Labour-run Islington employs people on those very zero hour contracts Ed Miliband attacking
The Evening Standard reports a dose of hypocrisy from Labour over zero hour contracts: Labour-run councils are doing just what Ed Miliband attacks the Conservatives for.
Here’s what the report says:
Thousands of Londoners are employed by Labour councils on zero hours contracts that have been criticised by Ed Miliband, it emerged today…
Islington council has advertised for staff on contracts described on a recruitment website as “Zero Hour Contract — As and When Required”.
In an impressive piece of linguistic gymnastics, the council’s defence is that just because the contracts involve zero hours, they are not zero hour contracts.
As with so many other issues, such as pensions where Labour does for its staff what it criticises the government for doing for others, it’s a case of Labour doing one thing and then attacking others who do the same.
M’mm, I am correct in thinking, it is the Labour leader of Islington Council who has recently been selected to contest Hornsey & Wood Green at the next election against Lynne Featherstone. Prehaps the electors of Hornsey & Wood Green should be told 🙂