Young people in the UK have it tough

It’s what Reform make no attempt to hide, you will have to work it out yourselves. Which might be ok if your young adult is a white, healthy male.

and yet statistics show if you’re young white me and working class your outlook is quite poor, so I think we need to be mindful when we say one group is ok.

This is what happens when you have millions on benefits that everyone else has to pay for

I believe one of the reasons for the increase of young people on benefits is the luck of jobs, housing and subsequently independence from their parents.

I worry for my own DC , luckily DC one has found a graduate job with good pay. But it's not enough to pay for a room on top of living independently with all it entrails. So they are gonna move back with us and take a one way 90min train journey to work every day seasons ticket is ££££ - it's grim. Even though they are one of the luckily ones!
DC2 is only 15....

Yeah, so automation then.

Just using pointless words doesn’t change the meaning. Or sound clever.

That’s not happening here, though, is it?

That's not a lot of use to a recent graduate that wants an entry level job. Agree with PP, I think trickle down is a myth told by rich people.

The irony of your post when I could say the same about the stock denial that comes out of those too lazy to apply critical thought. AI is not the same as automation. In simple terms, AI represents a fundamentally different economic shock than traditional automation. While past automation replaced routine physical labor, generative AI is disrupting cognitive and creative work, meaning the scale, speed, and types of jobs affected are entirely unprecedented.

Maybe you don’t follow the news. Or the markets. Or what’s happening in the world. The US, India, far east all have booming tech and AI sectors and generating jobs and wealth from it.

I can't see much evidence of that lately.

Yeah it creates new ones. Great, isn’t it.

Sad but true

Automation inevitably affects jobs though.

Here we go. Throw in AI because it’s what you must say. Be sure no sentence can ever be complete without throwing in AI because it sounds cool or something.

AI is automation. Like there has been automation since the dawn of time.

Yeah right. Yet we had over 800k immigrants into the country last year. Thats nearly a million people coming in. Madness.

Don't worry. The way Labour is going we will be third world soon so the comparison will be valid.

So we just have to compare us to the third world now do we?

What is the point of training people if there are no jobs?

All the wealthy people have left the country and no-one will invest if they are going to be taxed to high heaven.

I heard on the radio recently that if at the age of 20 you claim benefits there is an extremely high chance you will be claiming them when you hit 30.
It's all very well though saying young people need to work but there are no jobs. Labour need to stop hammering business and create a strong progressive economy. Generate money instead of spending it on the ever increasing welfare bill .

In the UK, a microscopic fraction of the population, just the top 0.00017% (the richest 50 families or roughly 150 billionaires), owns more combined wealth than the entire bottom 50% of the population (about 34 million people) combined.

When widening the scope to the richest 1% of Britons, this group holds more total wealth than the bottom 70% to 80% of the country put together.

Instead of looking up, we keep looking down and blaming benefits, the "lazy" youth, who now have AI to contend with, or just blame whichever party is in power, even though the next party you vote for doesn't have any answers either. Companies will continue to put shareholder primacy over everything else and jobs will continue to disappear wherever possible.

The truth is none of that money at the top is trickling down, it's just getting sucked upwards. Without this issue being addressed, there's not going to be any change. Not the immigrants, not the lazy on benefits, that's just the "look over there" distraction while the rich pick your pockets.

Labour announced training for youngsters not in education or work.
Well let's hope it's meaningful training with real qualifications at the end.
Unlike the Mickey mouse schemes that have went before.
I remember being on a computer one years ago hardly touched a computer and these training companies are paid fortunes.

Labour at least asked for Milburn to write a report.

Conservatives had years and didn’t give a toss.

Reform would just remove benefits for the young and disabled under the umbrella of “low state” low tax for the rich.

Companies will only put long term investment into a country if the have the belief of steady leadership. Not some media circus that will be a Reform government if it happens.

It’s what Reform make no attempt to hide, you will have to work it out yourselves. Which might be ok if your young adult is a white, healthy male.

The people who want to work are struggling because Labours policies are encouraging all the wealthy people to leave the UK so who is going to create the jobs?

The Tory's are just as bad. They killed all growth off with Austerity and the refusal to invest in their population.

It has been widely reported that those that want to get jobs are really struggling
They do struggle, but with perceverence, they get there. The problem is they are not used to not get what they want right away so many give up too quickly.

A lot of people on benefits are working people anyway. If anything I'm surprised more people haven't given up on trying to find work given that it's not going to be a route to a better life if you still need to be topped up with handouts.

Oh and we also have people actually working needing to claim benefits too.