More Unemployment

As most of you are aware, the recent strikes are due to the breach of contract between the public workers and the government, and how their pay and pensions will be worked out in the future. Like all contract breaches, we take the party who breached the contract to court and get what is due, however how can you take a government like ours to court?


More importantly these strikes of existing unemployment however unfair does not take away the fact that along with unfair proposals to the contract a further 710,000 people will be made redundant very soon. These are nurses, teachers and other vital government staff which will be dismissed.

However there was a slight glimmer of light when Nick Clegg (the backstabbing liberal) claimed that he would generate £1billion worth of jobs for the young. At this point you think "wow! Really? hey wait a minute whats the catch?"

So lets take a look at the catch....


- The three-year youth contract scheme will give employers subsidies worth £2,275 to take on 160,000 18-to 24-year-olds for six months. What happens after the 6 months? How can you be eligible for this?

- 250,000 young people will be offered work experience placements lasting up to eight weeks. These will be available to every unemployed 18-to 24-year-old who wants one and has been seeking work for three months or more. Is work experience not supposed to be free anyway... work experience is not the issue people face, why would an employer need to be paid to take on free workers? The problem is paid work is hard to find!

- A £50m programme for the 25,000 most disadvantaged 16-and 17-year-olds in England - those not in employment, education or training - to get them onto an apprenticeship or into work. Why is more spent on this when it is exactly the same as the top point? Why would the money be divided here? Most people who can not find jobs at this age are most disadvantaged!

- At least 20,000 additional incentive payments for firms in England to take on 16-to 24-year-olds in apprenticeships. Again is this not the same point as the one above? Why would people think they are two different things?

- More support for young people at job centres, such as extra time with advisers and a careers interview. I thought the job centre was supposed to do all those things anyway.

Without sounding too cynical this proposal sounds very confused and divided, and not aimed properly, and it is not even accepted yet and is planned to start in April. How can we even trust this will get to the right people when they do not even know who they are.

The main point I am trying to make about this whole thing is that the money used for this is not from original funding, it is from tax payers pockets again. SO even though you have paid your taxes another amount will be taken for this very confused and not very organised proposal. If we think about this carefully it will create a further class divide as people will be angry to pay more taxes blaming the youth and disadvantaged. So even after they come out of this scheme, they will continue to be marginalised and not employed as they were the so called cause of more tax... even though the government was the one who failed them and should really take the blame for this.

So lets think about this for a minute and see where this proposal will ultimately take British Society. ...

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Youth Unemployment

I'm glad to surmise that media coverage on youth unemployment has been plenty. I fear that inevitably though, like all news cycles, something else scandalous will occur, causing this issue to be consigned to the bin (or at least recycling bin I hope). However, unless someone can tell me otherwise, I don't see the government doing much about it except for forcing us into unpaid employment with big chains stacking shelves. lest they cut us off from the whole £7 a day they give us (a one day travelcard for zones 1-2 is £8 a day).

• Are they simply happy to cut jobs therefore leaving the nation's lives in the hands of the free market? 
• The same free market that caused millions to suffer in the first place? 
• Is it a wonder why so many simply hope to win the lottery? 
• Is it laziness like the Conservatives maybe think it is or is it that having a pot of money is the only chance normal people have to get on in life? 

We are taught that money is all that matters so of course we would crave the thing that we do not have. Not only that but we live in Great Britain, a developed nation, and yet we have to either a) a lot of money or b) a lot of debt, just to access the most basic things such as education and housing.

We must not lose sight of the fact that the young are important, not limited to the following reasons;
Who else is going to pay for the baby boomers' pensions?!
In an increasingly globalised world, if the young are unable to compete with the youth of other nations, Britain's economy will die a rapid death.
In the Arab world, 50% are under 18, with their burgeoning democracies hopefully on the horizon, this is a region with massive potential, so this is another group we will have to compete with and/or work with.

While many will have blamed the England riots on 'pure criminality' it would be absurd to deny that the youth are disenfranchised. If something is not done is it undeniable that this generation has the potential to cause even worse havoc than previously seen. Or if you really are economically unconvinced, perhaps this will convince you; if nothing is done, the youth will achieve absolutely nothing, thereby burdening the welfare system and our economy will never reach the potential that the free market always promised.

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