According to latest Government figures 1 in 6 young people is a “NEET” – not in employment, education or training – ie the dole.

This figure is higher for 18 year old boys, one in 5 of them are also on the dole with no training, education or jobs.

This massive increase in unemployment for young people is only going to get worse. All of the low paid, insecure, shite jobs in call centres are disappearing and young people that do have jobs are often paid a pittance.

One of millions of young people forced to watch reruns of Mock The Week on Dave

The Government wants to force young people into the same insecure, low paid jobs when they can be found by threatening to cut off benefits – a pitiful £110 a week for over 21’s, and lower for 18 year olds.

This is what Thatcher did during the 80’s when her Government had systematically destroyed all manufacturing jobs in the UK, ripping the heart out of communities and replacing them with the insecure, “flexible” work we have today.

The press and the Government want to attack young people as lazy, drug users, and stupid as an excuse for high youth unemployment, but the facts are it’s cos of their recession more and more young people are unemployed, not that Jeremy Kyle and daytime telly is suddenly amazing.

SSY says start confiscating the billions of wealth the millionaires in this country have in this country – Barclays recently gave out £4 Billion in bonuses alone – and use it to fund hundreds of thousands of well paid, meaningful jobs for young people in their communities.

Thats apprenticeships for plumbers, joiners and builders to start building the houses people – especially young people – need, it’s funding for free education so those who want to study at uni but can’t afford it have the opportunity can, its running hundreds of community supermarkets to provide cheap consumer goods to hundreds of thousands of people across Scotland.

Look how happy these young people are, they’ve just had a joint and beaten David Cameron to death with his own shoes.

Unfortunately none of the main parties will fight for those opportunities for young people, who they still think should be paid a pitiful minimum wage – with under 21 year olds getting less just because of their age.

Labour, SNP, Tories and Liberals might want hundreds of thousands of young people in Scotland to be a “lost generation” cos they won’t challenge the bankers, but there is a socialist alternative.

SSY wants to stop the demonisation and mass unemployment of young people, and instead use the massive wealth hoarded by the superich to give them the opportunities to enjoy their own lives and work well paid, engaging and needed jobs in their communities.

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