David Cameron has said that he wants further cuts to benefits so as to fund more apprenticeships for young people without jobs. This is at the same time as leading Britain into another war in the middle east which could cost billions of pounds and yet achieve nothing.
It appears however that David Cameron's plan is actually for young people on benefits to pick up litter. Does this really deserve to be called an apprenticeship? In times of old, an apprenticeship was an arrangement whereby a young boy learned a skill - usually a craft - which ideally would allow him to earn a living for the whole of his working life. Nowadays however the word appears to be almost devoid of meaning.
Meanwhile, Ed Miliband wants to tax bank bonuses so as to fund a jobs programme for young people. He seems to forget that Tony Blair's Labour government in the late 1990s used a windfall tax to fund a rehash of failed Conservative policies known as the New Deal. Have Labour learned anything from their time in opposition?
Related previous posts include:
Ed's apprenticeships
LibLabCon failure on youth unemployment
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