Labour is not working for one group – Keir Starmer’s betrayal will price him vastly | Politics | News | EUROtoday

Remember this pre-election pledge from slightly over 18 months in the past: “We will put the country back in the service of working people.” While a lot of you would possibly recall how Sir Keir Starmer then struggled to outline “working people or working class” to me when quizzed on the radio (some meandering waffle about “saving up for a car” or “looking forward to a holiday”) the intent behind his phrases was fairly clear. And whereas that makes the jobless figures launched final week past embarrassing for the federal government relating to the overall inhabitants, for our youth it’s little greater than a betrayal.

Outside of the darkest interval conceivable throughout the Covid pandemic, unemployment is at its highest stage for a decade, has elevated by 1 / 4 over the past 12 months and, as acknowledged earlier, is acutely bleak for our youthful technology, particularly these aged between 16 and 24.

The stage of unemployment for them is the very best within the European Union with one in six out of labor and there may be the added concern that just about one million of them (950,000) are classed uncharitably as ‘Neets’ – Not in Education, Employment or Training.

When challenged, ministers blather on about “doing more to get people into jobs” and “making it easier for young people to get into apprenticeships” with out realising this merely serves to focus on each their naivety and ignorance.

Because that is the exact same bunch of incompetents, most of whom would wrestle to run a shower not to mention a enterprise, who’ve ushered in a sequence of measures which have plunged the office into stasis.

The appallingly misjudged hike in National Insurance contributions has killed recruitment and – with out wishing to blitz you with too many figures – that is borne out whenever you be taught there have been greater than 700,000 redundancies for the reason that final election and job vacancies have dropped by 73,000 up to now yr. All of which was forecast by employers, however this tone-deaf authorities was in all probability too busy burning the rubber from the tyres of one other U-turn to heed the warning.

And speaking of these about turns, is one other on the best way? Bullied by their union paymasters, Labour promised to equalise the nationwide minimal wage by the subsequent election. Workers aged over 21 should be paid a minimal of £12.21 an hour, whereas these between 18 and 21 presently get £10 an hour, however strain is mounting to ditch a coverage seemingly designed to make it more durable for our youth to get into work.

Commissioned to evaluation the youth jobs disaster, Labour grandee Alan Milburn warned final week: “We risk a generation on the scrapheap, the system isn’t working.”

Regrettably, simply as with our kids, he’s proper: neither are working. And whenever you issue on this insane rush to permit as many individuals as doable to earn a living from home, which has resulted in numerous jobs being quietly farmed out abroad the place labour is markedly cheaper, the image turns into even gloomier.

Meanwhile, as our flesh pressers dither the psychological well being of this age group continues to say no as so many are denied the construction, assist and self-discipline a job offers. For them in, specific, Labour isn’t working.

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Nigel Farage ought to think about the knowledge of his Famous Five

To a lot fanfare, “Farage’s Famous Five” took their bow final week with what he’s calling his ‘shadow cabinet’ comprising, from left to (very!) proper, Zia Yusuf, Robert Jenrick, Nigel Farage, Richard Tice and Suella Braverman. Given even the Conservatives now admit they failed the nation in lots of areas in direction of the tip of their tenure, it’s truthful to query the knowledge of getting a duo of outstanding members of that earlier administration.

Or, with apologies to Oscar Wilde, “to pick one discredited Tory may be regarded as misfortune; to pick two looks like carelessness”.

Oh dear, looks like we need a taxi for Steve Reed

While in charge of the housing construction brief he promised to “build, baby build”. The figures for homes built in the third quarter are the lowest in 12 years. Now running local government, he championed measures to deny 4.6 million people the vote in local elections only to be overruled by legal advice and must now splurge £63million to make good the costly error.

Taxi for Local Government Secretary Steve Reed, please!

This is why trust in politics is at a record low

One of Sir Keir Starmer closest friends, Philippe Sands KC, was paid a share of £8million for working for Mauritius during the Chagos Islands row. While in no way implying any wrongdoing, is it any wonder trust in politics is at a record low?

Pro-Palestinian activists rear their heads and range from the comical to the downright sinister

Brilliant comic Matt Lucas is harassed and heckled on the London Underground network by a pro-Palestinian activist. It was totally unwarranted and the 51-year-old’s only ‘crime’ appears to have been he comes from a Jewish family.

This as the US anti-Semitism campaigner Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun says on a visit to the UK that hatred of Jewish people here has been allowed to “run amok.” Meanwhile, a bunch of helpful idiots calling themselves the Brighton and Hove Apartheid Free Zone had been filmed asking residents to boycott any Israeli merchandise.

As we should hope these deluded dolts didn’t require the sat nav system Waze, use some cellphones full of Israeli elements or any of the marvel medication that preserve us alive and had been developed in Israel, their actions may be written off as nearly comical. Worryingly, the others are way more sinister.

Why is the Bank of England even getting concerned on this?

You can see the scale of the financial disaster gripping the nation from one other planet. Therefore, is it an excessive amount of to count on the Bank of England to give attention to getting us out of this fiscal quagmire as an alternative of issuing recommendation to genderfluid male workers saying they will put on eyeshadow and excessive heels to the workplace?