THE PANEL…
- Christian Calgie – Senior Reporter, Guido Fawkes
- Tom Harwood – Political Correspondent, GB News
- Emma Revell – Head of Public Affairs, IEA
- Christopher Snowdon – Head of Lifestyle Economics, IEA
JOIN THE DEBATE FROM 6PM HERE OR ON YOUTUBE
Guido’s Calgie appeared alongside Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP on Sunday night, taking the opportunity to follow up his story from earlier in the week that the 1922 treasurer believes Gavin Williamson should be sacked. After having nothing to add last week, Sir Geoffrey defended himself, arguing “I think it is probably time for somebody else to take over the reins of education”. When Calgie asked whether the Tory grandee felt many of his colleagues shared the view, he boldly claimed:
“I think many of my colleagues probably wouldn’t voice it quite as stridently and quite as publicly as I do, but I suspect privatly there will be quite a number that have the same views as I do”
The bell tolls for thee, Gavin…
On tonight’s Live with Littlewood, we’ll be asking:
- From lockdown to economic meltdown – just how damaging could a delay be?
- Bangers and clash – could the sausage fight trigger a trade war?
- Trade not aid – are the G7 taking their eye off the ball?
IEA Director General Mark Littlewood will be joined tonight by Spiked Editor Brendan O’Neill, Guido’s own Christian Calgie, former Oxford President James Price and the IEA’s own Victoria Hewson and Alexander Hammond.
Join the debate from 6pm tonight, Wednesday 9th June, here.
