UK jobless up less than expected

setmefree2

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7882745.stm

"UK unemployment rose to 1.97 million between October and December, but less than expected, figures show."

"The UK has one of the lowest unemployment rates in Europe at 6.1%, compared with a European average of 7.7%"

Asheron

wow we should feel so much better.

mitchaa

setmefree2 wrote: »

"The UK has one of the lowest unemployment rates in Europe at 6.1%, compared with a European average of 7.7%"

I wonder if its the way you do the maths Do other countries have such massive ''sick'' lists is the question?

Rochdale_Pioneers

Asheron wrote: »

wow we should feel so much better.

You're right - we should. We keep hearing that we are uniquely in a bad place to weather the recession and yet the figures that keep coming out demonstrate this to be an utter lie being put about by Cameron. Our unemployment levels are significantly below countries like France and germany normally, and we're shedding jobs no faster than they are - and we're a long long way behind places like Ireland and Spain.

So lets be clear - we're in a deep deep recession and its going to get nasty. But we're not the worst off.

PasturesNew

Bear in mind that the OP posting this "good news .. shouldn't we all feel great" has an income so huge they've managed to knock about £25k off their mortgage every year for the last five years .... which is a lot more than many people even earn. So it's easier to sit and say "it's not that bad at all is it".

Let them eat cake.

StevieJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

Bear in mind that the OP posting this "good news .. shouldn't we all feel great" has an income so huge they've managed to knock about £25k off their mortgage every year for the last five years .... which is a lot more than many people even earn. So it's easier to sit and say "it's not that bad at all is it".

Let them eat cake.

So that changes the facts does it

Rochdale_Pioneers

PasturesNew wrote: »

Bear in mind that the OP posting this "good news .. shouldn't we all feel great" has an income so huge they've managed to knock about £25k off their mortgage every year for the last five years .... which is a lot more than many people even earn. So it's easier to sit and say "it's not that bad at all is it".

Let them eat cake.

So what? The fewer people who lose their jobs the better - the fact that unemployment isn't rising as quickly as feared is good news no matter who you are or what you earn.

halight

Any bits of news like this are Good!
But i fear that the numbers that come out in the next few months will be bad.
Things like this seem to come in blocks
You get 2-3 months of high numbers then 2-3 months of lower numbers then for some resion everyone starts laying off again and the numbers shoot up!!

Plus i feel its going to be 2012 before the numbers start to come own again.

m_c_s

Were the 30,000 jobs lost with Woolies included?
If not then next quarter we could see a very big increase!

Rochdale_Pioneers

m_c_s wrote: »

Were the 30,000 jobs lost with Woolies included?
If not then next quarter we could see a very big increase!

Some of them will be included. About half of WWs stores plus the bulk of staff at their London and Rochdale offices had gone by Christmas, as well as the majority of their DC staff in Swindon Bedford and Rochdale. So Q4's figures will have about half of the total included in them.

MJS996

Whatever the ins and outs of it, and despite the fact that it is unquestionably bad that unemployment is rising, it has to be good news for everyone that it hasn't risen as much as expected - well, good news for everyone except the people on here who seem desperate to run the economy/government/country down and down at every oppportunity.