Many British youngsters are too lazy, ill-educated and lacking the work ethic to compete for jobs, business leaders said last night.

The warning came in response to Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith’s appeal to employers to ‘give our young people a chance, and not fall back on labour from abroad’.

In a speech which evoked Gordon Brown’s ill-fated ‘British jobs for British workers’ campaign, Mr Duncan Smith said employers had a ‘responsibility to help our young people get their first foot on the jobs ladder’.

David Frost said that foreign workers were better skilled and have the right attitude after IDS issued a plea to business to recruit jobless British youths
But business leaders rejected the calls – and warned that many simply lack the ‘work ethic’ and skills to compete against migrant labour.

David Frost, director-general of the British Chambers of Commerce, said a generation had been ‘failed’ by schools.

‘After 11 years of formal education, employers say they get kids coming to them who can’t write, who can’t communicate, and who don’t have that work ethic,’ he said.

‘And I think we’ve also got to face up to having a benefits system which does not incentivise that many to work.



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true, but many of these so called failures in the UK live better than most PHd holders in nigeria.

^^ work ethic is the sane tho

^^^

you're right