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    Unemployment

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4808346.stm

    The number of people out of work in the UK rose 37,000 to 1.53 million between November and January, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
    The ONS figures also showed that the number of people out of work and claiming benefits rose by 14,600 in February to 919,700.

    The claimant count rise is the biggest increase since December 1992.

    ONS figures also showed that average earnings in the three months to January were 3.5% higher than a year earlier.

    This helped ease worries highlighted by the Bank of England that big pay deals were threatening to push up inflation.


    The number of unemployed people has now risen by 109,000 in the last 12 months, but the number of people in work has risen by 178,000 in that period.

    "The fundamentals remain strong," said Margaret Hodge, Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform.

    WTF???????

    #2
    Originally posted by DimPrawn
    "The fundamentals remain strong," said Margaret Hodge, Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform.

    WTF???????
    Quite right. Since when people's rights have become a fundamental? Are you a bloody socialist DP? Shame on you. Profit is good, greed is good!
    I've seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and cruel and dark, Rome is the light.

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      #3
      Originally posted by DimPrawn
      http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4808346.stm

      The number of people out of work in the UK rose 37,000 to 1.53 million between November and January, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
      The ONS figures also showed that the number of people out of work and claiming benefits rose by 14,600 in February to 919,700.

      The claimant count rise is the biggest increase since December 1992.

      ONS figures also showed that average earnings in the three months to January were 3.5% higher than a year earlier.

      This helped ease worries highlighted by the Bank of England that big pay deals were threatening to push up inflation.


      The number of unemployed people has now risen by 109,000 in the last 12 months, but the number of people in work has risen by 178,000 in that period.

      "The fundamentals remain strong," said Margaret Hodge, Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform.

      WTF???????

      well I was one of those 37,000 back in november!
      "Well behaved women rarely make history"

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        #4
        I am the one in ten
        A number on a list
        I am the one in ten
        Even though I don`t exist
        Nobody knows me
        Even though i`m always there
        A statistic, a reminder
        Of a world that doesn`t care

        My arms enfold the dole queue
        Malnutrition dulls my hair
        My eyes are black and lifeless
        With an underprivileged stare
        I`m the beggar on the corner
        Will no-one spare a dime?
        I`m the child that never learns to read
        `cause no-one spared the time

        (chorus)

        I am the one in ten .... etc

        I`m the murderer and the victim
        The licence with the gun
        I`m a sad and bruised old lady
        In an ally in a slum
        I`m a middle aged businessman
        With chronic heart disease
        I`m another teenaged suicide
        In a street that has no trees

        (chorus)

        I am the one in ten .... etc

        I`m a starving third world mother
        A refugee without a home
        I`m a house wife hooked on valium
        I`m a pensioner alone
        I`m a cancer ridden spectre
        Covering the earth
        I`m another hungry baby
        I`m an accident of birth.

        (chorus)

        I am the one in ten .... etc

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          #5
          Aye DP

          Nice one.

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            #6
            I remember hearing that when drunk and thinking it said:

            "I've got a one inch head"
            Discuss PDA/Smartphones
            Yeovil Town FC - the real green & whites

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              #7
              .. and how many of the 'newly employed' ... are from Poland, for example...?


              No immigration restrictions = low wages = British unemployment = .001% of the population people taking 400% pay rises while being registered in the Cayman Islands.


              Oh, and donations to nu labour (although apprently with nu lab they are all 'loans' now), and subsequent peerages..... as they so desperately want to remove that final obstacle to their fourth reich... the 'other house'...
              Vieze Oude Man

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                #8
                AND just this week alone we find over 30% of the new houses soon to ruin the SE are due to immigration, most of the water shortage soon to give us unprecented restrictions on the SE is is down to overpopulation. When are we all going to find the guts to speak out against it?
                bloggoth

                If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
                John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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                  #9
                  Now, now, Xog, don't forget how enriched we all are.

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                    #10
                    Downward spiral

                    Concur with the above esteemed members. It's a race to the bottom. You can't be a leader in high-tech products and services if you all you aim is to attract the ones prepared to work for the lowest salaries. It's the egalitarian principle : bring everyone down to the lowest common denominator.

                    (typo error)
                    Last edited by TinTin; 15 March 2006, 23:22.

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