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Gordon Brown will tomorrow make a speech on behalf of the world's young and unemployed.
Gordon Brown will tomorrow make a speech on behalf of the world's young and unemployed.
Gordon Brown will warn on Thursday that the world faces youth unemployment of "epidemic proportions", as he urges joint action by the G20 group of developed and developing nations to tackle rising joblessness.
During a speech in London, the former prime minister will call for Barack Obama to take the lead in boosting education, training and job opportunities for the 81 million people under the age of 25 who are currently without work.
"Unemployment is an international timebomb for both developed and developing worlds," Brown will say in the Ted Kennedy/John Harvard memorial lecture.
With some labour market analysts predicting that under-25 joblessness in the UK will edge closer to the 1 million level in today's figures, the former prime minister will say: "The world faces global youth unemployment of epidemic proportions."
Brown will add: "It becomes an even bigger problem if, as I suspect, the numbers of young people denied education - which had been falling until last year - start to rise and go above 70 million in the years to 2015."
Brown will also say that the G20 will have to make action on youth unemployment a major issue when it meets in the summer.
"The world needs to ensure that young people are not the biggest victims of the global crisis and to ensure that they are not much worse off than their parents," he will add.
"The G20 can take a lead. I am pro-American and the leadership President Obama wants to give the world in fighting youth unemployment is of vital importance."
He says "Unemployment is an international timebomb for both developed and developing worlds," So is this quip to suggest that the worlds unemployed are going to turn to "unemployment syndrome terrorism"?
Next "The world faces global youth unemployment of epidemic proportions." But no doubt Big Pharma will produce the "unemployment syndrome vaccines" to that problem.
Then - "It becomes an even bigger problem if, as I suspect, the numbers of young people denied education" - on the grounds that having too many intelligent beings will upset the "psycho cart" and anyway there are just not the jobs available unless they make more cops out of them so that they can go round beatin shit out of all and anyone accusin the "uneducated/unemployed" as would be urban guerillas or turn them into the fabulous STA technicians who love to get their hands on a good crotch or handful of melons:
Finally - "The world needs to ensure that young people are not the biggest victims of the global crisis" -just victims ,huh? And the bigger victims? for whom is that being saved for? Perhaps - "to ensure that they are not much worse off than their parents," - that is a relevant truth - he admits that their parents are worse off, are going to be worse off.
It is truly amazing the mental illness level of politicians these days and one notes, always as a result of being prime ministers & presidents.