@Mrs,M L Bonwick-Jones
23 November 2011 at 16:29

"Another little tiny point if i may correct me if i am wrong but Long-Term youth unemployment had risen by 40% under New Labour is that the fault of David Cameron.

For heaven's sake woman, think before you comment!

Long term Youth unemployment has risen 77% in 18 months during Cameron’s watch, whereas youth long term unemployment rose 40% in 13 years under the previous Labour government.

Tory = 77% in 18 MONTHS!

Labour = 40% in 13 YEARS!!

Labour borrowed a ton of money and spent it on creating non-jobs in their client state public sector. That is an unsustainable course.

Borrowing is not rational unless the money is invested in a wealth creating activity.

Governments should either raise taxes or cut spending. This endless borrowing is madness as all the money has to be paid back with interest. The more you borrow the more you cannibalise future tax revenue, it's a death spiral.

"But prehaps now that Spain have their first Conservative Prime Minister for 43 years"

And France has had a conservative government for the past 15 years and look, as you say, what they have done to youth unemployment!

Let face it, youth unemployment has always been high, increased by 40% by labour and now 77% by the Tories... fact!

But you have to put it into perspective. Labour ruled under a decade of boom, plentiful borrowing which should have been invested wisely, but were mostly squandered... under these very nice conditions they still managed to increase youth unemployment by 40%! I don't know about you but that is truely shocking. So now the Tories pickup 40% of youth unemployment, add to that the global crisis we are experiencing now it's no wonder it's upto 77%. Cameron hasn't inherited good stats to begin with...

Ed Miliband went on one subject today youth unemployment- i think he was blaming the goverment even when his handsome older brother stated this goverment did not create youth unemployment it has been a problem for years.
Although Ed Miliband's 'ABC anything but Cameron was quite funny, he just seems to follow the same tired script with phrases such as 'out of touch', and because of Ed Milibands choice of shadow chancellor with his very isolated and out of touch way of dealing with the deficit as in spend your way out of dept! when David Cameron ask's the question 'is there any other country who thinks the answer to dept is more dept' he could say 'yes the uk' as George Osborne will need to spend more money then expected but he cannot ever say that Ed is completely stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea! and a message to Ed dear chap the future jobs fund was rubbish it is a pity you cannot see that, and the dig at gorgeous George Osborne was not very fair or correct, be bold next week, and forget the script you are far more better when you are being natural and you will never beat the Prime Minister at PMQ's unless you approach things from a different angle.

'is there any other country who thinks the answer to dept is more dept' he could say 'yes the uk'

Or the danish Social Democrats who have embarked on a stimulus programme, and they even won an election.

ABC - Anybody But Cameron. I like that.

Cameron is a smooth operator. Time will expose that one for the fake he is. EM needs to keep plugging away and build up a strong team and set of policies to rescue this country once this lot have exhausted themselves - and the country.

"i think he was blaming the goverment even when his handsome older brother stated this goverment did not create youth unemployment it has been a problem for years"

If you has listened without your usual bias you would have heard Ed Miliband say( not verbatim) in percentage terms youth unemployment has risen higher during the last 18 months under Cameron's watch than it did in the percentage terms of thirteen years of the last labour government