Space Bandit wrote:
Blimey that is a LONG read! Took me ages just to scroll through it all. Somebody clearly has it right in for him to go to that much effort!
I noticed there was a screenshot from here on there too!
Yeah, I took the time to read it because I didn't think anyone else would be arsed! Understandably so. I don't know if Andy read it, but the screenshot was mainly one of his posts, and the sadly absent quietgirl and I can't remember who the third person was, it might have been dub actually.
I'm not sure I can precis the whole thing as it was quite detailed, but it was really mainly talking about funding issues related to TPV. It probably should have gone in that thread actually. The main thing was that people are working for them on an entirely voluntary basis, but there is a certain cabal of people who are presumably being well paid, including mainstream journalist Sonia Poulton.
I'd already concluded that this would be the case myself when I heard Poulton was involved - not that I've got anything against her. It's absolutely right that a pretty successful journalist should expect to be paid for work. But you cannot ask for £300,000 from the public, pay the likes of Poulton and some of the other people involved really well, and then say to another group of people that you expect them to work full-time on a voluntary basis. You have to pay people at least the minimum wage, otherwise you don't have a viable business. Especially when they're working in sales, as the author was, which is the most important part of the operation.
There are lots of other allegations about funding which seem to have some merit, it's worth a read if you can be arsed. I was mentioned in the SZ posts that are on there, so I took the time to let him know what I thought about it.
