Saturday, 5 November 2011

Youth unemployment petition

Will Scobie, Luke Edwards and Linda Aldred
The Thanet Labour team were in Margate high street this morning asking people to sign the Labour petition on youth unemployment. The petition stated:



'Youth unemployment has hit almost one million and the Tory-led Government’s policies risk creating another lost generation like in the 1980s. Sign up to Labour’s campaign to call for the Government to repeat last year’s bonus tax and use the money raised to help create 100,000 more jobs 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.'



Steve Alexandrou
In just one morning the team were able to get over 400 signatures, and it is clear that this is an issue that many people feel very strongly on. Young people are our future and we need to make sure that we give them the training, skills, and experience necessary for their lives ahead of them. The Tory-led Government is trying to save money in the short term, but in the long term this is only going to cost more through social problems and schemes to get people back to work.


The Labour team will be visiting Ramsgate next to get more signatures on Wednesday 16th November. They will be on Ramsgate high street at lunch time, so come along and talk to your local Labour team.
Jodi Hibbert, Louise Drelaud, Will Scobie, Jenny Matterface, Clive Hart, and James Watkins.
Posted by Thanet Lab at 6:45:00 pm
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2 comments:

  1. James Maskell6 November 2011 at 22:03

    Well done on getting so many signatures. Ive not yet seen any costings or detail of this Labour policy announced at Conference. How much money would be raised by this and how many new jobs will be created?

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  2. Thanet Lab7 November 2011 at 12:07

    By repeating last years bankers bonus tax we are expecting to raise £2 billion. Last year the bonus tax raised £3.5 billion, so ours assumption is a very conservative one. The funds raised from the bank bonus tax could be used to:

    • Establish a £600m fund for youth jobs. This would help more than 90,000 young people into work at a time when youth unemployment has reached almost one million.

    • Provide £1.2bn to fund the construction of more than 25,000 homes across the country. This would generate more than 20,000 jobs and several times more in the supply chain, and as many as 1,500 construction apprenticeships at a time when demand for construction apprentices has fallen by 31%.

    • Boost the Regional Growth Fund by £200m. With the first wave of the fund over-subscribed several times over, this would be a quick way to drive new investment. The Regional Growth Fund represents a two-thirds cut from the funding for Regional Development Agencies, which were abolished last year.

    Let us know if you have any more questions and we will get some answers for you.

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