Seriously a month working for Roger Kerr you’d never dream of going left again. Of course you’d never actually win the internship because you’re an underqualified leftist idiot but if I was in charge I would give you the internship just for the challenge of turning you. No one who has ever worked for me has ever left believing in Unions.

Auntie Helen told me: Labour good-National BAD!!! EMPU is aligned with Labour so good, but BRT is aligned with National so VERY BAD!!!

24 words – does that win the intern prize?

2) an internship to widen my horizons to serve hard working kiwis

Regardless of the pay, I imagine a year in that “internship” where more will be learned than an elongated Masters in F’All and the young man or woman will be able to print their own starting salary on a piece of paper in the private sector. Rather like the advertising internships.

James, the Union internship hopeful will no doubt aspire to a life time of sucking off the public tit and the Grand prize, a candidacy within the Labour Party.

Woopy.

That’s worth getting all that student loan for.

Of course it shouldn’t be used to avoid hiring someone and paying them a proper wage to do a full time job, but I doubt it could be – any “intern” who saw themselves doing as much work as the salaried person in the next office, and not receiving the guidance and training they were promised, would soon quit.

1. They succeeded in stuffing National up over fire service reform in the late 1990′s – IMO they did not have a clue how to bring about effective reform in a highly unionised organisation where the individual employees can garner much public support.

2. They issue all these pretty papers about the electricity industry should be privatised and how it is necessary for there to be further reforms. IMO the only way their ideas will work is by taking investors in the industry for a ride by setting the scene for destructive cut-throat competition (which someone likened to two scorpions in a jar). However when there is a bit of a shortage and the spot prices go through the roof (precisely what is supposed to happen), captains of industry (who are the BRT members) go screaming off to the Government to ‘do something’. The Labour government has of course obliged.

Given this, I just cannot take the BRT seriously. As far as I am concerned, they need to keep their heads down until the election lest they lose National votes.

So you want to suck more from hard working Kiwi’s? Gee James, why dont you get out and work in the real world amoungst those you wish to represent one day, you will probably get a better perspective from that than getting Andrew Little his morning coffee…..

I bet it would be brilliant working for these people. At least it will piss the lefties off, that itself would be enough for me and I’d do it for free!

Clearly you’re too lazy to read the referenced link:

The Business Roundtable employs one or two interns each year to assist in all aspects of its work, including research and writing, organising conferences, debates and forums, drafting media material, maintaining and updating the website, preparing material for distribution to on-line subscribers, assisting with database management and various administrative tasks.

This intern thing seems strange (and I wonder how legal it is), you work, we don’t pay you.