Phil Woolas backs Labour attack on the LibDem and Tory plans to raise unemployment

Labour led the attack in parliament as shocked MPs slammed the LibDems for backing Tory plans to let unemployment rise.

Phil Woolas said:

“The emergency budget will increase unemployment

 

Despite this, the Liberal-Tory government is cutting vital support to get people into jobs

 

The government’s decision to abolish RDAs will damage regional economies when the recovery is still fragile

 

Long-term unemployment costs us all more – both in damage to communities and to the economy

 

In the 90s, the government said unemployment was a price worth paying to get inflation down.  Now they are effectively saying it’s a price worth paying to get the deficit down.”

 

The Tories are at it again. But this time the LibDems are backing every job loss

 

“That this House notes with grave concern that the emergency budget will increase unemployment, calls on the government to publish the Treasury analysis of jobs that will be lost in the public and private sector, condemns the Government’s decision to axe the Future Jobs Fund, the Youth Guarantee and the Jobseekers Guarantee– scrapping hundreds of thousands of jobs and training places for the unemployed; notes that the government is cutting employment support to help people into jobs at a time when growth is still fragile; regrets that the role of the voluntary sector in helping people into work is at risk;  notes that the current claimant count is half the level it was in the 1980s and 1990s as a result of the support and investment Labour provided for jobs and getting people back to work; notes the cost to communities and the economy of long term unemployment and condemns the Government decision to abolish Regional Development Agencies with potentially damaging consequences for regional economies even when the recovery is not yet assured.”