Unemployment FALLS this month!!!!!!!

mewbie_2

wageslave wrote: »

What Hamish fails to mention is that one in six households in Scotland has no adult in employment.

Poor little orphans.

I've half a mind to bake them a cake.

wageslave

mewbie wrote: »

Poor little orphans.

I've half a mind to bake them a cake.

Mewbie Antoinette:rolleyes:

mewbie_2

wageslave wrote: »

Mewbie Antoinette:rolleyes:

Quite pleased. I 'got' that without having to Wiki it.

Rochdale_Pioneers

StevieJ wrote: »

He probably does.

No, but I shop there. Anti-Tesco frothers would probably consider that to be the same thing....

chucky

Entertainer wrote: »

Except it was lower than nearly everywhere in the EU in 1997 as well. Including Germany and Italy.

that is not true - Italy's unemployment was higher.
Spain and Greece were two other countries with higher unemployment than the UK in 1997...
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/1997/12/feature/it9712222f.htm

Capistan

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

I'm sure you realise the difference between quarterly and monthly statistics?

In the 3 months to august's cumulative total, unemployment rose.

In the last of those three months, from july to august, it fell.

So simple, even an idiot could understand it.

Remind me again why you couldn't?

Unemployment always improves in the final month because the shift
the number into the first two months hence it alway looks as if things are
improving, you can go back at all the previous figures and see this trend.
Miraculously the following month is always worse but that don't matter cos the last month of the three will always show a 'statistically engineered' improvement (or 'big fat lie', in laymens terms).gl

ruggedtoast

Rochdale_Pioneers wrote: »

I would have thought that on average absolutely anyone is on average better than a Frenchman. I can think of worse nationalities to be, but not many. This country is on average absolutely brilliant. Its home. Its what we make of it. Its not perfect and there are things to improve - so why not work towards that instead of bashing it all the time?

Hmm – I’m guessing you don’t live in one of the bits of Britain where people cant go outside their front door without worrying about being beaten up (the UK now suffers more violent crime than the US or South Africa). Or that you have to endure the misery of using Britain’s dysfunctional train system to attempt to commute to your job, or that you’re in any way affected by the crippling cost of housing.

I’m also guessing you don’t have to worry about your kids going through a British state school, or that kids here have higher rates of alcoholism, criminalisation, mental illness, drug dependency, anxiety and depression, and malnutrition than anywhere else in the EU.

It seems having the longest working hours, the fewest holidays, the highest level of inequality, the highest incidence of depression treated by one of the worst healthcare systems, and one of the lowest literacy rates in the EU isn’t a problem for you either?

I am therefore surmising that you’re one of the fortunate few , who for generations have been sitting pretty twizzling your monocle , plumping your top hat, and waxing your moustache while telling the ordinary people that they’ve never had it so good and to just jolly well put up and shut up because at least they’re not French.

And by the way a survey sample taking an undisclosed number of people from an undisclosed region of one country and matching them against an undisclosed number of people from a totally different country, and then extrapolating that into some sort of average for the entire country is not uniform. In fact it barely has any internal validity. Back to Statistical Methods 1 for you.

Graham_Devon

To be honest, this should be happening.

The government have invested at least a billion in job creation, with companies bidding for the money to take people on.

We also have the government pushing extra education, i.e. stay on at uni and do a masters degree.

Unemployment figures have always been fudged, by any government. I personally take them with a pinch of salt. We had the tories pushing people on to disability benefits to bring unemployment figures down, and twe have labour offering more and more incentives to stay on different benefits with extra cash every which way you turn.

Labour have been great at "topping up" wages and keeping people working 16 hours. It then creates two jobs from 1 job. Hence more people are in employment. The government then tops up the wages through benefits.

Really2

Graham_Devon wrote: »

To be honest, t

Graham, your back or should I says NDG. (tries to remove mask)

Graham_Devon

Really2 wrote: »

Graham, your back or should I says NDG. (tries to remove mask)

What? .........