Labour candidate backs apprenticeships
3:01pm Tuesday 13th May 2008
LABOUR'S candidate in the Crewe and Nantwich by-election Tamsin Dunwoody has pledged her support for apprenticeships Currently one in 15 of young people in England take up an apprenticeship and Labour members said they hope to see that increase to one in five.
In Crewe that would mean 400 young people a year being trained in vital skills that will help them get jobs.
Together with John Denham, Labour's secretary of state for innovation, universities and skills, Mrs Dunwoody met local apprentices at South Cheshire College.
She said: "Like my mum, I want to see young people in Crewe and Nantwich prosper.
"The apprentices I met today have a bright future ahead of them.
"I will fight to ensure that at least one in five young people in Crewe and Nantwich are given this life changing opportunity.
"For our area that will mean 400 young people being able to take up a quality apprenticeship every year.
"I know that businesses in Crewe are already reaping the rewards of training apprentices.
"Government gives financial support to companies which take on apprentices and the business gets an extra skilled pair of hands to help them prosper.
"I promise people here that I will do my bit to ensure that local employers offer more opportunities for local young people to get a job and get on."
John Denham added: "I'm delighted to support Tamsin Dunwoody's campaign and have seen her determination to support the employers and young people of Crewe to make the most of our investment in apprenticeships.
"Just like her mum, she wants to stand up for the people of Crewe and Nantwich.
"Labour has invested to help the people of Crewe get the skills they need to get on in work and to build better lives for themselves and their families."
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David.Gorton, West Mids says...
7:51pm Tue 13 May 08
robert, United Kingdom says...
8:00pm Tue 13 May 08
labour will not recieve any votes from my family even though we were all party members at one point.
Thank god not any more.
robert, United Kingdom says...
8:00pm Tue 13 May 08
labour will not recieve any votes from my family even though we were all party members at one point.
Thank god not any more.
John Pickworth, Northwest says...
6:41am Wed 14 May 08
Dunwoody's teenaged party workers dressing up as 'hoodies' in a failed attempt to 'mug' the leader of the opposition on Monday. Yeah right, just the sort of youth policies Crewe needs right now!
John Pickworth, Northwest says...
6:41am Wed 14 May 08
Dunwoody's teenaged party workers dressing up as 'hoodies' in a failed attempt to 'mug' the leader of the opposition on Monday. Yeah right, just the sort of youth policies Crewe needs right now!
M.H, South Coast says...
7:04pm Wed 14 May 08
Rather than trying, as the Conservative candidate is, to engage with local people and local issues, the so-obviously-false Dunwoody is devoting her time to dresing her supporters up in school blazers or in hoodies to make some kind of pathetic personal attack on Edward Timpson.
Is she serious? Does she really think that by doing this and trading off her mother's name she actually deserves to sit in the House of Commons?
The problem is of course that Labour simply have nothing to say to people in Crewe: After 11 years of Labour, if they were going to make life better for local people in Crewe they would have done so by now.
Modern apprenticeships have been around for years and have clearly not addressed the issue of youth unemployment and have totally failed to tackle the skills gap as they are far too academic and do not give trainees enough practical experience.
The Liberal Democrats seem to be nowhere in this by-election campaign. There is only one sensible alternative to the discredited Labour government and that is to vote Conservative.
At least David Cameron has bothered to visit the constituency, which is more than can be said for Brown. If he can't even be bothered with the people of Crewe when there's a by election on, he certaily won't care afterwards. Does he and his Party therefore deserve to receive even a single vote?
M.H, South Coast says...
7:04pm Wed 14 May 08
Rather than trying, as the Conservative candidate is, to engage with local people and local issues, the so-obviously-false Dunwoody is devoting her time to dresing her supporters up in school blazers or in hoodies to make some kind of pathetic personal attack on Edward Timpson.
Is she serious? Does she really think that by doing this and trading off her mother's name she actually deserves to sit in the House of Commons?
The problem is of course that Labour simply have nothing to say to people in Crewe: After 11 years of Labour, if they were going to make life better for local people in Crewe they would have done so by now.
Modern apprenticeships have been around for years and have clearly not addressed the issue of youth unemployment and have totally failed to tackle the skills gap as they are far too academic and do not give trainees enough practical experience.
The Liberal Democrats seem to be nowhere in this by-election campaign. There is only one sensible alternative to the discredited Labour government and that is to vote Conservative.
At least David Cameron has bothered to visit the constituency, which is more than can be said for Brown. If he can't even be bothered with the people of Crewe when there's a by election on, he certaily won't care afterwards. Does he and his Party therefore deserve to receive even a single vote?
Charles Taylor, Bristol (exCrewe) says...
8:01pm Thu 15 May 08
Perhaps she will say where all these jobs are in the area.
No longer a major engineering or railway centre oportunities arelimitd. Still - I suppose some jobs in the warehouses of Weston Lane
Charles Taylor, Bristol (exCrewe) says...
8:01pm Thu 15 May 08
Perhaps she will say where all these jobs are in the area.
No longer a major engineering or railway centre oportunities arelimitd. Still - I suppose some jobs in the warehouses of Weston Lane
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CAMPAIGN TRAIL: MP John Denham and Labour candidate Tamsin Dunwoody with politics students Simon Field and Hannah Storey.
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David.Gorton, West Mids says...
7:51pm Tue 13 May 08