In contrast to unemployment growing to 2.5 million under Gordon Brown and Labour, Conservatives promise real support for people across Blackpool and Cleveleys who have lost their jobs, part of our plan to Get Britain Working again.
We will not allow an entire generation of Britons to be written off by Labour’s recession and promise practical support for people with a single Work Programme, based on the individual needs of each person and providing on CV writing, interview technique and job-hunting.
Over the next two years, we promise 400,000 new apprenticeships and training places, offering motivation and hope for the one in five young people in Britain who cannot find work.
Business mentors will be available to offer one-to-one advice to anybody in Blackpool and Cleveleys and across the UK who wants to set up a new business or grow an existing one.
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May 10th, 2010 at 9:10 am
Your party’s proposals for 400,000 apprenticeships are to be commended, but what do you propose to offer to those people who have recently graduated, only to find that the graduate jobs that were described by the government and universities are not available. My son worked hard to get his degree (English and Language Studies) and then did a one year post-graduate diploma in journalism, only to find that the only job he can get is in the lowest clerical grade in the DWP! I also worry that even that job will be under threat, given your party’s pledges to cut public expenditure.