Reeves condemns rise in ‘NEET’ youth as a ‘stain on our country’

I mean generally I would prefer it if the Chancellor worded it along the lines of “We need to do more to educate Bitains young people”

Than making it sound like she is in some sort of bleach commercial, and the kids are some sort of noxious cartoon germs that are going to have some nice caustic, yet minty fresh chemical poured over them.

Her genius plan? Shout at them and threaten them with destitution.

Give them something to aspire to then? The middle class is dead and with it a lot of aspiration.

Not just the government either, employers have got far too used to being able to rip off the workforce because of insane demand vs scarce supply of jobs.

They really should put a huge public awareness campaign in to government backed apprenticeships, there’s not even an age limit on them now in England

The country desperately needs skilled tradespeople but I bet the vast majority of NEETS don’t even know it’s available to them

I think the ideal solution would be making non-disabled people on benefits have to do a certain number of volunteering hours each week. It might encourage people to seek better work if the alternative is litter picking and tree planting rather than videogames and a boring meeting once a week.

I finished Uni recently and I have been desperately looking for a job. Not even grad jobs, I’ll do mostly anything but it’s so dead

I do enjoy £25k a year entry level jobs asking for 2 years experience

I would not do it because I want to be independent, not rely on the state and actually do something with my life. But when it’s probably easier for me to get on benefits than actually secure an entry level role, something is wrong

Hello. NINE THOUSAND POUNDS PER YEAR UNIVERSITY FEES, over here.

Only stain on this country is the idiot 50 somethings who have ran us into a decade of hardship and the other 50 somethings who voted for them over and over again.

Create high quality jobs with good pay and conditions alongside high quality, affordable housing and watch how quickly things change.

Misleading working. Here’s the full quote:

Reeves, meanwhile, highlighted plans to expand apprenticeship access for those who did not achieve English or maths GCSE requirements. She concluded that turning these statistics around must be a priority, insisting: “It is a stain on our country that we are allowing a million people to sit at home doing often nothing.”

I never expected to see parliament talking about neets but here we go

Maybe they should just lie on their cv’s like our good chancellor.

Can’t the government give tax subsidies to companies hiring 18-24 year olds????

Send her the wage chart on this page every day until she gets it:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64970708.amp

The Tories basically created the NEET category in society with their neoliberal policies and austerity, now Labour are continuing down the same path while complaining about something they’re helping to perpetuate.

Politicians on this country have completely run out of ideas, we need radical change before Reform comes in and really makes a mess of things.

Christ, this thread is depressing, does every here live in permanent state of misery

>Chancellor voiced alarm that nearly one million 18-24-year-olds are currently “sitting at home doing nothing” instead of gaining valuable skills or workplace experience.

(1) How does she know what one million adults do in the privacy of their own homes?

(2) What valuable skills? As employers replace most jobs with automation and AI, what are the specific skills – which do not involve having wealthy parents to fund your university or the ability to have a career in something decent as those roles are kept for those with privileges – what specific skills?

(3) What workplace experience? Being barely trained, dealing with toxic people, underpaid, no job security, cannot afford a house or to start a family … Is that the experience they are missing out on?

(4) She has signed off billions to warzones, billions to landlords, millions to her colleagues yet the NHS remains crippled – billions lost to private temp agencies … Education underfunded so many more children turn 18 with zero worthwhile achievements … Can’t start a business as no funding or grants … Can’t get a loan as banks refuse … What country are we paying for here? While middle eastern, Chinese and russian millionaires buy up London , no one can afford to even rent there.

What has she done to resolve this except falsely accuse the young people… The very young people we need for a future!

Failed by every government I’ve seen in my life.

Am 37, work ft temp jobs and am carer for parent who is disabled from chronic illness.

I do not blame the one million young people at all.

I was squeezed like a lemon and thrown away.

Good for them to maintain their health, their energy and preserve their sanity rather than be enslaved.

We can’t all bullshit on our LinkedIn and CV to get plum jobs Rachel.

I actually had some hope for this lot. Are you only allowed to be a politician if you’re a tone deaf elitist arsehole?

Stop fucking taxing the fuck out of people who work hard to better themselves, but really struggling. Youngsters are thinking what’s the point, if I was their age I’d be the same.

seeing all the comments on here, i thought i would share what im currently going through work wise…

skip to *** for present day situ

I’m 33 years old, have always had a job since about the age of 12 (if you count an every morning paper round) but the past year and a bit has been the worst year of my working life.

For the past 13 or so years, I have worked within the IT industry, started off in the technical side of it and for the last 5/6 years has been on client relationship/service/account management. 2023 I was made redundant from one of the big four financial auditing firms and landed another job that was very much miss-sold. (if the british public knew the state of that software solution for one of, if not the most important department’s/office in britain, they wouldn’t be happy, I cant say anymore)

After 7 months, i was let go on a technicallity and even though i had the HARD evidence to disprove the reasoning, they didnt care.

I was then out of work for about 3 months and was desperate to land another so I took a sales focussed position in a local IT firm, small, liked the MD, thought I would give it a shot. The last quarter I was there was slow, he had aggressively expanded when he hired me and let me and one other person go due to costs.

*** That was October. I have been out of work since. I have applied for in excess of 150 jobs, each job i apply for has over 100 applicants already within 4 hours, I have managed to land quite a few interviews, made it to the 3rd stage 4 times and each time, I get barely any usable feedback to help improve for the next interview. “Such and such thought you were great and there was nothing wrong, we just thought the other candidate was a better fit culturally”

The hoops you have to go through these days during the multi stage process is starting to get silly as well. For the roles im applying for, you would expect some hoops but im having to produce PowerPoints, take psychometric and psychoanalysis tests, english and math reasoning ability tests, present to audiences, the demands are starting to get silly.

It has gotten to the point that I am now casting the net far wider so if the skills I have accquired over the last 5 years are translatable to any role, in any industry, thats what im now doing.

Thank you to all of you that shared your stories, its a daily battle to not feel like a failure and letting those close to me down. Reading your comments has helped alleviate this more than i thought it would

How about improve quality of life then?

And stop letting 1 million plus people in every year who destroy our country