geezer466 wrote:
They have done nothing to encourage inclusion or challenge the argument (put about by big business) that the Youth of this Country is lazy and does not want to work. There is an agenda at work here which allows migrant workers to move across borders and labour at minimum or below minimum wage jobs. This suits business down to the ground. History tells us local labour are for more likely to organise and demand improvements (via a Union) then their foreign counterparts would.
It isn't only about open borders and cheap immigrant labour. The 'lazy' and 'unemployable' youth of this country are the inevitable product of decades of the anti-family benefits system and a politically correct dumbed-down education system. There has been, and continues to be, a deliberate policy to destroy the normal family unit consisting of two parents - a father and mother. In spite of all the evidence and regular supposed 'improvements' to the education system over recent decades; the education system in the UK continues to be far below sub-standard.
Earlier this week on Newsnight, Jeremy Paxman was discussing the Government’s work experience policy. In the studio were three young people with differing work experiences. Sadly, none of the three young people were able to present a case as to why any rational employer would want to employ any one of them. They were all very aware of their 'rights' and the 'unfairness' of the system. Two of them were very badly dressed, and their general unkempt presentation was more of a statement that they didn't want to be employed. One of them had such a poor use of language that he would probably be a liability in any employment situation. These young people are the direct result of decades of political policy from all three main parties.
The young are raised to believe that competition and excellence are 'unfair'. They are taught from an early age that everybody is equal, and that all are 'winners' - irrespective of achievements. They are indoctrinated into the dogma of 'fairness' to the exclusion of all reason.
These are enormous problems for Britain, and I suspect the situation has now gone way beyond the capabilities of any political initiative to correct them - even if there was the political will to correct the situation – which there isn't. Any political will to rectify the situation requires the full agreement of all political parties as to the reasons, and of the remedies – and that just isn't going to happen in our ping-pong petty-point-scoring political arena.