For almost two years the government has watched as the number of young people not in training , education of work has risen worryingly. Yesterday Alan Milburn published a report telling us this has been happening, and expressing justified moral outrage that it is happening. HIs Report did not set out what the government should do about his. The lack of urgency continues, so we have to await a second report to tell us what might change this alarming trend.
The government wants people to believe that this has been a long standing and deep rooted set of problems. It is true the previous Labour government left office with young people unemployment far too high and rising. From 2012 to 2021 the Coalition and Conservative governments got it well down. It has been rising since 2022 when higher energy costs, higher interest rates and post covid recovery issues affected the figures. The rise has got worse under this government. No-one should be surprised, as their National Insurance hike has hit young people’s job opportunities hard. Higher business rates for High Street shops, entertainment and hospitality has hit those jobs for young people. The new Employee Rights Act has put more employers off offering a job to a young person to see how it works out.
The government should as the Opposition proposes, urgently reverse some of these mistakes and get behind business so they can create more jobs and want to recruit again. There is a growing gap between what the market needs and what jobs are on offer. People would like more choice of services to their home, but the hostile atmosphere hitting the self employed and small businesses means fewer are prepared to venture to meet those needs. The country is short of builders, digital technicians, medics and other trained people. This government likes to intervene substantially in the labour market, so why can’t its interventions deliver better results for both consumers of services and the young people who would like jobs in those areas?
Ministers are often telling us they do things at pace. Instead they do not even get their reviews to run to a tight timetable. What a pity they did not think these big issues out in Opposition before the election.
May 29, 2026
Youth unemployment is probably one of the most evil outcomes (& entirely predictable outcomes) of this government’s deluded doom loop, tax to death policies.
Mr Milburn insisted there is “no evidence” of a link between migration and joblessness among young people, and also appeared to defend Chancellor Rachel Reeves when asked about whether the Government’s increase in national insurance was a mistake for its impact on business.
I assume Miliband also insists that there is no evidence that mass immigration has any effect on making the housing shortages worse!
May 29, 2026
One of the most evil things the dire Cameron/Clegg (No so Liberal or Democratic) government did was the appalling changes that made it almost impossible for wrongly convicted innocent people to get proper compensation for this. See the Paul Foot awards Private Eye Podcast. Plus we has the dire Sir Ed Davey, Liberal Democrat leader, serving as Postal Affairs Minister from 2010 to 2012, overseeing the Post Office during the Horizon IT scandal. He even refused to meet with campaigner Alan Bates. Most of these people have also still not been compensated.
May 29, 2026
A good videos by Jacob Rees-Mogg yesterday too “Why Burnham is Wrong”. (As are Starmer, Reeves, Lammy, Philipson, Cooper-Balls, Ed Miliband, Steeting, James Murray and that Scum, Scum, Scum lass!)
Socialism is always evil, wrong and entirely counter productive.
May 29, 2026
For almost two years the government has watched as the number of young people not in training , education of work has risen worryingly.
This as been going on for years because employers found that it’s cheaper to employ foreigners than train our young people to do the work and that isn’t going to change over night , the bottom line is it’s all about saving money and without fundamentally change that’s going to continually happen
May 29, 2026
as you know the governments of recent years have been printing visas like confetti to flood the country with cheap (foreign ed) workers, given them massive tax perks to undercut locals, encouraged them to steal the best British intellectual property and ship it home where it is used to undercut this country. this and other immigration abuses have destroyed this country. and even you are not calling it out.
May 29, 2026
Further and faster as Starmergeddon keeps repeating. Only he means destruction not growth. Milibrain says net stupid will create 600,000 jobs when in fact it’s destroying up to 20 000 every month.
Whole industries are closing because of his insane Marxist policies.
I find it incredible that no one is able to stop his ruinous actions.
It’s good to see 2TK being sued by Brussels for banning an MEP from attending a rally. Perhaps it was against international law.
May 29, 2026
Once again, South East Water has failed to supply drinking water to thousands of it’s customers in Kent and East Sussex. Yesterday there were two mile queues at one of it’s bottled water distribution points near Ashford
South East Water is owned by Utilities Trust of Australia, who own a 50% stake, NatWest Pension Fund (25%) and the Canadian pensions company Desjardins Group (25%). Last month they forced the resignation of the much criticised CEO David Hinton. Yesterday the company admitted that it’s reservoirs were “empty”
The company carries huge debts. A significant portion of it’s financial pressure stems from £276 million in high-interest shareholder loans managed by its parent holding company. These internal loans have faced intense political and regulatory backlash for racking up interest at rates near 10% – amounting to roughly £3,000 an hour
South East Water is paying so much in debt interest that it cannot undertake the infrastructure investments that Hinton committed it to last year. The company is clearly (struggling ed) and should be taken under government control immediately. In this weather, people need clean water to drink
May 29, 2026
In good news for the RN, Navantia UK confirms production is now underway across all UK sites supporting the new Fleet Solid Support ships.
Work is running concurrently at shipyards in Belfast, Appledore and Methil, alongside construction at Navantia’s facilities in Spain. Test blocks are being built in Belfast, bow sections are under construction at Appledore in Devon, and blocks are progressing at the Spanish yards. Methil is contributing through specialist fabrication and logistics work, including the completion of a new transport barge “Navantia UK Seahorse” which will move ship blocks between UK sites.
In Belfast, the former Harland and Wolff yard is being upgraded with mechanised panel lines, robotic plasma cutting systems and automated quality control processes, due to become fully operational in July.
Engineers, project teams and apprentices from across the UK business have undergone placements alongside colleagues in Spain as part of a knowledge transfer arrangement covering manufacturing techniques, digital programme management and naval shipbuilding practice. Navantia UK currently employs 222 apprentices across its sites, with a further 121 set to join later this year.
Such a shame that no frigate orders were placed between 1997 and 2017 – meaning we lost the skills needed to build them
Source: UKdefencejournal
May 29, 2026
John, The government tall us they are working at pace, yes. Unfortunately they are running around in circles at great and increasing pace, is it any wonder they never move forward?
The loss of jobs and simple job experience which used to happen to all teenagers wishing to engage in paper rounds and Saturday jobs has finished. Newspapers being delivered is a rare thing and mine is delivered by a car driver at 0600 hrs no paper boy anymore.
The Saturday jobs my children did have gone along with so many high street casual opportunities for work.
The small workshops that used to provide early engineering experiences for mostly boys are also gone.
Where exactly are young people going to find early work experiences? This government and previous administrations have been actively deindustrialising Britain.
Where are the actual places these young people can look to find jobs?
May 29, 2026
Blair, and his former Ministers, don’t give a 4X about the British working class. The Prime Liar doesn’t give a 4X about the UK; he would rather be in Davos or Brussels.
But they do care a great deal about the Labour Party and retaining power and they are very belatedly recognising that their policies are going to destroy it, hence the attempted screeching U-Turn coming from the Blair Foundation.
That’s all it is about.
May 29, 2026
The abandonment of our youth has been going on for decades. It is a stain on this country and a direct cause of the deteriorating behaviour of young people.
The numbers of course have inflated due to the massive rise in immigration that also has gone on for decades. Politicians pretend otherwise.