Please help

[Pete]

Please take a minute to sign this petition - Pretty please

"We the undersigned oppose Derbyshire County Council's plans to close its Youth Centres and make up to 157 Youth Workers redundant. Under the Conservative led government young people are at risk of becoming a lost generation, being the target of national and local spending cuts. Young people are facing the highest unemployment levels in decades, the trebling of tuition fees, the abolition of the Education Maintenance Allowance and in Derbyshire are having to pay more for public transport because of the b_line cuts. They now face the loss of youth services which provide access to a wide range of social and cultural activities, health advice and general support. We call on Derbyshire County Council to retain the current directly provided universal youth service."

http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/council/have_your_say/Petitions/details/default.asp?PetitionID=190

Hat tip to Andy

[Fly]

Where do I sign ;-)

[Fly]

Done and confirmed via email.

[christa]

Already signed and confirmed

[Slacker]

Tried 3 times but my name ain't appearing (unless I'm missing something) even though I've got confirmation email 3 times

[Fly]

Blame the previous gov, every body else does 

[handy]

Signed

[therealjr]

I will sign on one condition.
DCC say they have to save £100m over the next 5 years.
that's £20m a year from where I am sitting.
So tell me what else will have to close/ be cut back if they don't do this?
It's all very well to have a knee jerk reaction to one particular policy decision but it has to be seen in the context of the bigger picture.

[Slacker]

Tried 3 times but my name ain't appearing (unless I'm missing something) even though I've got confirmation email 3 times

I was missing something I didn't verify the email response. Doh!

Please make sure you do the same.

[Old Cruser]

Signed it and put it on my face book wall

[Kent]

Done

[therealjr]

Thats 7 of you signed up but no-one saying where else the savings can be made.

[Pete]

Presumably from one of the secret pots of money that are going to help the wealthy retain their child benefit and fund the new railways, etc.

Or the secret pot of money that the UK will spend when we go to war with Iran?

Or one of the secret pots of money that financed our involvement in Libya? Afghanistan? Iraq? All wasted because when we leave we will have not improved anything - although I suppose spending billions on slaughtering hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children has some justification - but it would take an American to explain that to their English bitches.

There's always some money somewhere. And lets face it, out of all the measures being implemented at the moment, how much does the government spend on young people with currently one million of them out of work.

[therealjr]

DCC don't have the secret pots of money, central government do. If central government don't hand it over (and let's face it if Tory DCC can't get it who can?) then savings have to be made.

[Pete]

You give up too easily Jon.

Your argument could be the starting point for more pressure put on central government to change their priorities.

They could crack down harder on the layabouts and spongers for a start off. They could stop having so many f*cking wars and wasting money on bollocks like the Olympics.

*ducks down and runs for cover*