Uk "official measure" of unemployment to rise to 8% by 2009

[sasguru]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7774032.stm

So in reality, counting income support and people on incapacity, we're talking more than 10%.

[Mich the Tester]

I thought SuperGordon had ended boom and bust?

[BrilloPad]

So to pay for all these benefits, and the bailout, we will just print money?

Sorted.....

[BrilloPad]

I thought SuperGordon had ended boom and bust?

He was 50% right......

[Purple Dalek]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7774032.stm

So in reality, counting income support and people on incapacity, we're talking more than 10%.

What cobblers. They'll just redefine what 'unemployed' means, as they've done numerous times since coming to power.

We'll have full employment in no time.

[PM-Junkie]

Anyone see that muppet of a work and pensions secretary on the goggle-box this morning claiming that unemployment was currently "less than a million" and there were "over half a million vacancies"?

I wonder what these idiots are smoking...