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[url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17113209What Nick Clegg really thinks of the young unemployed[/url



30 seconds in: "every 18-24 year old c*nt"

He really does say that!

Oh dear!

Clegg's playing the game that we used to when I was doing my student job, one of us would pick a word, and you had to fit it in when talking to the next customer that asked you a question, usually it was "c-t" or "pussy" or "gash" or some other euphemism, and if you put it in the sentence deadpan like Clegg did there and don't react, the person you're talking to doesn't register.

Rather than ponder over whether Clegg did or didn't use the c-word intentionally or otherwise (not in my opinion) I think we are all missing the major point which is wrapped up in the current youth unemployment debate/new initiative, and that is the presentation of the nations 16 to 24 years olds as being idle scroungers who just sit around all day watching TV.



In the same way that the disabled do, idle scroungers sitting around watching TV all day, etc, etc...



The truth is of course that there are very few job opportunities for school leavers of any age or qualification and the window of opportunity to be taken on by an employer and not cast adrift on a scrapheap of unemployability is very narrow, I consider my two 18-24 year olds to be very lucky to be in full time work but I am not so quick to condemn all young people as being unemployable, lazy scroungers, just kids in the wrong place in the wrong era.

I did think something similar at the time, but I was too busy sing about him dropping the c-bomb to make any serious comment.

+28.000. Call me and Gideons private sector job creation policies seem to be going well.

"its a price worth paying" (again)

It's only really hitting part-time women workers badly – and we all know it's just pin money for them ...

Just as Labour told the Tories it would.

If you want to talk about economic gloom - did anyone see Newsnight last night?