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Yet another Eton ploncker,typical of right wingers who are totally oblivious of life on the other side....
Courtesy Telegraph......
Bright young things with nowhere to shine
No 'grit'? After drawing fire from a top Tory, graduates frustrated by a lack of career opportunities
know who is to blame
Sophie Bradford is still trying to find a job after graduating last summer
His CV is so slick it practically slips off the table into a scented Smythson envelope and posts itself
First Class to a select number of willing employers.
Eton, Oxford (membership of the Bullingdon Club inlcuded), banking, then, in 2005, election as the fourth
successive generation of his family to serve as a Tory MP. For Nick Hurd, minister for civil society
and son of former Foreign Secretary Lord Hurd, life has been a smooth journey up the career ladder.
But this week he warned that young people no longer have the tenacity to follow suit.
As figures reveal that more than a million 16 to 24-year-olds are not in work, and half never have been,
Hurd says he believes young people aren't getting jobs because they lack the required confidence,
self-control and grit. He also criticised schools for focusing solely on education and ignoring the social
skills sought by employers.
Some business leaders from the CBI and Federation of Small Businesses have since appeared to
back his comments. But many of those million-plus young people not in education, employment or
training (Neets) are not simply lazing goggle-eyed and hopeless behind games consoles. Instead,
they have won places at top universities, graduated with good degrees - and then stalled.
The Treasury may have heralded news yesterday of a revised 0.1 per cent rise in growth by claiming
that Britain is "moving from rescue to recovery". But for many top graduates fighting to get into a career,
meaningful paid work has simply dried up.
