Helping to lower unemployment in Loughborough
By Jonathan Sutton
Hello, my name is Jonathan Sutton and I am the recently elected Conservative Future Representative for Hathern and Dishley (which is one of the wards in the Loughborough Constituency). I personally got involved with Loughborough Conservatives about 12 months ago and have since become an integral part of Nicky Morgan’s campaign to become the next MP for Loughborough.
Nicky stood in this constituency the last time around and managed to reduced Andy Reed’s majority from 6, 378 to 1996 and with several boundary changes this majority has been reduced further. The Loughborough Conservative Team understands that we must all take David Cameron’s message of change out to the every single person in the constituency; we want to make a difference and we want to be part of the change that we believe only the Conservatives can deliver. One way in which the Loughborough Conservatives have been able to do this is to show that, in the words of David Cameron, ‘everyone is invited’ to join and get involved with the Conservatives of today, has been through us; the ever growing team of young activists in Loughborough.
It was, in part, through the hard work of the Loughborough Conservative Future team, that the difficulties faced by the unemployed were highlighted. I myself have been looking for a job since finishing college in June and have had no success to date in my job search and so I was able to add my own experiences to the mass of information that we gathered from unemployed people on this topic. The level of unemployment in Loughborough has risen an incredible 99% in Loughborough since September 2008 and so this is clearly a big problem in this constituency and the Job Centre is so badly organised, in my opinion, and so poorly managed that people like me who desperately want to find a job are just not given the help we need to help find work. We obviously have a huge university in our town which provides employers with an unlimited supply of well educated students looking for work and so for people like me who don’t even have any work experience, the job market seems to be completely out-of-bounds. It was from knocking on doors and engaging with young voters that our team was able to personify this problem.
On Saturday Nicky Morgan organised a successful Careers Workshop which was entirely free and was open to everybody and people of all ages and backgrounds turned up. Nicky used the information that we had gathered to help format the Workshop, taking care to address every area highlighted. It boasted speakers such as; Anna Soubry, PPC for Broxtowe who, as a Criminal Lawyer and former TV Journalist was able to provide guests with a great insight into confidence boosting techniques; a Life Coach who was conducted an interactive and informative session that challenged the beliefs we hold about ourselves and encouraged us to find the confidence to overcome any doubts that we may have in ourselves, a Careers Advisor who has helped hundreds of people to get back to work and was able to provide us with some outstanding advice on building CVs and covering letters; a Senior HR Advisor, from whom we gained some great advice on going to interviews and a UK Fashion Advisor for Green House, a Danish based fashion company, who was able to give us some great hints and tips on what to wear for interviews.
So on Saturday, instead of searching job sites and wondering what more I can do to secure a job, I did something useful. The event ran from 9.00am-1.00pm and after that I went home feeling rejuvenated and much more confident in my own ability to find something than I have done for a long time; and I applied for jobs, putting in to place the guidance that I was given. I now have an interview this week, the first interview since I started to apply June; it just goes to show that by opening your mouth and getting involved in politics your voice can easily be heard. I can’t tell you how happy I am, thanks Nicky!
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