Umemployment at a 17 year high

[MarillionFan]

I have just recruited 5 Romanians

I hope you've managed to get them some council accomodation.

[DodgyAgent]

Come on Dodgy, you are the the face of private sector employment.

Get your finger out!!

I have just recruited 5 Romanians

[gingerjedi]

Quite, they should be borrowing more money and employing more people to do nothing jobs in the public sector. having indulged ourselves with our guilt trips in patronising socialism we are now faced with the Bill.

Come on Dodgy, you are the the face of private sector employment.

Get your finger out!!

[shaunbhoy]

Quite, they should be borrowing more money and employing more people to do nothing jobs in the public sector. The legacy of socialism.

Now come on DA. NL did a lot more than that in countering youth unemployment.
They lowered the academic bar sufficiently, for countless thousands of youngsters that would otherwise have joined this dole queue, to be able to get into Uni and run up prodigious levels of debt striving to attain often pointless Degrees.
Many of them don't get to join the dole queue until it dawns on them that these qualifications are largely worthless.
It had to be "fair" you see?

[DodgyAgent]

Good to see this government equalling that nice Mr Major's achievement.

Quite, they should be borrowing more money and employing more people to do nothing jobs in the public sector. having indulged ourselves with our guilt trips in patronising socialism we are now faced with the Bill.

[MarillionFan]

So unemployment for 16-24years old is now half according to the report. So if youngsters aren't getting the skills at 16-24 how does that bode for the next 5/10 years.

For P/T staff I used to hire over 60's because they were reliable and for Saturday staff 16/17 because they were cheap. As soon as they got older the minimum wage was too high for P/T w/e staff.

Tickingt timebomb here.

[PAH]

Yep, it's all done in the name of keeping house prices high.

Which has a knock on effect on rental prices also being high. Helped by the housing benefits that prop up the baseline, as it's inevitable private landlords will charge at least the minimum housing benefit rate.

BBC News - Private rents in England unaffordable, says Shelter

Private rents are now unaffordable in 55% of local authorities in England, the housing charity Shelter has said.

Just 12% of areas were affordable, it added.

Where's the other 33%?

So, you want to know why the economy is tanking, causing all these job losses?

No need to look further than cheap credit (many are maxed out on credit card and mortgage debt), high accommodation prices, high energy/food/petrol prices, and static wages. Resulting in less money to spend on everything else.

[doodab]

Is that figure using the Labour count or the new Tory count? The Tories changed the counting mechanism to show a lot more people that Labour had not been counting so the figures are bound to be higher. Easy headline for the left wing press.

That almost makes up for the dozen or so times they changed the counting mechanism when they were last in power themselves.

[gingerjedi]

Is that figure using the Labour count or the new Tory count? The Tories changed the counting mechanism to show a lot more people that Labour had not been counting so the figures are bound to be higher. Easy headline for the left wing press.

Yeah unemployment hasn't gone up, what are people complaining about?

[Arturo Bassick]

Is that figure using the Labour count or the new Tory count? The Tories changed the counting mechanism to show a lot more people that Labour had not been counting so the figures are bound to be higher. Easy headline for the left wing press.

[shaunbhoy]

As for Miliband's attempted attack, that slight lisp and Aardman look don't do him any favours.

Well spotted GJ.

[gingerjedi]

This "gotta keep on track to maintain AAA rating" mantra is getting a bit tired now as the projected growth just isn't happening, how high will unemployment go before Cameron takes his fingers out of his ears and stops chanting "la la la not listening"?

As for Miliband's attempted attack, that slight lisp and Aardman look don't do him any favours.

[TimberWolf]

We have to cut jobs to keep our AAA rating, which in turn means cheap borrowing and so high house prices and therefore more profit for BTL owners.

So it's worth it in the end.

Yep, it's all done in the name of keeping house prices high.

[DimPrawn]

We have to cut jobs to keep our AAA rating, which in turn means cheap borrowing and so high house prices and therefore more profit for BTL owners.

So it's worth it in the end.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Good to see this government equalling that nice Mr Major's achievement.