The Future for Young People

I would like to endorse the views from cleggycornwall, regarding young people. I used to work in a Further Education college down here, and I was dismayed by the number of students who told me that they felt that they would have to leave Cornwall, to find a full time job that would pay them a fair salary. One of them said " selling ice cream to tourists is not my idea of a career, I'll have better opportunities up country." So providing people with the necessary skills to make a decent living, is surely the only way to prevent them from leaving the county.

Without a large investment in training, involving the education sector, employers, and government, this simply can not happen. In fact we seem to be going backwards at the moment, since one of the largest training providers - Cornwall College, has been on the verge of bankruptcy for the last few years and has resorted to selling off one of its sites to stay afloat.

I welcome this forum as a means of exchanging ideas, but we need to go further and lobby our local MP's and councillors; otherwise this will just become a talking shop without any influence. Will anybody in power actually read these posts? If so, perhaps they will do something about those tax dodging second-home owners.