Member

“Sad, frustrated and angry” does not even begin to express the contents of my in-box in the last 24 hours, and it is inexplicable to most that a Labour Government would prevent creative workers getting a fair day’s wage for a fair day’s labour. Ministers and Members of the other place take their wages and holiday pay and build up their pension pots, but they have blithely walked through the Lobby to give away creators’ wages, creators’ sick pay and creators’ pensions—not just to anyone, but to the most capitalised companies in history. Creators are not unwilling to bargain or to license; they want to work with AI and to be part of building the new future. They are not stupid, but they are very worried that the Government are, because Ministers appear not to understand that our creative industries are valuable—valuable to their owners, valuable to the public purse and valuable to the future of AI.