Getting Britain back to work
Posted by David Chaytor, MP for Bury North, at 17:23, Tue 30 June 2009:
Growth and jobs - Getting Britain back to work
I am interested to hear your views on the PM's statement this week.
• In the last two recessions, tens of thousands of young people were written off by the Conservative Government to become a generation lost to work. This Government will not make that mistake.
• From January every young person under 25 who has been out of work for a year will receive a guaranteed job, work experience or training place. In return, they will also have the obligation to accept that guaranteed offer.
• From September, there will be a clear pledge to all school-leavers that every 16 and 17 year old will receive an offer of a school or college place or an apprenticeship.
• Investment worth £1.5 billion over the next two years will deliver 20,000 new affordable homes, creating 45,000 jobs in the construction and related sectors.
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Posted by Dennis Massey, 17:50, Tue 30 June 2009: (Is this post abusive?) #
Anything spouting forth from anybody in this government is not credible. All I'm interested in is a general election for 2 reasons:- (1) remove this repulsive government and incompetant PM from power and (2) remove all the fiddling MP's from public life (and that includes you Mr Chaytor). By the way, how can Labour MP's tolerate having such an odious creep like Mandelson in the government. UGH!
Posted by Hazel Baynes, 18:11, Tue 30 June 2009: (Is this post abusive?) #
I really like the idea of apprenticeships being made available to young people. Do we have enough businesses in a position to offer to pay and support a young person whilst they learn a trade? Or does the government propose to pay companies to offer apprenticeships? Would those companies have to offer full employment at the end of an apprenticeship? Or could it be used by some companies as a form of cheap labour, rotated every couple of years?
Great idea but without actual proof of its viability I feel, as often happens, it will be open to abuse by some and not financially rewarding enough for others.
Posted by peter simpson, 18:29, Tue 30 June 2009: (Is this post abusive?) #
being a loyal superter for many years i am ashamed i ever voted for you.
Posted by Jan Bridge, 18:51, Tue 30 June 2009: (Is this post abusive?) #
As an ex employer of many young people over the last thirty years, I do wonder how the government intend overcoming the sheer apathy of many young people towards any form of work. The statement of intent from the current government may sound OK, they say nothing about how they are going to create these opportunities, or what their intentions are to ensure all young unemployed do take up offers. Brings back memories of the YOPS scheme, low quality employees for low pay. J Bridge
Posted by Jan Bridge, 19:08, Tue 30 June 2009: (Is this post abusive?) #
<<Mandelson in the government>> One of the reasons this government is losing credibility with Mr, Miss and Mrs average. Did they really think we had all forgotten why Mandelson was sent to Europe to bide his time. All parties, not just the labour party have been interpreting the green book to claim what they legitimateely could , and who amongst us can honestly say we wouldn't make the most of following the rules as laid out. IMO the fees office should be shouldering the blame, they're the ones who ticked the claims. They should have been checking MP's hadn't made errors and mistakes.
Posted by Richard Boyd, 19:17, Tue 30 June 2009: (Is this post abusive?) #
Sorry to be so negative but I just think that Brown and this Government are no longer credible. Everything Brown or his Government announces in this fashion (big figures designed to grab the headlines) is usually old money re-packaged. His policies are usually very slow to materialise, consistently over complex (e.g. tax credits) to understand and have very little benefit for whom they allegedly are designed to help (e.g. help for people having difficulty paying their mortgage through this economic downturn - does anyone out there know any one single person that's benefited from this scheme?). The numbers of houses that Brown is announcing here is pitiful - even the Government says we need 3 million new homes by 2020 and even last year before the economic downturn we were only building 110,000 a year. We need at least 250,000 a year to hit the 3 mill target. Will that happen? Not a chance. Local authorities will block it. Again, the number of construction jobs he says in this announcement that will be created: 45,000. Is all or just some of those thousands of construction jobs that Brown and this idiotic Government has allowed to be lost in recent months? Oh, well, off to the Job Centre Plus - lots of money being spent there, allegedly. Isn't spending lots of money at that stage though a little late i.e. after people have lost their jobs? I don't know how Brown sleeps at night. If he had any decency about him he would empathize with the nation's contempt for him and his lousy Government and resign. I am not in favour of the Tories but if they got in following a General Election, at least he would have been elected by a reasonable number of the electorate unlike Brown who has become PM thanks to the wimps in the Labour Party. Good riddance to bad rubbish and soon!
Posted by peter schevtschenko, 21:46, Tue 30 June 2009: (Is this post abusive?) #
on the face of it,it sounds a good idea to offer a guaranteed job,work experience or training place,but i wonder how many jobs will be offered,i suspect work experience will be the order of the day & i am concerned that employers will benefit by having cheap labour