MANY traditional Labour voters will stay at home (if they've got one) at this General Election. Labour who have generally relied on young people for support can no longer count on he majority of them even casting a ballot.
Its no surprise youth feel allenated with the system, when both parties scapegoat them for society's ills. It is sickening to see New Labour competing with the Tories to put young people under lock and guard.
Rather than restering rights to young people after the Torles have removed them through Acts like the CJA, New Labour promises to curtail their freedoms even more through job conscription for the young unemployed, the slammer for young offenders, and house arrest for young kids on the bleck.
At work youth will still face an Insecure future, as Labour refuses to grant rights from day one of employment.
Young people will not religlously vote for New Labour, when It doesn't even crusade against poverty. Blair wlll be no Samarltan to the young homeless, lgnoring their begging for a restoration of grants for 16-18 year olds. He wont reverse the 20% cut in JSA for the young jobless. He wishes to exempt youth from minimum wage As well as refusing to tax the rich and redistribute wealth, Labour refuses to spend more money on education, health and transport. Students will sink deeper into debt, more youth will grow up in unhealthy surroundings and traffic will grind to a halt.
The Tories have dug themselves into a hole and their Transport Minister Steven Norris. says he can now sympathise with the views of Swampy the roads protester.
Yet Norris won't build any more roads only because the Tories economic programme hasn't the funds for them.
Labour's adoption of this very same programme will prolong the transport chaos created by privatisation of bus and rail services.
Youth are being told by Labour and Torles the capitalist economy nas not the money to meel their urgent needs. Young people must then tur their backs on T!