If the Conservatives win the election how high will unemployment rise?

[slimsid2000]

Gordon Brown will lose his job.

[Rupert_Baehr]

Since Parliament has been prorogued, surely he has already lost his job?

 

I wonder whether he's been down to the dole office to sign on?

 

The new batch of MPs will be elected on Thursday. They won't start work on Friday (or even on Monday.)

 

Parliament will probably re-open in mid to late November, so they should (just about) manage to get in an adequate 'summer holiday' from now until then. (They will, of course, need that holiday to get over all the hard work they've been doing trying to persuade people to elect them.)

 

If the new MPs don't start work until the second part of November, when do they start getting paid?

[RonJeremy]

There will be an increase in unemployment after the election - Gordy has wrecked the economy and made many people dependent on the state. We need to cut back a little on these non-jobs in the public sector. We need to help the private sector grow. It is SO SO SO important we get a Conservative Government to help the country back on its feet for the short, medium and long term.

[TeaFan]

There will be an increase in unemployment after the election - Gordy has wrecked the economy and made many people dependent on the state. We need to cut back a little on these non-jobs in the public sector. We need to help the private sector grow. It is SO SO SO important we get a Conservative Government to help the country back on its feet for the short, medium and long term.

 

This has been interesting me for a while: if getting rid of lots of public sector jobs is good, doesn't that mean unemployment is good? And if so, why would we want to see more jobs in the private sector? All jobs have to be paid for, either through taxation (public sector) or through buying goods or services (private sector). If we don't have the money to pay for jobs through taxation, how can we have the money to pay for jobs through buying things?

 

And if we get rid of around 250,000 - 500,000 public sector jobs, isn't that going to shrink the private sector, because you'll have a lot of people with no spending power anymore, so the market for goods and services will diminish?

[RonJeremy]

This has been interesting me for a while: if getting rid of lots of public sector jobs is good, doesn't that mean unemployment is good? And if so, why would we want to see more jobs in the private sector? All jobs have to be paid for, either through taxation (public sector) or through buying goods or services (private sector). If we don't have the money to pay for jobs through taxation, how can we have the money to pay for jobs through buying things?

 

And if we get rid of around 250,000 - 500,000 public sector jobs, isn't that going to shrink the private sector, because you'll have a lot of people with no spending power anymore, so the market for goods and services will diminish?

 

Because the productive (private) sector of the economy is efficient and drives costs down, the unproducive (public) sector is paid for by the private sector - through the natural market forces. They occur everywhere in the world, even in socialist states where they try to stamp on people in the private sector. There needs to be some public sector - but nothing like as muchas we have now.

[Rupert_Baehr]

... If we don't have the money to pay for jobs through taxation, how can we have the money to pay for jobs through buying things?

 

And if we get rid of around 250,000 - 500,000 public sector jobs, isn't that going to shrink the private sector, because you'll have a lot of people with no spending power anymore, so the market for goods and services will diminish?

 

If you make things and sell them (even export them [novel idea]) you make money. If the manufacturer makes money he can pay money (tax) to the government (as well as paying employees, who also pay tax to the government) and the government can use the money it receives to pay people to provide services (the public sector.) Then those people can buy things.

 

This government has been telling people to 'spend their way out of the recession' (by borrowing money and increasing their personal indebtedness) and borrows money to pay people who work in the public sector (providing those services which the community desires and needs) because there are too few people actually producing wealth (making things or growing things) to provide funds for the government.

[Longcol]

If you make things and sell them (even export them [novel idea]) you make money. If the manufacturer makes money he can pay money (tax) to the government (as well as paying employees, who also pay tax to the government) and the government can use the money it receives to pay people to provide services (the public sector.) Then those people can buy things.

 

 

And they mainly buy them from other parts of the private sector - supermarkets, insurance companies, department stores, the local pub - taxation mainly keeps money flowing within the system and is pretty efficient way of organising things. Too many people think government taxation / spending has made money disappear rather than keeping it in circulation.

[wednesday1]

There will be an increase in unemployment after the election - Gordy has wrecked the economy and made many people dependent on the state. We need to cut back a little on these non-jobs in the public sector. We need to help the private sector grow. It is SO SO SO important we get a Conservative Government to help the country back on its feet for the short, medium and long term.

 

We need both a thriving public sector and a thriving private sector, the latter which funds the public sector. But with the Tories promising the cuts as quickly as they are doing will put both at risk and put us into a Japan style deflationary cycle.

[eastbank]

the more people that lose their jobs may be a wake up call to rid this country of all the illegals and bogus students and asylum seekers...and the eu migrants might head back to eastern europe and we can all live happily ever after...and not wake up to some stinking vietnamese cannabis factory....

[Grandad.Malky]

We need to help the private sector grow. It is SO SO SO important we get a Conservative Government to help the country back on its feet for the short, medium and long term.

 

It looks like the opinion poll's have got it so so so wrong then , a workable coalition is the way forward as we have had enough of a two party system, its time for change and the Libs need to clip the wings of which ever party they end up sharing power with.

 

'power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely'