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Critics of Government work experience programme are 'jobs snobs', says minister 19 Feb 2012 20:54 #1603

Chris Grayling, the employment minister, hits out at the critics of a flagship Government scheme to combat joblessness amongst the young.

For such job snobbery he is engaging MI6 to track the culprits to sanction them…. This is what you get when bureaucrats envision themselves as leaders –they have totally no sense of the effects on people their policy has. For this outburst he should resign….

Critics of Government work experience programme are 'jobs snobs', says minister

So how, you might wonder, could left-wing commentators and media whip themselves into the kind of frenzy that we have seen in recent days? It’s “twenty-first century slavery”, they say. “Forced labour” must stop.

The answer, I’m afraid, is very simple. The critics are job snobs. Day after day the Guardian newspaper publishes stories attacking big retailers for offering short term unpaid work experience placements for young people.

But that same Guardian newspaper advertises on its website, yes, you guessed it, short term unpaid work experience placements for young people.

So they think it’s not acceptable for Tesco to offer a first opportunity to a young person to join an organisation which employs hundreds of thousands of people in a wide variety of roles around the world. But it is OK for a left-wing newspaper in the UK to do it.

Source; Telegraph
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Re: Critics of Government work experience programme are 'jobs snobs', says minister 19 Feb 2012 22:38 #1607

Not sure I understand! The Guardian has been challenged on a number of occasions by right wing trolls on its "comment is free" section. It has made clear that any internships are paid. So why attack the one steadfast national media ally in the fight against workfare? Please don't fall in to the usual internal wrangling which destroys a unified front against the real enemy.
This is too important and we are too near making real progress to destroy what we have fought for by internecine squabbling.
Keep your eye on the main prize - the destruction of workfare.
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Re: Critics of Government work experience programme are 'jobs snobs', says minister 19 Feb 2012 23:42 #1608

uh, what are talking about Gissajob, this is merely reporting on an article and Graylings own ineptness. Who`s attacking the guardian here?

As too making headway on the destruction of workfare I think your too optimistic. I remember the 80`s when YTS and the Community Programme came about and the same arguments being used, media hyperbole and massive Union involvement were about then. Too what end, the schemes went on for many more years.

There is no group squabbling just check reality by not getting carried away.
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Re: Critics of Government work experience programme are 'jobs snobs', says minister 20 Feb 2012 20:42 #1616

Under pressure and playing the racism card…..


Put British workers to top of recruitment list says Chris Grayling

Employers should give young British jobseekers priority over applicants from abroad, the employment minister has said.

Chris Grayling said UK companies should put British nationals “at the top of their priority list” to help reduce the number of jobs going to people from Eastern Europe.

The minister also launched a strong defence of Government schemes to give welfare claimants work-experience at big firms, which have been criticised by Left-wing groups.

There are around 2.67 million unemployed people in the UK, more than 1 million of them aged less than 25.

Even as overall unemployment has risen, the number of foreign nationals with jobs in the UK has risen. Official figures for the last quarter of 2011 show that the number of non-UK nationals in employment was 2.58 million, up 166,000 from a year earlier.

Mr Grayling said that some British school-leavers and graduates are struggling to be hired because they are competing with older, better qualified rivals from elsewhere in the European Union.

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Re: Critics of Government work experience programme are 'jobs snobs', says minister 20 Feb 2012 22:38 #1618

Chris Grayling on UK unemployment (19Feb12) video

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Re: Critics of Government work experience programme are 'jobs snobs', says minister 21 Feb 2012 16:17 #1622

OK but I would have thought the statement
"But that same Guardian newspaper advertises on its website, yes, you guessed it, short term unpaid work experience placements for young people."

might just be constued as an attack/criticism.
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Re: Critics of Government work experience programme are 'jobs snobs', says minister 21 Feb 2012 23:09 #1624

Come off it Gissajob you’ve been with us some time now and know how I post my opinion first/intro, then the article and then the link. The statement is obviously coming from that vile man and to continue that it is me saying it is insulting.

Are you saying through this that we should self-censor our posts? Because it sounds like it and would be totally wrong headed by any poster here. This is not twitter good news, were winning the battle cry, I hope people allow themselves the opportunity to post, discuss and criticise any subject area.

The Guardian, Boycott workfare etc. are not scared; they have their limitations both as a campaign and where the media (Papers) is concerned they will swing with whichever way the wind is blowing.
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