Earlier this week it was announced that 2.5 million young adults have skills that are not being used because they are either unemployed or they are working in jobs for which they are overqualified. Part of the reason for this is that there are too many youngsters chasing the same jobs but also because many of them possess completely useless degrees mostly obtained in the new universities created by Blair’s New Labour Government at the turn of the century.

The idea of lowering standards so that more and more schoolkids could attend university and obtain a degree has now been proven to be the complete waste of students’ time and effort (and taxpayers money) that many experts warned of back in the late 1990’s. What is the point of obtaining a degree that cannot possibly lead to useful employment, such as a Staffordshire University degree in Sports, Media and Culture which evidently includes a study of David Beckham and his lifestyle? And what is the point of studying for a degree where there simply aren’t enough jobs to go round, for example, a Law degree?

 We now have a chronic shortage of electricians, joiners, plumbers and other tradesmen because school kids were given unrealistic expectations by the liberal clowns who taught them instead of encouraging them to spend their time training for something that could actually lead to a job.  

It’s far better to earn a wage clearing out drains than to sit at home beneath your nicely framed degree in 1960s Pop Music whilst awaiting your next welfare handout. Nobody thought to tell the kids that though, did they?