ed miliband. [shouting] >> mr. speaker, mr. speaker, the prime minister told us that unemployment would fall in each year of this parliament. today, unemployment rose for the sixth month in a row. does he think it has anything to do with his government? >> the government takes absolute responsibly for everything happens in our economy, and i take responsibility for that. [shouting] look, any increase in unemployment is disappointing and it's a tragedy for the person who becomes undeployed and can lead to real difficulty for that family and that is what we're taking so much action to try to help people to get back into work. if you look at the figures today, i think it is noteworthy that while the increase in unemployment is usually unwelcome there is still an increase in the number of people employed, another 18,000 people. what that shows is that we need more private sector employment. we need to move further and fast on that agenda. it's also noteworthy to note that there is a small decrease in long-term unemploy

ed miliband. [shouting] >> mr. speaker, mr. speaker, we are 18 months into his government. and today's figures show our economy is not growing. is shrinking. what's gone wrong with his economic plan? >> these are extremely difficult economic times. these are disappointing figures. they are not unexpected figures. they are the opposite of budget responsibility forecast at the end of last year. but i'll be frank with honorable gentleman i think the reflect three things. they reflect the overhang of the debt and the deficit that we have to dea with -- [shouting] the reflect the igher food and fuel price that put the squeeze on household income for the end of last year and yet they also reflect the crisis in the euro zone that has frozen europe's economies. the forecast for germany, for spain, for italy come for the end of last year, forecast had greater decline or in many cases a greater decline. this is the year we have to take further action to get our economy moving. with the most important thing to have a credible

ed miliband. [shouting] >> mr. speaker, mr. speaker, we are 18 months into his government. and today's figures show our economy is not growing. is shrinking. what's gone wrong with his economic plan? >> these are extremely difficult economic times. these are disappointing figures. they are not unexpected figures. they are the opposite of budget responsibility forecast at the end of last year. but i'll be frank with honorable gentleman i think the reflect three things. they reflect the overhang of the debt and the deficit that we have to deal with -- [shouting] the reflect the higher food and fuel price that put the squeeze on household income for the end of last year and yet they also reflect the crisis in the euro zone that has frozen europe's economies. the forecast for germany, for spain, for italy come for the end of last year, forecast had greater decline or in many cases a greater decline. this is the year we have to take further action to get our economy moving. with the most important thing to have a credib

. >> ed miliband. >> mr. speaker, doesn't apprenticed understand when he boasts about rising employment it just shows how out of touch he is? and in some parts of london, and in some parts of london, 100 people are chasing three vacancies. that is the situation people are facing. can he confirm that under his policies, far from things getting better over the coming year, he expects things to get worse and unemployment to rise to 2.8 million? >> forecasts are no longer set out by the government. they are set out by the independent office of budget responsibly. and unlike in his day, these forecasts are not fixed and fiddled by ministers. they are set out by independent economists. what the government's responsibility is is to do everything we can't allow people into work. that's what we have the work program that is helping 3 million people, that is why we have the youth contract that is going to get subsidize private sector jobs for 160,000 young people. that is why we have work experience for 250,000 young p

. >> ed miliband. [shouting] >> mr. speaker, can i joi the prime minister in paying tribute to captain tom jennings from the royal marines, squadron leader anthony downing from the royal air force, rather john king from first battalion, the yorkshire regiment, and riflemen from fourth, third battalion the royal rifles. all of them showed enormous courage and bravery at making sacrifices on our behalf, and our deepest condolences go to their family and friends. >> here, here. >> the chancellor said in the opening state of the drinkers would onlyrise by 1% of inflation. and he therefore explained while rail companies this month some of these amateur roots have increased their fares by 11%? >> the power was given to them to do that by the last labour government. [laughter] >> ed miliband. >> know, mr. speaker. no. no, mr. speaker, no mr. speaker. the prime minister is wrong. the last, the last labour government stopped them from doing that and there's prime minister, and this prime minister when he came to office reversed

. >> ed miliband. [shouting] >> mr. speaker, can i join the prime minister in paying tribute to captain tom jennings from the royal marines, squadron leader anthony downing from the royal air force, rather john king from first battalion, the yorkshire regiment, and riflemen from fourth, third battalion the royal rifles. all of them showed enormous courage and bravery at making sacrifices on our behalf, and our deepest condolences go to their family and friends. >> here, here. >> the chancellor said in the opening state of the drinkers would only rise by 1% of inflation. and he therefore explained while rail companies this month some of these amateur roots have increased their fares by 11%? >> the power was given to them to do that by the last labour government. [laughter] >> ed miliband. >> know, mr. speaker. no. no, mr. speaker, no mr. speaker. the prime minister is wrong. the last, the last labour government stopped them from doing that and there's prime minister, and this prime minister when he came to office reverse

. >> ed miliband. >> mr. speaker, can i join the prime minister in paying tribute to the royal marines, the squad leader, from the royal air force, and the private from the first battalion, and the rifleman. all of them showed enormous courage and bravery. they are making sacrifices on our behalf, and our deepest condolences to their family and friends. mr. speaker, it said in the autumn statement that train fares will only rise by 1% above inflation. can he explain why the rail companies this month on some of the busiest commuter routes have increased their fisa by up to 11%? >> the power was given them to do that by the last labor government -- labour government. >> ed miliband. >> no, mr. speaker. no, mr. speaker. the last labour government stopped them from doing that. this minister when it came to office reversed that policy. that is why, that is why the companies are not able to do that. that is why someone traveling from northampton to london when see a rise of over 300 pounds. will he stand up for tra

ed miliband. praxair know he does not want to talk about the young people out of work in this country because he is embarrassed by his record on what is happening, but he owes it to them to tell the facts about what is happening to them. i come back to this point. the prime minister said long term unemployment among young people is going down. it is not going down. it is going up. he mentions the work program. we introduced a work program in june. what happened to long-term use unemployment since he introduced his work program? >> let me give you the figures exactly. there are far too many young people who are long-term unemployed. there are 246,000 young people unemployed for over a year, but that is now 11,000 on the last quarter. that is not enough. we want to do more, but it is because we have got the work program, because we have the use project, because we have the 250,000 people going into work experience, we are making a difference. why doesn't he come up with something constructive instea

. >> ed miliband. [shouting] >> mr.speaker, can i join the prime minister in paying tribute to captain tom jennings from the royal marines, squadron leader anthony downing from the royal air force, rather john king from first battalion, the yorkshire regiment, and riflemen from fourth, third battalion the royal rifles. all of them showed enormous courage and bravery at making sacrifices on our behalf, and our deepest condolences go to their family and friends. >> here, here. >> the chancellor said in the opening state of the drinkers would only rise by 1% of inflation. and he therefore explained while rail companies this month some of these amateur roots have increased their fares by 11%? >> the power was given to them to do that by the last labour government. [laughter] >> ed miliband. >> know, mr. speaker. no. no, mr. speaker, no mr. speaker. the prime minister is wrong. the last, the last labour government stopped them from doing that and there's prime minister, and this prime minister when he came to office reversed

and he came to the view that there should be talks, and he persuaded david miliband who is former foreign secretary to make that speech in march 2010 in mit what he actually said, using the northern ireland analogy, sometimes you have to start talking to the people who are shooting at you, and there's no other way. however, pace may be. and i think at the time the speech was completely ignored in washington, the state department can pick it up at all. and, of course, the government fell, new government in britain. i don't know why mark said, i know cooper quite well. he used to be rather gung ho, so it is not change maybe has come to the same sort of you that it is hopeless. in some ways the british, military are more keen to stay there than the u.s. military because the former head of the army after iraq, very -- defense cuts, and he told, in his book, you know, it's a question of use them and not listen to it i suppose if we don't send our troops to afghanistan they will just because. the defense budget would cut and we won't have any true. it's complete cynical, complete line. if you s

and david miliband didn't like this but mr. cameron did. what we began to realize -- there's a political shift going on here. it's a generational shift. young people under the age of 30 do not think right/left. they don't think about ideology. it's not even part of their vocabulary and radar screen. when a young person in the internet generation judges institutional behavior, they judge it among a different spectrum. is this instructional behavior centralized, top-down, pate rearkal, closed or solitary or is it distributed, collaborative, transport and open? that's what's going on in the arab spring with the young google generation. that's what's going on in wall street right now with thezations there. that's what's going on all over the world. we are seeing a sea change in the political landscape from centralized to distributed and from top-down to laterally power. the third industrial revolution changes the political and cultural landscape fundamentally. it scales differently. let me give you one example of how the business model changes

>> david cameron and miliband battling the prime minister's questions. many prime minister questions is the highlight of the parliamentary week and they celebrated its 50th anniversary. keeping it legal brought together three politicians who know best about the headline making half hour. michael howard was before david cameron the leader of the conservative party. charles kennedy led the lib dems for six years and david hanson was the parliamentary aide to tony blair. so, what did they make of the mq? did they love it or loathe it? >> i think people are very interested. i'm not sure but i think people are interested in it. i think it encapsulates the big issues of the day. if you're interested in politics and you want a quick take on what's important and what is the big issue of the day, the prime minister's questions will give that's you and i think that it does, it's important -- its importance can be exaggerated but it can also be dismissed. it is important in terms of morale of backbenchers and it's important in terms of establishing the public eye s

at the polls and think, i'm slightly ahead of labour in a moment in a one in one contest with ed milibandnd so david cameron, if anyone, would be the one who provokes that second election. but even then i don't think it's likely. i think what we're going to see is a five-year coalition and although i would have -- what we're going to see is a five-year coalition, i would have been 80% certain of that few weeks ago. i may only be 60% of that certain now but it's still more likely than the breakdown of the government then. >> what's the big cloud on the horizon that's coming up in 2012? >> well, the huge external event which is possible if not probable is a breakdown of the eurozone itself. you could end up in a situation where at least greece if not more countries than that fall out of the eurozone. if that happens then the accord which is agreed in brussels earlier this month would almost certainly fall apart with it, at which point suddenly david cameron's veto, a, looks moot and, b, maybe even slightly looks prescient he could gain another political windfall which stayed out of the trea