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UK unemployment increases to 2.51 million

1984ReturnsForReal_2
1984ReturnsForReal_2 Posts: 15,431 Forumite
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The number of people unemployed in the UK rose by 53,000 to 2.51 million during the three months to March, official figures have shown.
The unemployment total is now at its highest level since December 1994."


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/10109965.stm
Not Again

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  • 1984ReturnsForReal_2
    1984ReturnsForReal_2 Posts: 15,431 Forumite
    Now with a proper thread title........
    Not Again
  • Spartacus_Mills
    Spartacus_Mills Posts: 5,545 Forumite
    Bloody Tories.
    "There's no such thing as Macra. Macra do not exist."
    "I could play all day in my Green Cathedral".
    "The Centuries that divide me shall be undone."
    "A dream? Really, Doctor. You'll be consulting the entrails of a sheep next. "
  • Optimist
    Optimist Posts: 4,557 Forumite
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    Spartacus_Mills wrote: »
    Bloody Tories.

    You beat me to it

    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
    "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."

    Bertrand Russell. British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    Spartacus_Mills wrote: »
    Bloody Tories.

    Within a few minutes of Camerclegg taking power, already a Scottish father was unemployed and his family homeless.

    I guess it's true what people have been saying about the Tories after all....
  • Doctor_Gloom
    Doctor_Gloom Posts: 397 Forumite
    It was just on the news. 8.2 million adults of working age are not employed. 8.2 million, the true unemployment figure rather than the fiddled government ones.
  • chucky
    chucky Posts: 15,170 Forumite
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    Doctor_Gloom wrote: »
    It was just on the news. 8.2 million adults of working age are not employed. 8.2 million, the true unemployment figure rather than the fiddled government ones.
    we got to get those students out to work and forget about their education!!!
  • Thrugelmir
    Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite
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    Generali wrote: »
    Within a few minutes of Camerclegg taking power, already a Scottish father was unemployed and his family homeless.

    Still has a job with potentially guaranteed 5 year contact period.
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    chucky wrote: »
    we got to get those students out to work and forget about their education!!!

    I believe students are excluded from the 8.2 million, as they are classed as active.
  • chucky
    chucky Posts: 15,170 Forumite
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    edited 12 May 2010 at 12:54PM
    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    I believe students are excluded from the 8.2 million, as they are classed as active.

    who comprises this 8.2 million?

    stay at home mums, people who are sick, carers

    should these really be classed as unemployed and looking for work?
    how is this government fiddled - please explain
  • Really2
    Really2 Posts: 12,397 Forumite
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    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    I believe students are excluded from the 8.2 million, as they are classed as active.

    No students over 16, stay at home mums and those retired before 65 are all included in the 8.2m.
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/7257667/Eight-million-people-economically-inactive.html
    economically inactive", a category that includes students, the long-term sick, unpaid carers and those who retire early.
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