Unemployment up again. Rise now 750,000 since Labour came to power.

[Vague_Boy]

Only another million and a half till we get to the tory levels then.

 

Those receiving invalidity benefit in 1979: 700,000

 

Those receiving invalidity benefit in 2010: 2.5 million.

 

The number of incapacity benefit claimants has sharply increased, from 700,000 in 1979 to around 2.5million now — of which just a third are estimated to be legitimate.

 

Link

 

Now, either the citizens of this country are getting progressively sicker or successive governments have found it expedient to move people onto invalidity type benefits and away from the politically sensitive unemployment register.

 

The number of people economically inactive in the UK is listed as 8.16 million, a record (link).

 

So I'm afraid NuLiebour have LONG since passed the old Tory record on unemployment.

 

But you keep to your illusions if it makes you happy.

[hard2miss]

Unemployment up again. Rise now almost 750,000 since Labour came to power.

 

Today it was anounced that unemployment had passed 2.5 million an increase of almost 750,000 since Labour came to power promising things could only get better.

 

What we got was national debt at record levels, youth unemployment at record levels and unemployment still on the rise.

If they get in again they can have a crack at the Tory record.

[foxy lady]

Only another million and a half till we get to the tory levels then.

 

With 7.7 million people now having to work part time, mainly because they can't find full time employment and hundreds of thousands working short hours rather than face redundancy, we passed the Tory numbers long ago.

[L00b]

Welcome back anarchist, 'been missing your threads

[Greybeard]

I suspect the real unemployment problem won't become apparent until after the election.

 

Some economist I was reading yesterday was suggesting that any effective reduction in the PSBR will involve job losses of around half a million over five years across the public service sector, irrespective of who forms the next govt.

[HeadingNorth]

Some economist I was reading yesterday was suggesting that any effective reduction in the PSBR will involve job losses of around half a million over five years across the public service sector, irrespective of who forms the next govt.

 

 

I assume that, as in the early 1980s, people will ignore the causes that make job losses an unavoidable evil, and just blame whoever is in power when they happen.

[scottf]

Its all going a bit 'shamless' isn't it!!!

[hard2miss]

With 7.7 million people now having to work part time, mainly because they can't find full time employment and hundreds of thousands working short hours rather than face redundancy, we passed the Tory numbers long ago.

Not if you took into account the people on YTS and part time when the Tories were in. Don't think for one minute that its only Labour that knows how to manipulate the figures to make them more appealing, the Tories invented creative unemployment figures to meet the need of the times IE: when the scuppered the country.

[foxy lady]

Not if you took into account the people on YTS and part time when the Tories were in. Don't think for one minute that its only Labour that knows how to manipulate the figures to make them more appealing, the Tories invented creative unemployment figures to meet the need of the times IE: when the scuppered the country.

 

Why not post a link to this account instead of just making inuendo?

[HeadingNorth]

Not if you took into account the people on YTS and part time when the Tories were in. Don't think for one minute that its only Labour that knows how to manipulate the figures to make them more appealing, the Tories invented creative unemployment figures to meet the need of the times IE: when the scuppered the country.

 

The Tories were not in power when the country sank and had to be bailed out by the IMF. They only came into office in 1979, and spent the next ten years putting it back afloat!