Labour Are Playing Politics When They Should Be Focusing On Job Creation

It’s extraordinary that Labour politicians seem entirely oblivious to the fact that we need to take concrete steps to tackle the unemployment crisis and help create jobs. Their decision to increase National Insurance at a time when businesses are already suffering badly suggests that they are completely out of touch with the problems affecting hard working people and businesses in our area.

So many small businesses I have spoken to have suggested that the rise in National Insurance is effectively a “tax on jobs”. And it is a tax on jobs coming at the worst possible time for job creation. We need action to create jobs in our area. What we absolutely do not need is measures such as this that makes it even more difficult for businesses to create jobs.

We need to create more apprenticeships, more training places, more FE places. We need to get credit flowing to business again and create a dynamic environment for job creation. By playing politics rather than helping to create jobs, the Government have shown that they know little and care even less about the problems affecting hard-working people in the North East. The complacent, out of touch local Labour Party must make way for proud North Easterners, such as me, willing to take the measures our region needs to create more jobs.