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welcome back to the david patten show it's thursday time for world view we
dennis campbell dennis is editor in chief of u_k_ progressive magazine
dennis we've been talking so much about young people in the u_s_ uh... when
talking about health care
where we've had big news today when talking about antique asian when talking
about jobs i'm interested to compare a little bit to some of the issues that
young people are having in the u_k_ talk to us a little bit about unemployment
among young people but also some of the benefits with regard to housing and
other areas that young people have in the u_k_ which are now at risk
well we've seen a significant worsening of conditions is two thousand acres of
detective cole hit a generational foundation
and they have found that just within the last two to three years the gulf between
those that are under the eight aged thirty and those that are boulder
is widening iterative between six to seven percent a year
the put that in perspective for the use two thousand two thousand eight
that gulf was only about uh... two percent
and part of the problem is right now is that we have prime minister and tory
party which is very much similar to your g_o_p_ republican party
forty bodies
that have uh... decided they're going to go on this massive austerity k
he's made and number of promises the prime minister david cameron have
to shield pensioners that is people who have already retired or collecting their
pension or social payments from any government spending because as a result
of that
this danger
generational gap
is that twenty percent girly eight percent wider in twenty ten there was a
decade for and the main factors to that argues unemployment
the rise of housing costs of very stagnant salary based
and assist stencil increase because of the recent tuition fight over the cost
of the university education
so in general youth unemployment versus the overall joblessness
in nineteen ninety we're talking maybe you were fifty percent
more likely to be unemployed than older adult
each one teach and that's not a two hundred and fifty percent more like you
to enact freinds
the amount
are likely to be jobless now so it's a very very difficult situation
what are these housing benefits that are now in question for for young people
well you know there are a number of benefits teams that are out there based
on your status as where you are
the housing benefit is something for for people who are all over and above what
they get for unemployment we would call unemployment
on top of related to the losses and that helps them from anywhere from providing
them with counsel
housing and in other words they get a flap
uh... in in housing that's owned by the council itself all that you know islands
of some sort of offset what they have to pay
under these plans it's the benefits for those that at uh... are able to work
very much like your
welfare-to-work program that you see the states that are and received
we think it is about a eighty-four of billion-dollar-a-year billed for work
old working age benefits
i want cameras to his used harding the welfare cuts
only young including this plan to eliminate this housing benefit to the
majority of those people around the twenty five
what's the consensus in the u_k_ about these these social programming in the
u_s_ and canada two very clear contingency of those
whatever way on the left to say that the government should provide some basic
level of these benefits to two different people everything from health care to
unemployment
to uh... education
and then you have kind of the reactionary right wing crowd which is
the government to do as little as possible
so on and so forth i mean the u_k_ system is different number one at the
health care system is totally different so that may actually be its
effectiveness may influence whether people are likely to be on one side of
the other of that
but what the general consensus about these types of social programs
but you always see the national health service is the crown jewel of our social
services and i really
you know we we spend roughly
uh... six to seven percent of our g_d_p_ providing health care where you are
spending eighteen to twenty percent of yours
everybody here is covered for cost we talked about this impasse programs
what you see happening now is that
the government has declared that they're going to cut ten billion
power owns
uh... that's about fifteen sixteen billion dollars
out of the total cost of the welfare budget
but that's a where they're going to do it that come up with this efficiency
scheme where they're going to
how universal
uh... care benefit which actually makes some sense into you start to dig down
and look and see
the only people that are really being beneficiary as of this
all consultants the icy creators of the people there actually putting the system
together
it's so far behind schedule it's so far over budget
the government finally admitted earlier this week
that's going to end up costing money versus savings money is all part of this
whole austerity cake
uh... one of your professors of lawrence uh... copper call for boston university
one of the effects of all these policies on young people excited about the fiscal
child abuse
if you look at what we're seeing happening here week after week after we
we have another
new government crackdown another new tests
and in the real world the arab because a lot of work but if this is up almost
five billion pounds espy billion dollars
housing benefit is up almost four million pounds
and the work program is failing
and is multibillion com universal credits the in is running late no budget
so it's not helping to save anything at all it's ideological in nature the
sacred cows that will not be cut other pensioners
the way the system is going to work
real quick last thing i want to be curious about is within the u_s_ you see
when people
you get to that college aged just having graduated college often they tend to
move to more urban areas uh... maybe not for like the temporarily and there's
this kind of drawn to those areas
i'm curious
uh... people who go to school initially in the u_k_ is there a tendency to go
to other countries once you've either if you're not going to college graduated
from secondary education
or maybe after college do they tend to work move to
other video to cities within the u_k_ or are you seeing migration to other
countries in europe altogether
i asked your crushes yes a bit of both
uh... what we see happening is that you know there is a very strong laura places
like the united states and
a lot of the growing economies of over in the warrant
of the most part what we're seeing happening is receiving regional
differences of difficulties
so if you're in a a relatively poor countries such as i am in wales
within only three million people to begin with
it was a a country that was built on the back of coal miners
and and and
that industry has dried up and local government has done nothing to replace
it
you see a brain drain not necessarily to other places other than to lost cities
like london manchester birmingham edinburgh
with this are perceived to be greater opportunities so yes we do have a bit of
a brain drain that is happening
the the metropolitan areas remain quite vibrant and so
hopefully it'll continue to grow
alright dennis campbell editor in chief of u_k_ progressive magazine check out
his in book series on the *** warriors and also the booking agent
unshackled great as always to talk to you that
saya excited here see you next week
okay we'll take a break and be back with plenty more after this