Has anyone ever done an Internship?

The culture of internships has fuck all to do with the Tories and Has been around since quite a bit before 2010. I still want David Cameron to die in a fire but this has very little to do with him, if anything, its a new labour legacy.

Like has been mentioned, in some industries, its the only way in so calling people fuckers for doing it is a bit off. I wouldn't dream of interning for most jobs anyway.

It's clear the system needs changing but how can the cycle be broken?

I'd find it difficult to see how most internships that either don't pay food and travel or do pay food or travel don't fall into the following categories of an illegal internship

*In order to be owed the National Minimum Wage you need to be considered a “worker.” The Department for Business Innovation and Skills states:

A “worker” is someone who works under a contract of employment or any other kind of contract (express or implied) whereby they undertake to do work personally for someone else (and they are not genuinely self-employed).

[I]A contract does not have to be written and can be oral or implied. Key elements in establishing whether someone has a worker’s contract include:

whether there is an obligation on the individual to perform the work and an obligation on the employer to provide the work, and

whether the individual is rewarded for the work by money or benefits.*[/I]

From the LSESU website here

Its seems there little clear and explicit guidance on this.