“Having young people working in charity shops and existing non profit businesses

Comment on General Election 2010 Poll Results by VoteNo ToBNP.

“Having young people working in charity shops and existing non profit businesses could be a way forward?”

This has also been tries before several times each one failing both under the previous Tory “Project Work” programme and under the current Labour “New Deal” programme.

Having spent a lot of time working (and being involved in designing some of these programmes) the bulk of the problems with our 18-25 year olds not wanting to work stems mainly from their parents not having worked for many years, youngsters see benefits as a right and not something they have to earn the right to claim.

The only real effective way to make an impact on youth unemployment (currently 1 million 18-24 years olds on the JSA register) is to change attitudes to work and benefits, in my opinion military service also won’t have any effect because attitudes need to be changed.

This country has a history of youth unemployment which goes through generations of parents not working and the kids seeing that they don’t need to work, we need to make more effort in the education system showing kids the value of working both for themselves and their families, British people have too much of a benefit dependancy culture that no previous Government has managed to change.

Enforcing military service isn’t the answer, all I see that achieving is training teenagers to use guns and then giving them permission to have one, the other issue then comes up once they have done their stint they come back out to NO jobs available and we are then arming the younger generation living on run down council estates weapons can you see what’s going to happen then?

Schools use work experience placements for a few weeks in the last year of schooling, I think we need to make that longer, with the introduction of “Staying On” in 2013 that should be the ideal platform to introduce 16 to 18 y/olds to the world of work make these work placements longer (maybe 6 months at a time) in different companies to give the opportunity for kids to try some career ideas.

But give them incentives to do these placements, related qualifications to the placements, and similar to the current cash incentives kids staying on in education get (can’t remember the name of it) the kids staying on through this system should also be given them, so we then have a form of payment linked to the work related training, the kids get used to having a wage.

Only by changing the attitudes of the younger generation can we make any serious in roads in to stopping youth unemployment, military service doesn’t instill work ethic in my opinion.

And besides that according to other BNP sources (website etc) the military service includes people working on farms and other such jobs, so they would be completing not really military service but enforced unpaid labour (as the BNP don’t mention anywhere that people will be paid during this service) so we have to assume it will be unpaid.