Another day another empty brown promise.

On Sunday 100,000 jobs were to be created by the PM, today Its 35,000 apprenticeships.

These are empty promises, Lord Allesley has failed today to find anyone who finds them credible. There is no real measure for sucess, also a feeling that as with government investment, the same number job is counted several times over and re announced and re announced.

The country and business faces a credit crisis, money is not flowing, this is effecting investment spending confidence etc etc. LA does not recall anyone in the last 3 months or so saying "We need more apprentices you know!". We need the markets to begin to move again, that is the important job.

Having tried to analyze todays smoke and mirrors statement on apprentices, LA sees this as a Government initiative not a Business led one, that means whatever apprenticeships that are created(funded) will be dictated by government on their terms, those that the education sector can deliver, rather than those business need and want.

So more waste to come, no realization of the real world and more spin than sense. Who said the Pantomime season was over?

LA