The President of the NUS, Liam Burns today said that Boris Johnson was “perpetuating the myth that young people are lazy” and that he should “concentrate on helping young people and not writing them off”.
This was ion response to comments the Mayor of London made saying, many unemployed young people lacked the right attitude and energy to get a job during times of record youth unemployment.
Mr Burns said “He (Boris Johnson) is badly out of touch if he thinks it is their attitude, rather than a stagnant economy and Government decisions to scrap EMA and the Future Jobs Fund and charge older learners for doing A-Levels, that has left so many young people unable to find a job.”
The NUS president argued that comments like these hinder young people trying to find work and said that Boris Johnson “should spend some time with the thousands of young people who desperately want to work but are left on the scrap heap by politicians like him.”
Johnson is yet to comment.