What A Snowflake Generation Means In Reality

Young people must "earn or learn" or face having their benefits cut, under government plans to get them back into work and grow the economy.

I recall the backlash when the last government annouced this. Yet there's been little outrage from the usual suspects this time around. Isn't that strange? 

Official figures suggest nearly a million young people were out of education, employment or training between July and September. Job centres and mental health support will get more funding to help people into work, the government has said.

However, business leaders have said rises in employer National Insurance contributions and minimum wages will leave them less money to create new jobs. The BBC has spoken to young people yet to enter the workforce, as well as those with different reasons for leaving it.

Which was quite brave of them, but I don't think they realised what they were going to say... 

Hassan, 20, from Birmingham, finished his A levels in 2022 and has been out of work ever since. “This year has been kind of a constant struggle. I want to get a job but how do I get a job? And how do I write the right CV? And how do I apply for things?” He is receiving help with these struggles from the King's Trust.

This is a product of our education system? 

Hassan missed out on sitting his GCSE exams because of the Covid pandemic and said sitting formal exams for the first time at 18 was "overwhelming". “I realised what I had been calling 'stress' for many years was actually anxiety. I had been carrying it with me for so long," he said. “There’s a lot of talk these days about mental health. But a lot of people think it’s overrepresented… that makes you feel uncertain about trying to identify these problems you deal with in your daily life.”

Those are just the normal vicissitudes of life. No-one's going to hand you anything on a platter, and if they told you they would, that's yet another failure of the educational system. 

Amy Wilkes, 23, from Coventry has a degree in criminology, policing and investigation but said she gets no responses when she applies for jobs. “It’s really frustrating, soul-destroying and gutting," said Amy, who has been volunteering with the witness service for over a year. “It is very hard to find a job, let alone a career,” she said.

She told the BBC her morale can get low sometimes, and that she occasionally struggles emotionally, especially as “applying for loads of jobs is draining”.

Another one who believed that if she gained a degree, plum jobs would land in her lap without any effort on her part. The fact that 'life is hard' seems not to have been imparted very well. 

But if you've got a 'disability' to fall back on... 

Kiarna, 18, from Birmingham said her struggle to find a job began at sixth form where she felt misunderstood because of her learning difficulties and mental health struggles. “I went to college... but I felt like they didn’t understand me, they would moan at me, have a go at me. They didn’t understand that for someone with learning difficulties it’s really hard to learn stuff. It takes longer to make it click in your head," she said. Kiarna said the lack of support and structure after she finished formal education had also been a barrier in finding work. She is now receiving help from the Kings Trust.

And yet, the Royals get no thanks or even recognition for providing a service to mop up the results of our educational system from the Left.