It's difficult being a Lefty. You come up with principled positions and stances and then people expect you to stand by them. So, spare a thought for Caroline Lucas. Although the Green Party has campaigned for a £10 per hour minimum wage, today the Green MP's team placed a job advert looking for a press assistant for the not-so-princely sum of £9.23 per hour.

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When brains at Green HQ clocked the error of their ways -- apparently down to an admin error -- they came up with a simple work over. Rather than increase the salary to something slightly more liveable, reduce the time by three hours a week:

Given that the lucky candidate will have difficulty finding an extra job for three hours a week to bring up their income, Mr S suspects the party will need to tread carefully the next time they speak out on the minimum wage. After all, the party wouldn't want to be accused of not putting its money where its mouth is.