THATCHER'S plans for youth are part of the Tories 'radical manifesto'. To any young person who has passed through state education in the last eight years, or is in the 80 per cent of 16 year old school leavers annually now who do not go into permanent jobs, or has been coerced onto a YTS scheme or has to move home every eight weeks to qualify for housing benefit, or is a student who has lived through the decrease in grants by 24 per cent from their 1979 level — the approach is not new. The Tory mises to round off the policy aimed creating a vast pool of cheap and easilymanipulated youth labour.
place on the Youth school leaver under 18 who is not going directly into a job'. Only 20 per cent do. 'As a result, none of these school leavers need to be unemployed' and the added incentive is: 'we will take steps to ensure that those under 18 who do deliberately choose to remain unemployed are not eligible for benefit.
That is, the Tories will literally force hundreds of thousands of school leavers every year into unsafe, non-unionised, they would get for being on the dole and which now. or course oss tur two vcars.
Having promised industrial conscription for the weakest and most workers, others are promised 'guarantees' mild by comparison. the 18 and 25s unemployed between 6 and 12 months, is 'a place either on the Job Training Scheme or on the Enterprise Allowance Scheme or in a Job Club'. The third, for those older, is a place on a 'Restart' scheme.
Although the compulsion is not spelt out, the implication is obvious. on too of the £100 million yet to be cut benefits of those between 18 and 25, beginning in April 1988, and the avallable lot work questionnaires being introduced. This initiative is planned to cut' 200,000 from the unemployment figures.
manifesto simply pro'first guarantee' to youth is 'a Training Scheme to every temporary jobs at the rate vulnerable of potential The Tories "second guarantee, for These 'guarantees' come from the