Updated: 16:20 GMT, 27 February 2012
Hurrah for Macdonalds. Hats off to Gregg the Bakers. Lots of other firms large and small have got involved in a Government scheme to offer work experience to unemployed youngsters with the chance for a job afterwards.
Burger King have cravenly decided to cease taking part in fear of a tiny number of Trotskyist agitprop merchants shouting slogans. But they were only involved in a small scale on a local basis. I understand that none of those who signed up on a national basis have pulled out.
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Support: Greggs has got involved in a Government scheme to offer work experience to unemployed youngsters, but the scheme has attracted growing criticism in recent weeks
Far from fizzling out, the scheme is roaring ahead. It is on track to grow from 34,000 placements a year to 100,000. This work experience scheme is voluntary. The only sanction is for those who agree to go ahead with it and then cause a nuisance by not seeing it through. But this is a tiny number - only 220 out of the 34,000 have had these sanctions. The good news is that most of the 34,000 are now in regular jobs.
So it isn't a workfare scheme. There is another scheme that is called Mandatory Work. That tends to be obliging those on the dole to take on community projects rather than being placed with private firms. It is aimed at those who have been unemployed for a long time. Half of those offered places on this scheme immediately stop drawing benefits - suggesting they are already working in the black economy.
Anyway both schemes have already proved a fantastic success. Despite a few noisy Trots and feeble businessmen they will expand.
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Not such a whopping great idea: Burger King has pulled out of the Government's work experience scheme
The Labour Party could have won some credit by urging companies to take part. Of course Labour could have made clear they had some criticisms over details. But they should have given general backing. That would have given them a chance to make a difference. Their sniping is a betrayal of the young unemployed for which the Labour Party will justly suffer at the polls in the long run.
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