What hippy hypocrisy! Glastonbury fires its zero hours staff

GLASTONBURY organisers were accused of ‘rank hypocrisy’ last night for sacking hundreds of staff on zero-hour contracts after just two days work.

Around 700 of the music festival’s litter pickers – mostly from overseas – had been signed up with the expectation of spending two weeks helping with the mammoth clean-up operation.

But about 600 of them were dumped after just two days because this year’s good weather meant there was less rubbish than expected.

It comes after Jeremy Corbyn gave a speech at the festival calling on people to reject the idea of ‘low wages and insecurity as just a part of life’, and vowed to make European workers ‘a part of our community’.

Last night MPs accused Mr Corbyn of ‘turning a blind eye’ to the appalling treatment of Glastonbury workers.

Tory Andrew Bridgen said: ‘Where is the Labour outrage? ... This is another example of the rank hypocrisy of the North London champagne socialist set.’

European employees who found themselves stranded were left in tears when Glastonbury staff refused to feed them before they left the Somerset site, it is claimed. With just two days’ wages, many had no way of travelling back to their home countries, which included Latvia, Poland and Spain.

There were heated scenes on Saturday when a supervisor confronted a group of sacked workers. He was filmed saying: ‘Everyone is on a zero-hour contract. We have no commitment to feed these people.’ British litter picker Cheryl Roberts told The Independent: ‘For Glastonbury not to have the decency to feed a group of workers that have travelled thousands of miles to be here, after supporting [Mr Corbyn’s] speech about ... foreign workers, it just reeks of hypocrisy.’

A Glastonbury spokesman did not reply to requests for comment.