Now jobs we need are under threat

Boston apparently faces a new employment crisis after the news that the town's college has turned away seven hundred would-be students this year because of budget cuts.
Figures obtained by the BBC show that some further education colleges in England face a loss of a quarter of their adult learning budgets.
And a report on yesterday's Today programme on Radio 4 said that the situation was so acute that many more colleges like Boston say they'll have to turn hundreds of potential students away.
Courses such as construction, hairdressing, literacy, numeracy may all have to go - at a time when politicians say that the country must have the best possible skills to get the economy growing again.
A report by the BBC's Education Correspondent, Gillian Hargreaves, quoted a 53 year old woman who had sold up and moved to live in a caravan in Boston to retrain in hairdressing as an adult student. She said she wanted to turn her life around and learn a skill, but had already found it difficult because there hadn't been as much funding as there could have been. Worryingly, she may turn up on the homeless and unemployed lists.
The report went on to stress how Boston College was vital to the local economy, and as usual  for the BBC came up with some tritely damning words to sum up the town for the benefit of outsiders.
"In a place where 40 per cent of adults have no qualifications at all and where low wages and low aspirations are the norm , learning new skills - or learning any skills is vital."
"But the college is facing a 20% cut in its budget and has already turned away 700 applicants for courses."
Half of all Further Education institutions face a 16% cut in their budgets but 48 will lose a quarter, which puts Boston somewhere in between.
College Principal Sue Daley, saw what was going on as part of public sector cuts, and said that they would cope with them.
Her concern was for individuals who would not get the service that the college wants to give them, and businesses in the area who are going to find they're not going to get the same level of skilled people.
Our concern is how these cuts operate.
Boston College is famous for the number of overseas students that it enrols - most of them from China, who pay a high price to study here. We are sure that there will be no refusal of applicants from these sectors.
But who are the 700 people who have had the door slammed in their faces?
These are the people living locally, who want to drag themselves up by their bootstraps, and try to earn an honest living in the town in which they were born, and who now may have no other choice than to join the local dole queues.
We need to fight the corner for these people if Boston is to have a chance to get back on its feet.
Although £53,000 is a drop in the ocean as far as a 20% cut in budgets for Boston College is concerned, it represents the amount of government grant that Boston Borough Council plans to fritter away on its puny MY BOSTON project to wage war on unsightly empty shops which blight the town centre.
We need some joined up writing here.
We need to work out how to do what's best for Boston, rather than waste time and resources when worthwhile local people are being thrown on the scrapheap.

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