LABOUR’S prospective parlimentary candidate, Polly Billington has slammed Thurrock MP, Jackie Doyle Price over the rising tide of youth unemployment in Thurrock.
Figures today show the number of unemployed young people in Thurrock has doubled in less than a year.
Ms Billington said: “The local Tory MP has nothing to say about how to give young people in Thurrock a chance to work. Instead she supports the Government’s reckless economic policies that are hurting but not working.
“Every time Jackie Doyle Price votes for the government in Westminster she votes against the people of Thurrock and nowhere is that more true in her commitment to an economic plan that is costing us all dear.
“The truth is while young people are without work we all pay the price of lost talent and rising benefits bills.
“This government will end up borrowing more because more people are on the dole. That is an almighty hangover for Britain to deal with.
“The government is now set to borrow £158 billion more than planned – more than £6,500 for every household in Thurrock.
“This isn’t borrowing to support the economy through difficult times, but a huge new bill for failure.”
“If she really cared about the future of our economy and our young people she would back Labour’s five point plan for jobs which would create 4,000 jobs for young people in the East of England through a repeat of the bank bonus tax to create real jobs for young people and give 210, 000 small businesses a tax break to take on new employees.”
Jackie Doyle Price is unavailable for comment.
The analysis
Channel 4 News looked at the figures supplied by Labour leader Ed Miliband
“Mr Miliband claimed that between July and September for every job being created in the private sector – 13 were lost in the public sector. And he’s right – 67,000 jobs were lost compared to 5,000 gained in the private sector – that’s a ratio of around 13 to one.
And the situation has deteriorated considerably in comparison to the previous quarter, where the ratio was about 2.5 to one. Some 111,000 jobs went in the public sector and around 41,000 were created in the private sector between April and June.
So we’re heading increasingly rapidly in the wrong direction, something even the Prime Minister eventually acknowledged, despite deploying his classic “move the start line” defence to make the situation sound a lot less bleak than it is.
Mr Cameron said: “Since the election, in the private sector, there have been 581,000 extra jobs. In the public sector, he’s right – we have lost 336,000 jobs.”
Regular readers will recognise this immediately as a well-worn ploy we’ve taken issue with before.
What Mr Cameron habitually does is pull the time-frame back to before the election to cover the changes that took place in the second quarter of last year – when there was a massive spike in private sector growth.
But as the election came in the middle of that quarter, we don’t know how many of those jobs were created before Mr Cameron can reasonably claim the credit.
If we look at the most recent year-on-year trend, we see that private sector jobs are up 262,000 compared with the third quarter of 2010, and public sector employment has decreased by 276,000. So that’s a net loss of 14,000 jobs over the last 12-month period for which we have figures.
Another Labour sister with complete amnesia.
A Labour wannabe politician criticising increased government spending? Whatever next? Considering that the last Labour government only really had one policy, collect loads of tax, borrow loads of money and throw it at the core voters, it’s a bit rich. Now the only way out is to tax the banks some more? Whatever you think of the banks, taxing them more is likely to convince them they could operate just as effectively out of Hong Kong. Anyway, if Labour were to win an election, Ed Balls would be chancellor and he was largely responsible for the shambolic mess the country’s finances are in now. Sorry Polly, you are wasting your breath.
And now it all starts………… what the heck does this Labour wannabe know about Thurrock, she has only just set foot into the area and had probably never even heard or known where Thurrock was until 10 minutes ago…
As grays64 has said, if the last Labour government had not screwed up the countries economy and left absolutley nothing in the pot then maybe we would not be in such a state.
Polly is just another Labour Party member with selective amnesia.
i don’t really understand this…. How does taxing the banks more, create jobs? I’m more than happy for someone to explain it, I can understand the logic that says that if you tax someone, you can borrow less provided you don’t spend any more but, taxes create jobs is typical Labour party thinking… i think that we need to remember that, ALL unemployment in Thurrock is JDP’s fault.
I think i might support Labours 5 point plan as well, as usual, all spin and no substance…
Interesting that none of these commentators thought to reflect upon the analysis in the bottom half of the article which seems to show that, whatever your politcal affiliation, the current plans are not working.
It just goes to show that people much prefer to stick to their beliefs than engage with the evidence.
It’s interesting that some commentators can’t accept that to continue spending what you don’t have is not sustainable. Another statistice is that public expenditure under Labour more than doubled over the last 10 years they were in government. Welfare, health and education budgets went up by well over 100% and w
It’s interesting that some commentators can’t accept that to continue spending what you don’t have is not sustainable. Another statistic is that public expenditure under Labour more than doubled over the last 10 years they were in government. Welfare, health and education budgets went up by well over 100% and what have we got to show for that. Can Labour explain where all the money went and what the improvements achieved were? Labour were implicit in the causes of the current situation. It’s a bit rich to now point the finger like the sister has been in a coma for the last 10 years.
Why is the answer always to tax somebody some more? Surely the answer, although counter-intuitive to anybody with a socialist bent, is to tax everybody less? Put more money back into the pockets of people, encourage spending which will, in turn, encourage manufacturing, encourage companies to employ more people and ins so doing put the balance back into the economy. Government is bloody awful at spending our money so let us do it for ourselves. Having the government do much less, not much more, has to be the way to go. In my humble opinion.
I can’t find any data to back up her statement, where are the statisics showing youth unemploment has doubled?
If her campaign strategy is to make things up, then I think the Conservative Party will be launching operation keep Ed and Polly. I guess we can see why Ed keep getting poor advice