Glasgow North East, Conservatives: Getting Glasgow Back to Work
Perhaps the biggest theme of the campaign has been how many people have come to me worried about Labour’s jobs crisis. There are 4,212 people in the constituency who have to claim unemployment benefit. That’s up nearly a thousand (989) in just a year and gives Glasgow North East the highest claimant rate in Scotland. That’s Labour’s legacy to Glasgow, unemployment and a jobs crisis.
Labour’s record in Glasgow shows a worrying complacency. Labour closed one Job Centre in Glasgow North East and replaced much of the face-to-face contact in the other with a mere telephone helpline. That isn’t going to help people get jobs. Labour have claimed in this by-election that they care about getting people back into work – but their actions in government don’t back that up. Broken promises and a broken economy, that’s all we get from Labour.
The Conservatives are different. We want to help people get into work because we realise how important jobs are for people. The Conservatives have the policies to bring new jobs, help the unemployed retrain, and tackle Labour’s debt mountain that threatens to hamper investment.
So we will provide tax breaks for new companies who provide new jobs. We will free up credit to help businesses. And we have a radical welfare plan that will help people who are out of work to get back into employment by providing the individual support they need, as well as providing incentives for providers who can help those in the most difficult circumstances get back into work.
This sounds like a tough message – as if we are forcing people to work. But in reality there is nothing compassionate about the current situation where people are left isolated outside society. We need to integrate people into work, support them, and help them. Most people don’t want to be on benefits, but the current system forces them there and then abandons them. That’s not progressive, and it’s not what the people of Glasgow North East need.
These are the Conservative plans to get Glasgow working again. But the only way that can happen is if you vote for the Conservatives at this by-election, and at the upcoming General Election. Only Labour or the Conservatives can become the next Government, and therefore the choice is between this failing Labour Government, or a fresh government, with real ideas to tackle the jobs crisis and recession, led by David Cameron.
Labels: Conservatives, Glasgow North East, Job centres, Ruth Davidson
posted by Ruth Davidson at
10:43
5 Comments:
As always the conservatives can be relied on to provide a tough message to those at the bottom of the chain.
'The support they need to get back into work' sounds like your going to be setting up working camps... which would entirely not surprise me!
... can you not address the real need of the people living here, ie provide a coherent approach to education! Check your election guide book and im sure it will remind you of the appauling statistics of those in GNE with any form of education.
To really get people back into work in such a time you have to address their needs, train and educate these people. where are your inovative ideas that would make you any better for this community than labour has been?
Your promise to get these people into work sounds like a tory UK wide iniative not specifically thought out strategy to help those in the local area you purport to be standing for!
I would like some more details on exactly how you are going to get people back into work. If the job market is dead then where are these ficticious jobs coming from? Having lost my job last year just as the recession started I can assure Rut Davidson that even when you want to work it's just not that easy to get a job. I've sent out hundreds of applications and I'm still looking for a job.
I agree with the last commenter; this has nothing to do with Glasgow North East. This is jsut a trial for the Tories policies for the General election.
I would like some more details on exactly how you are going to get people back into work. If the job market is dead then where are these ficticious jobs coming from? Having lost my job last year just as the recession started I can assure Rut Davidson that even when you want to work it's just not that easy to get a job. I've sent out hundreds of applications and I'm still looking for a job.
I agree with the last commenter; this has nothing to do with Glasgow North East. This is jsut a trial for the Tories policies for the General election.
An interesting headline given the Conservatives did so much to put Glaswegians out of work in the first place.
Don't like your politics but you come over as a decent and a competent type. A direct contrast to Mr Bain (by the way who is he? I don't think I know him. Does anyone?).
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