Miliband attacks Cameron on jobs

Right On

It's like two drunks in a bar - neither has a clue what to do, but both are utterly convinced they are right.

Any chance we could get someone with a few ideas and a backbone? No? Oh well.....

Mark W

Quote from an FT article by David Blair:

Ed Miliband's speech to the Labour party conference last month cast more than the familiar array of thunderbolts at the "big six" utilities. Instead of sticking to routine condemnation of bill increases, he pledged to abolish a "rigged market" that had allowed them to achieve "dominance".

Afterwards, Ian Marchant, chief executive of Scottish and Southern Energy, asked his colleagues to come up with a response. Two weeks later, SSE's answer is to do voluntarily what a government led by Mr Miliband would force upon them ...

Would Mr Marchant have acted without the Labour leader's intervention? "The fact that I asked the question was triggered by the speech, but we would do this on its merits," he tells the Financial Times.

"I put the challenge to my traders and they came up with this."

So Ed Milliband's claim actually had some truth to it, even if the PM mocked.

Publius

If either of them cared about jobs, they'd have done something about the EU's temp worker directive and all the other job-killing stuff.

But they don't give a damn.

Private Schultz

Where's Lloyd???

Heartless Perry

um ... does the H2B actually know what a job is? - I mean a proper job?

His predecessor certainly did not. Neither, I believe, did his Hero.

Must say something about the calibre of those that affect to 'govern' us.

Mrs M L Bonwick-Jones

On the news today we had a prime example of what our country has become, and the failure of the last goverment, we have a young person poorly educated(but bright),with no aspirations, with little work experience, no confidence and with no hope for a better future!
This young woman said she once dreamed of a job in the arts, he had been looking for work from the age of 15(regardless of the fact that you need to be 16 before leaving school)She clearly was not too concerned about qualifications- her school had failed her! She has very little self-belief and has probably been hanging out for her 'dream job' so extending the age that you can leave school from 16 to 18 should help in the future Michael Gove is correct when he say's you need to start from the very beginning. There needs to be a longer time to study for qualifications and the extra 2 years should help build confidence, prehaps the apprentice scheme should start at that time whilst people are still studying, i know there is work experience but i think the other idea will be much better!
This young lady was made to do different courses at the job centre-but to no avail!
It was the case of as long as you do the courses you can get your benefits- I will make the assumption that she is on some kind of benefit - you need money!
She was also not too impressed with the measures the goverment is taking for young people ie The Apprentice scheme, She said she last worked in december ( a christmas job ) and has been looking since August. We get no apologies from the last goverment, she was educated during their time, they just sit there throwing stones hoping we will forget.

dorothy wilson

I missed PMQs today but doesn't Milliminor realise that a large chunk of youth unemployment can be blamed on Labour's policies.

Cannot he see the connection between young people are coming out of both school and university without the skills to operate in the workplace plus unfettered immigration and the youth unemployment figures?

Verity

I second Right On.

TGF UKIP

As I recall, in the last quarter of 2009 the NHS took another 20,000 employees onto its payroll so when it comes to jobs I would have though Cameron could simply turn it back on The Swivel Eyed by suggesting that what he wants is yet another couple of hundred billion of borrowing to finance putting another few hundred thousand on the public sector payroll. That's what they did last time and isn't it what they really want to do again?

RCE

I wonder how many of these unemployed are immigrants?

Paddy

It was good to see Osborne.....completely take Balls apart this afternoon.

Will Labour never learn. They keep calling these motions.

Dimoto

Mrs Bonwick Jones: did you also see the inarticulate young man with a silly hair cut, who thought his best chance of a job was to "join the union campaign" ?

The media does the youth no favours by constantly interviewing the lame and pretending they are typical.

Dennis Churchill

dorothy wilson
October 12th, 2011 4:56pm
No our political class don’t seem to accept that supply and demand operates in the employment market like all others. If immigration is increased and therefore the labour force increases this lowers the demand for labour.These immigrants also tend to be concentrated within certain age groups rather than represent a statistically valid cross section of the community---now what group would that be?