Youth unemployment in the United Kingdom climbed to just under one million by the end of 2025, with new Office for National Statistics (ONS) data showing a rise in young people aged 16 to 24 who are not in employment, education or training.
The increase follows recent rises in employer costs linked to higher National Living Wage rates and National Insurance contributions introduced in the 2024 Budget, which business groups say have made hiring younger workers more difficult.
The number of young people actively seeking work grew during the final quarter of the year, pushing unemployment higher even as economic inactivity declined.
Analysts warn the situation could worsen as hundreds of thousands of graduates enter an already constrained labour market, with experts cautioning that prolonged joblessness among young people risks long-term financial and social consequences if employment opportunities fail to expand.
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The West has fallen.
This does not mention the elephant in the room:
UK-born youth are being outpaced by non-EU migrants in the job market.
While under-25 employment fell overall between 2020 and 2024, non-EU migrant youth on payrolls surged by 315%, gaining 258,000 jobs. In contrast, UK-born youth saw declining employment, with employers increasingly favouring younger, cheeper, more mobile migrant workers.
The ‘social’ system (the road to serfdom) uses generous welfare benefits to disincentivise UK-born youth from entering work, all paid for by pubic debt. Non-EU migrants, often more willing to accept lower-pay, flood the market.
This shift highlights a growing divide: young migrants are taking the jobs, young Britons are not.
https://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/newsroom/british-youth-in-crisis-as-nearly-1-million-not-in-work-or-training
Free-trade agreement with India anyone?
The beehive is selling us out.
Raj et al will buy the business and only employ his own. White kids will be ignored.
They are already.
Try Whitie find a job in an indian business
“Record youth unemployment” ? When you’ve got your face jammed tight into a flashing beeping horsesh*t phone screen during every waking clueless blinkered unaware sheltered little dream-land minute of your life – is any f*cker out there surprised at all?
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