Morning Star Editorial: Starmer’s Britain and the betrayal of a generation
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/starmers-britain-and-betrayal-generation
Prime Minister Keir Starmer meets apprentices during a visit to Acton Works, a training facility in Chiswick, west London, following the publication of the interim Milburn Report into Young People and Work, May 28, 2026THE crisis of Britain’s “lost generation” of young people — alongside the unending wars of imperialism to which Starmer Labour has tied our country — is the clearest sign that that Britain’s peculiarly degenerate version of finance-dominated state monopoly capitalism offers young people little hope.
We have now several generations of young people even those with both university educations or time-served apprenticeships for whom the system can offer no guarantee of productive labour, a promising career or even the basic necessities of a civilised life.
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It is impossible to calculate the human cost of leaving a million young people on the scrapheap of a failing economy. But the economic cost has been estimated at £125 billion, which is getting on for 5 per cent of the country’s GDP.
In the past 20 years the number of young people who have never had a job rose from four in 10 to six in 10.
This is not a blip but is a systemic failure and a betrayal now of successive generations.
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Ask the question — is it conceivable that the British ruling class can be persuaded (or forced) into taking the necessary steps to transform our economy and provide a stable and productive life for everyone?
If this seems an unlikely prospect the labour movement must begin to prepare itself and the working class for the steps that need to be taken to replace this system with one of working class power, liberation and socialism.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/starmers-britain-and-betrayal-generation
