Published on 31st March 2025
Introduction
A new offensive has been opened in Labour’s civil war against the British nation. The next group of soft targets are those well-recognized ‘enemies of the people’: the young.
Rachel Reeves used a recent appearance on Sky to read out the judgement passed on them by the Labour cabinet: the young are leeches on the economy. Reeves will now mete out suitable punishment: stopping their money.
The Uni-party, Covid and the young
Labour are not the progenitors of this attack: Uni-party neglected the young during Covid. The Tories, egged on by unanimous Uni-party support, threw the young under a bus with their ineptitude and myopia. Labour now go where the Tories blazed the trail, but cranking up the offensive with a frontal assault.
Does the government understand the impact of their measures?
The processes of this government are based on labelling.
On top of the fault of not understanding the impact of their individual measures on an individual person, they now add the unforgivable trait of failing to grasp that several of their measures can accumulate and cause exponential damage to a single person or stakeholder group.
It seems to have eluded them, regarding their offensives so far, that a single person could sit under more than one of their labels: pensioner, driver, electricity-user, second-home owner, farmer, small business, employer. But then it must by now be clear that Starmer does not know or understand what the individual hooligans in his cabinet are doing, and still less how their assaults overlap.
Reeves’ masterplan to punish the UK’s young people
Speaking recently on Sky to Beth Rigby on the Electoral Dysfunction (how appropriate) podcast, Rachel Reeves delivered Labour’s verdict: ‘One statistic: there are a million young people not in education, employment or training. That is a travesty.’
‘Many of those people, I would say the majority of those people should be working. And under the plans that we’re going to bring in, they will be working and crucially, they will be given support to get back to work.’[1]
‘Get back to work’ – what about those who have never been in work?
‘Support’ – in what way will that differ from bullying and coercion?
Denial about the effect on young people of Uni-party’s response to Covid
A travesty is something that makes a mockery of what it is supposed to be. Young people’s lives have become a travesty because of the Uni-party handling of Covid. Reeves’ statement is a further travesty: stating that young people’s situation is difficult without mentioning the damage done to them by official Covid policy, endorsed by the Labour wing of Uni-party.
Labour have started off by crashing the economy
Young people’s situation would be improved by the existence of a range of job opportunities in a flourishing economy. Labour have put paid to that by crashing the economy.
Labour have attacked the kind of work opportunity that would be the first step on the ladder for many young people
Within its general crashing of the economy Labour are inflicting special damage on exactly the types of jobs that young people might look to for getting their first experience. The rise in Employer National Insurance Contributions will have a particularly negative impact on Minimum Wage and low-paid jobs. We can expect a high number of this year’s school leavers to go straight into the dole queue.
Worker rights reforms drafted by trade unions will benefit existing employees while shutting out prospective ones
Not content with that, Labour plan to increase employment rights for those lucky enough to have a job. This will both make employers less likely to hire new staff, and reduce labour mobility: existing employees will do very nicely thank you where they are, lowering employee turnover and further reducing the number of job openings available to those seeking work.
Starmer’s EU Re-set threatens to import the EU’s Youth Unemployment Crisis to add to our own one
A mobility scheme for work and study for all EU residents under 30 is proposed under Labour’s Re-set of relations with the EU. The UK will import a further tranche of the EU’s Youth Unemployment Crisis. This is a repeat of what happened after the 2010-3 Eurozone debt crisis and the subsequent Eurozone recession. Our young people will be competing head-on with millions more EU jobseekers, in a contracting jobs market.
Summary of Labour measures
Labour first stigmatize our young people as a problem in their own right, instead of as victims of Uni-party’s Covid policies. That is gaslighting.
Labour plan to kick their benefits away to save money, at the same time as preparing a jobs market disaster for them. Then they plan to throw the UK jobs market open to 50 million or more young jobseekers from the EU.
[1] https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/gen-z-not-looking-for-work-face-benefit-cuts-rachel-reeves-hints-3570711