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Star Comment: An attack on the young

ED MILIBAND’S plan to deprive tens of thousands of unemployed young people of benefits unless they achieve level 3 qualifications is despicable.

It marks a continuation of new Labour’s policy of competing with the Tories over which party can be most hard-hearted to capitalism’s victims.

The overwhelming majority of people want to earn their own livelihood.

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