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Wasted youth

I BELIEVE this city has a whole host of talent.

Brighton and Hove is a young and dynamic city. This must be nurtured, not wasted.

However, under the Tory-led Government, youth unemployment has hit almost one million – that’s one in five young people.

In Brighton and Hove alone, just under 4,500 16–24 year-olds are unemployed.

The Government is failing our young people. Chancellor George Osborne has scrapped Labour’s successful Future Jobs Fund and abolished its guarantee of work or training for 18–24 year-olds on the dole for a period of six months.

Putting young people on the dole is a waste of talent, but also a waste of money.

Failing to get Britain back to work fast enough is helping push up the benefits bill by more than £12 billion.

We cannot allow the talents of young people go to waste.

I’m asking readers of The Argus to join Labour’s Britain’s Lost Talent campaign to call on the Government to use a £2 billion tax on bank bonuses to help create jobs and apprenticeships for young people.

Getting people off the dole and into work is the best way to get the deficit down – and stop Britain’s talent going to waste.

Stop the creation of a lost generation and join our campaign today – sign up at www.britainslosttalent.co.uk.

Councillor Warren Morgan, Labour and Co-operative lead for economic development


Comments (4)

29/06/11

bug eye says...

warren once again you seem to forget that it has not risen to 1 million in the last year, most of these figures are from your administration and the consequences of overspending, mass immigration and the financial crisis.
everyone knows these figures will go up before they go down, brighton is a popular place to live and graduates stay taking on entry level jobs that school leavers should take. if the new green administration will concentrate on higher quality job creation in the city this will be resolved. how many jobs fit for our young have been taken by immigrants, no-one denies they are hardworking and for a pittance, surely this is the fault of the previous labour government under which immigration escalated. it is great to have a culturally diverse city if you have the jobs, homes and infrastructure. you certainly cannot blame a government that has been in power for 1 year against your 13 years of destruction and incompetence.

30/06/11

Morpheus says...

Politicians always claim that they can create jobs if more money is available. Politicans cannot create real jobs only businesses can do that and if they don't have a market for the goods/service they produce then the jobs will not be there for long. This is what Warren Morgan does not understand. Ideas and markets create jobs, not money.

01/07/11

Warren Morgan says...

Businesses need the right conditions to create jobs - they need a skilled workforce who can afford to live in the area, and they need the right premises to base their companies. Brighton and Hove is short of top-quality office space for small and medium sized companies working in the digital, renewable energy and new media sectors. The council has a role to play in creating the right conditions for business and employment growth - the market can't do it on its own and will go elsewhere if conditions aren't right here.

04/07/11

Yes i'm right says...

Warren Morgan wrote:
Businesses need the right conditions to create jobs - they need a skilled workforce who can afford to live in the area, and they need the right premises to base their companies. Brighton and Hove is short of top-quality office space for small and medium sized companies working in the digital, renewable energy and new media sectors. The council has a role to play in creating the right conditions for business and employment growth - the market can't do it on its own and will go elsewhere if conditions aren't right here.
You are a hypocrite Mr Morgan! If you're government hadn't flooded this country with immigrants during your 13 years in power a lot of young people would now have jobs. As one earlier correspondant stated ( which now strangely has been removed ) 78% of jobs created under the last Labour government went to immigrant workers. Stop shedding your crocodile tears! It is somewhat nauseating!