Posted, April 30, 2009 @ 13:00
Commenting on a report by EU body Eurofound, which showed the UK has suffered the largest "announced" job losses of any EU country, Timothy Kirkhope MEP, Conservative leader in the European Parliament, said:
"These grim unemployment figures will come as little surprise given that Labour closed a job centre every week in 2008.
"To make matters worse the government will cut help for long term unemployed this summer. We need real help to enable the unemployed to up skill, and tax breaks for companies that create jobs. So far, the unemployed have received nothing short of a brush-off from this government.
"Labour has spun that it is helping the unemployed whilst simultaneously cutting employment programmes. Quite clearly Labour isn't working again."