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Fab 5: Wednesday 17 February 2010

Your Fab 5 for today:

  • New unemployment figures out today, showing a slight decline in the number of people classed as unemployed. Stephanie Flanders, the BBC’s Economics editor, looks at the divide between the experience of public and private sector workers. Left Foot Forward’s Graeme Cook has also analysed the figures.
  • Sunder Katwala, The Fabian Society General Secretary, blogs at NextLeft about the decision by the folk who run the Oscars to implement an Alternate Vote system this year.
  • Lib Dem Voice fisk Shadow Environment Secretary Nick Herbert’s speech about gay rights in the US.
  • And, if you haven’t seen it, then take a look at Tim Montgomerie’s attempt to replicate the success of mydavidcameron.com with his own version attacking the Labour party – mylabourposter. Not as good as the original and, thus far, wit is scarce.

    • How Labour can make EU Policy ‘Back Young Britain’

    The recent edition of Anticipations contains an article from Catherine Stihler, one of the Labour MEPs for Scotland.

    Catherine argues that Britain must collaborate with EU states both to forge a stable recovery and to build a sustainable social market economy by 2020. The latter is the EU’s response to the Lisbon Agenda (to make the EU the most competitive and dynamic knowledge based economy by 2010).

    Vital to achieving this goal is the investment in education and skills by domestic governments to equip tomorrow’s work force with the skills for a global economy. This is the very nub of the interaction between the national and the international in policy making. Investment in the skills of its citizens by a national government will allow its workforce to compete for the high skilled jobs of a global marketplace.

    Labour has a record of a sustained investment in schools, skills, universities, research and development running hand in hand with a jobs and growth strategy that is beyond Britain’s borders to ensure we look for the jobs of tomorrow.

    We should continue this in the next election manifesto as we look beyond our borders for growth, jobs and trade. Labour should continue to make a commitment to young people to allow us to achieve our full potential in the economy of tomorrow. I believe the Backing Young Britain campaign should continue beyond the recession as a positive way of investing in our future to bring high quality jobs to Britain and allow us to compete internationally. Labour can co-ordinate our policies in Westminster and in Brussels to keep European policy working for young Britain and building for our future.

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