We Must Prioritise The Creation Of Jobs

I have been blogged quite a few times about how we need to take action to tackle the problem of unemployment, which devastates familes and communities. In North Durham, unemployment is over 70% higher than it was a year ago. Nationally we have had the biggest increases in unemployment since records began this year. The Government have given us platitudes but no action. It is time we had action to get people back to work.

Getting people in North Durham back to work will be my number one priority if I am elected. That is why I am calling for radical measures to incentivise the creation of new jobs; the provision personalised support for unemployed people to help them find work; the creation of more training places, more apprenticeships and more FE places.

We have a moral and economic imperative to help create jobs and help people back to work. We have an moral and economic imperative to ensure that the recession does not create a ‘lost generation’ of young people. Labour have failed the people of North Durham over jobs. It is time they stepped aside so that we can have real and determined action to tackle unemployment.