The Tories are spending millions (literally) on their poster campaigns and must be helping the economy doing this. This is a nice picture of Gordon that I spotted at the Moonrakers Roundabout, but it’s a pity that the Conservatives didn’t check the facts before printing it…
… the facts are that, if we exclude the full-time students from youth ‘unemployment’ (and that is the definition of the International Labour Organisation), there are 657,000 young people who are unemployed, compared to 830,000 in the early ’90s and more than 1 million in the early ’80s. Â It was the Tories who turned their back on young unemployed and left a lost generation, whose scars we have seen for very many years.
Labour is not prepared to turn its back:  which is why we are investing in the youth guarantee.  Labour is backing 470,000 additional youth opportunities, including through the £1 billion future jobs fund, as well as extra training and job opportunities. That is part of the youth guarantee:  which is that all young people should be guaranteed a job, training or a work placement if they have been unemployed for more than six months. The Tories oppose all this and are pledged to scrap the guarantee.
So can I thank my Tory opponents for paying for this expensive poster. Â I’m delighted to have had the opportunity to put the facts straight.
Incidentally, Â total unemployment in the UK is now 7.6%. Â That’s not acceptable, Â but its 2% lower than the EU average and only 0.1% higher than Germany. Â The Tories voted against most (all?) of the measures that we put in place to save jobs through the depression.
Victor Agarwal, Labour Candidate, North Swindon.
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