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For Immediate Release

Wonk Group marketing misleads recruits, warns new report

"Potential new recruits to wonkery are subjected to a misleading picture of life in the wonk sector, according to a new report backed by the Croydonian Foundation, launched today"

  • Brochures suggest that it will be non-stop lunches with ministers, not making tea for the head of research and manning the photocopier.
  • No warnings are given of the likelihood of having to stand around at party conferences handing out leaflets to bored delegates.
  • Breakfast meetings are common, and involve early starts and the prospect of fighting of freeloading bloggers.
  • Recruits are unlikely to become MPs or get book deals.

In wholly unrelated news, the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust donated £ 3,673,719.80 to various branches of the Liberal Democrats between 2001 and 2007.

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