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[MrMark]

I didn't start working until the Thatcher era. I've had two short(ish) periods on unemployment - 6 months under Thatcher and 4 during the Major government's masterful handling of the economy.

I've had almost the opposite experience - in the 80s and 90s I was always able to find work within a few weeks. It's only in the last 7 so-called "boom years" that I've had several months without work, on more than one occasion. Of course, once you start getting "gaps" on the cv it becomes very hard to even get a job interview (at least for permie positions - which is why I now do contracting jobs, when available).

[DimPrawn]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8076716.stm

House prices in the capital rose by 1.4% in April, according to the Land Registry's figures, taking the average house price in London to £302,411.

Other regions to see a bounce in prices that month were the East and West Midlands, the Eastern region, Wales and the South East.


Recession?

[HairyArsedBloke]

There was someone on telly the other day who said that the house price rises were the result of a shortage of supply as vendors didn't want to sell into such a weak market.

[Doggy Styles]

I didn't start working until the Thatcher era. I've had two short(ish) periods on unemployment - 6 months under Thatcher and 4 during the Major government's masterful handling of the economy.

I had an eight month period on the dole under Thatcher, after the tories canned a big, uneconomic project.

I'd been at the same big firm since I left college, in a so-called job-for-life, so for the first time I had to learn new skills and how to go out and find work. That redundancy was the best thing that happened to me.

I had a three month gap under Major, and a couple of two monthers under Blair. And I expect to have more bench-warming under Brown, if he lasts long enough, and Cameron.

[DimPrawn]

Boomed

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/p...ee-months.html

[TimberWolf]

Are people buying houses people with houses?

[Cyberman]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8076716.stm

House prices in the capital rose by 1.4% in April, according to the Land Registry's figures, taking the average house price in London to £302,411.

Other regions to see a bounce in prices that month were the East and West Midlands, the Eastern region, Wales and the South East.


Recession?

It is mainly people/investors with cash realising that property is in fact the best investment for the long-term. This does not signal and end to the recession at all and I am still hoping for a sustained deflationary period.

[Cyberman]

I had an eight month period on the dole under Thatcher, after the tories canned a big, uneconomic project.

I'd been at the same big firm since I left college, in a so-called job-for-life, so for the first time I had to learn new skills and how to go out and find work. That redundancy was the best thing that happened to me.

I had a three month gap under Major, and a couple of two monthers under Blair. And I expect to have more bench-warming under Brown, if he lasts long enough, and Cameron.

I have only ever been out of work under New Labour and it looks like many other poor souls are going to suffer badly, especially those new to the jobs market after wasting their time at university. They've encouraged offshoring and immigration and now we are all reaping the 'rewards' for the past 12 years of this ridiculous policy.

[sasguru]

I have only ever been out of work under New Labour ..:

The fact that you couldn't coin it under the biggest boom in British history (fake or otherwise) says more about you than about Labour.
And if the Tories come in I don't suppose they'll announce a "Back to work for Twunts" scheme, do you?

[DodgyAgent]

I have only ever been out of work under New Labour

So you are a Tory MP