Brown's children: on the scrap heap?

By the time the country goes to the polls in 2010, Jobcentres will be bursting with 'Brown's children' - hundreds of thousands of graduates from 'second-rate courses at third-rate universities' trying to find work.

Gordon Brown's government is being "buried by an avalanche of job losses", says Jeff Randall in The Daily Telegraph. In the three months to June, 220,000 jobs were lost, bringing the jobless total to 2,435,000, or 7.8%. Over one million of those are 'Neets' those 'not in education, employment or training'. And that's before taking into account an estimated 300,000 graduates and 400,000 school leavers now trying to find work. By the time the country goes to the polls in 2010, Jobcentre Plus offices will be bursting with 'Brown's children', many of whom "borrowed a fortune to attend second-rate courses at third-rate universities".

Gordon Brown likes to blame the global recession, says Leo McKinstry in the Daily Express. But Labour's policies are directly responsible for this "shameful betrayal of the young". Educational standards are a "national disgrace" in spite of an unprecedented flood of taxpayers' money into schools.

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