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'Our youth deserve a future too!'
Darcus Howe speaks out on the recent rise of youth unemployment in Britain
Written by Darcus-Howe
24/11/2011 01:38 PM

JOB HUNT: Man looks in window at job vacancies

IT WAS announced on a news programme last week that youth unemployment will reach one and-a-half million in the near future.

I had just returned from a two-week vacation in the Caribbean. Before I left for my holiday, young men and women from black communities had been labelled criminals by the Prime Minister from his pulpit in the House of Commons.

I have lived in this country for 49 years, and I am certain that the young men and women from the class to which David Cameron belongs are assured of their future in work. Politicians and professionals from the ruling caste will make certain that their children and grandchildren will be employed, come what may. Not so the young from within our communities. Already they are deemed criminals and the tenor of his outburst indicates that they will remain hopelessly so.

So far ours are mere statistics; faithless and consigned to a lumpen proletarian life. How they live, what they do from sun up to sundown is of no concern to any of those who rule and govern. Do the coalition Government believe that black teenagers and young people will sit idly by and accept a lifetime of nothingness?

The parade of fashionistas that we see on TV are there to tease and taunt the public to chase the images. The fancy car, the jewellery, the neatly furnished homes are not to be ignored, I am sure. Our offspring will not be left behind as the obedient detritus of British humanity, consigned to the dustbin of contemporary life.

The political leaders and social grandees speak in foreign tongues about how we arrived at this sorry pass. What on earth is quantitative easing? What indeed is the Eurozone crisis and the rest of the gobbledygook in which they encircle themselves? We, our children and grandchildren are not responsible for the economic social mess that we are in. But we can offer a solution.

Why not shorten the working week, and the working day? That seems to be the only way we can reduce unemployment on a massive scale and by so doing increase the productivity of this tiny nation state called England.

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the TBB

Dear Devil's Advocate, thank u for cheering me up over the years by waking up the people U Great Trinidadian, let us all together praise our 'Youths' for they are trully our future...so lets keep on celebrating them!

Regards the TBB.

Wed, 2011-12-21 21:56

'Our youth deserve a future too!'

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Troy

Darcus, stop speaking the truth, they don't like it.

Years ago I read Alice in wonderland, at the beginning of the story, Alice said, "If I rule the world, I would make everything look like nonsense so only I will know what is going on"

Well we are in a world where we are told by our moral leaders that in order to save lives they need to bomb nation after nation into oblivion (but only if the people are of colour).

Parliament is full of criminals (Expense scandal, bribes, I don't have space to put them all down)

Getting back to the point; we should not really worry about what these so called leaders think, we should just withdraw our input on all levels like the civil servants and let’s see how long they can ignore our plight. I also think that many of our young do not vote so who are they going to complain to? Look, the politicians rob the state funds, no repercussions, the bankers rob the banks, no repercussions, the police kill innocent people no repercussions, the Lawyers rob their clients no repercussions, teachers rob children of their education, no repercussions, the church rob children of their dignity god will judge them, no repercussion.

The logic of making people work years longer and not realise this will affect unemployment among the young is crazy, also companies going abroad for skills is another madness, why not make them train-up those here.

We have to start getting creative, thinking outside the box, and we can start by looking at where our few pennies are going.

Tue, 2011-12-13 13:47
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