PROSPECTIVE parliamentary candidate for Thurrock (Lab), Polly Billington has reacted with anger at the latest set of job figures for Thurrock.
Latest Labour Market Statistics for Thurrock claim that the number of over 25’s in Thurrock claiming JSA is up by over 50%.
Ms Billington said: “The number of people who are out of work in the east of England has risen. The number of people over 25 in Thurrock claiming job seekers allowance is also up by over 50%.
“While Jackie Doyle Price’s government is boasting about a recovery, its clear many people here in Thurrock are really struggling.
Last year Coryton oil refinery closed with the loss of 800 jobs – the Tory-led government failed to act. This year we are facing the closure of Tilbury power station with the loss of at least 200 jobs – because ministers deliberately chose not to act.
“The Tories are turning their back on Thurrock again and again. The result is families are battling. They’re battling another fall in wages and the risks of insecure work. There is simply not enough work to go round and the proof is a record high in the number of part-time workers looking for full-time jobs.
“Real wages fell yet again by £12 a week; unemployment went up across half of Britain; the youth jobless rate rose by 9,400 and long term unemployment rose yet again. There’s now been an incredible rise of
364,000 part time workers looking for full time jobs since the election.
“Under David Cameron, Britain’s cost of living crisis is not improving, it’s intensifying.
“There is an alternative. Labour wants to help to make work pay by introducing a lower 10p starting rate of tax, paid for by a mansion tax, and to repeat the tax on bank bonuses to pay for a compulsory jobs guarantee for young people.”
“Thurrock needs a recovery that will benefit the people who want to be part of Britain’s success. At the moment they are being left behind.”
I love it. there isn’t enough jobs to go around and wages are falling. has Polly had an epiphany moment. Guess what Polly, supply and demand run market economies, of which we happen to be part of. Now guess what policy of the Labour party skewed the demand side of our economy. is Polly really this thick.
What is really worrying is that, come the election, people will still vote Polly just because she wears the red rosette. They will vote Labour despite their policy of mass immigration which has resulted in depressed wages and a reduction in the jobs available to young indigenous people. They will vote Labour despite the fact that their tax and spend policies ruined the country’s finances and crippled the economy. They will vote Labour despite the promise to impose a mansion tax that will financially ruin some pensioners who are unfortunate enough to be living in the South East in a large (ish) house but with a very small income (which, by the way, will no doubt lead to loads of abandoned houses that nobody can afford to move into). They will vote Labour despite the weak, ineffectual Ed Milliband and the hopeless Ed Balls. It’s enough to make a grown man weep!
Also Polly, the 10p tax rate argument is dead isn’t it? Surely the coalition’s raising of the tax threshold to 10k is a better policy? didn’t the last Labour government abolish the 10p rate anyway?
Labour surely have to do better than this? Surely people can’t vote Labour on the basis of the drivel Polly and her ilk keep spouting? Can they?
Here we go again………the country was left is wrack and ruin by the last Labour government, this resulted in loss of revenue for lots of companies who could no longer afford their workers, the mass influx of Europeans into the country by both Conservative and Labour governments have flooded the market with cheap labour, the tax initiatives that were put in place by Labour along with the state hand outs actually mean it is better not to work than to.
It is about time that all the parties got of their moral high horses and started to work together to reverse the downwards spiral of this once great country.
Lambo – With reference to your last paragraph, I’ve been saying that for months on my blog and for years in conversations with people. It’s nice to see that at least one person has caught up with me. I wonder when the rest of society will catch up too?
Blue labour is the answer. Get rid of the social workers and the professional whingers in the Labour party.
Labour cannot turn blue NoVoice.
Their core vote consists of droves of lazy people who can work but choose not to (particularly up North), recent immigrants and public sector middle class people (very much like Polly herself) so whilst Blue Labour might be appealing in an Essex seat like Thurrock and a fair few Northern English seats as well, it would probably give the Lib Dems a few extra metroplitan seats – those are the seats Labour care more about…
there is a debate Bernard87 in the Labour party. The admissions of senior Labour party officials about their involvement in mass immigration policies that are now crippling this country is an issue they obviously want to bury.
People like yourself with common sense can understand the issue this has caused for state spending, no doctors available, no school places, a failing NHS, children that can’t afford their own home. Unfortunately people like Polly still make an argument for more of the same. Can anyone imagine another 13 years of state spending and mass immigration under Labour as they currently exist.
My argument Bernard87 is that they need to be changed from within. They were taken over by the subversive haters of this country and I think the party needs to be taken back. The unions are starting the process and I think they need to continue that.
Everybody knows that you can’t have businesses paying no tax while an individual on PAYE now pays 50% of their earnings to the tax man when they earn £33k. i couldn’t even buy a bedsit on £33k.
Labour are ripe for the taking, it just depends on where their leaders and main supporters want to take the party. It could be victory for the country or it could be the euro route to complete failure and dictatorship. We all know where that goes.
I can’t see Labour changing. All three main parties are ruled by people from extremely similar backgrounds. They genuinely believe that they are born to rule the rest of us, regardless of whether they are on the left or the right. However all three main parties have many MPs who do not share this view but are helpless to do anything about it.
Admittedly Labours situation is worse as they preach to the poor yet very few of them have ever lived on a council estate, worried about personal finances, had to raise kids on their own, had to deal with crime on a regular basis etc. Labour play on peoples stupidity by making a large section of the population think that they have to be dependant on the state at all costs. Folk like Polly are not going to change Labour policy as their current policies have worked well.
The immigration thing has gone so wrong that the only thing Labour can do is pretend that it didn’t happen – which they seem to be doing well. Exceptionally well in fact.
Bernard87 you are right but you need to wait until next year. You have to remember that the tidal wave this country absorbed is now hitting all the other countries in Europe. Even the Germans are having second thoughts. The EU has again refused to accept the findings of their own auditors. Change Labour and the Tories the game is up. Rather than talk about defeatism, like the Labour party do, talk about national pride, what other country in Europe is accepting the European unemployed to take their jobs and houses. This country is the place that is keeping the southern european countries afloat.
Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland got told what governments to have and what way they should vote on Europe. The party that does this in this country will be finished forever. roll on 2014 and 2015, this is our time.