Hey, unemployed young people. You got what you voted for. So, suck it up!

Sunday-Monday blog

I’ll start with a quote from BBC news:

Unemployment in the UK rose to its highest rate in nearly five years at the end of 2025, official figures show. The unemployment rate climbed to 5.2% in the three months to December, from 5.1% in the three months to November, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.

But young people are bearing the brunt, with unemployment for those aged between 16 and 24 rising to 16.1%, its highest in more than 10 years.

Apparently, this is the first time youth unemployment in Britain is above the EU average.

The BBC goes on to explain why youth unemployment has risen to record levels:

Many businesses have slowed hiring, pointing to measures in Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s last two Budgets, including a hike in employer National Insurance contributions and a rise in the minimum wage, as increasing their costs.

Labour’s response has been the usual bureaucratic nonsense:

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden said there was “more to do to get people into jobs”, with tackling youth unemployment a key government priority. He added Labour was making it easier for young people to find and secure an apprenticeship.

Dear Mr McFadden – if Labour are “making it easier for young people to find and secure an apprenticeship” why is youth unemployment shooting up and up and up?

Give it to them hard!

Satirist H. L. Mencken is quoted as saying:

Well, many young people will have voted Labour at the last election – a party that loathes Britain, hates and distrusts business, wants to crush successful people with punitive taxes, wants to bankrupt the country with massive unrepayable borrowing, wants to replace the White British population with mainly useless and often criminal benefits-scrounging Third-worlders and wants to destroy as many British companies as possible with the highest energy prices in the world.

Moreover, flame-haired rubinesque temptress Angela Rayner’s new employees rights legislation will make it too risky to hire someone. After all, if a pub landlord or retailer can be sued by their staff if they hear customers saying anything they find upsetting, who is going to risk hiring a hypersensitive, ultra-woke, tik-tok-obsessed GenZer just looking for a ‘micro-aggression’ to score a massive payout?

And, of course, the businesses which are collapsing – manufacturing, hospitality and retail – are often those where most young people get a start in their working lives.

The result – thousands of businesses closing, hundreds of thousands losing their jobs and an economy which has been in recession for months. I know the shambolic anti-British Labour government still claims the UK economy is growing. But as I have shown on a previous blog, that’s just an illusion created by Britain borrowing billions and spaffing it on huge pay rises for the public sector and generous increases in benefits for millions of skivers.

So, young people. You’re getting what you voted for and you’re getting it hard.

Enjoy!

Votes for 16- and 17-year-olds?

One of the key promises in the 2024 Labour election manifesto was to extend the voting age allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to vote. This must have seemed like an awfully good idea at the time. After all, very few young people were likely to vote for the Tories or Reform. Some might vote LibDem, but many would vote Labour thus ensuring Labour could gerrymander another election victory.

But, then came a more than minor problem – the massive rise in popularity of the Greens under the leadership of gap-toothed psychic boob-enhancer and media wonder David Paulden (who changed his name to Zack Polanski).

Labour’s strategy of lowering the voting age was to fight off any threat from the Right. But now the Greens represent a massive threat from the Left. Given this huge shift in Britain’s political landscape, will Labour still risk lowering the voting age? Or will Labour do another Starmeresque volte face and find some excuse for delaying the change?

I await the result with bated breath.

More Internet satirical genius

And to end, here’s a message from our real Prime Minister:

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