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UK unemployment increases to 2.47 million

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  • chucky
    chucky Posts: 15,170 Forumite
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    1984ReturnsForReal wrote: »
    That was before the anoucement of QE......

    Without QE it would be (in my opinion of a little but not a lot knowledge) it would have exceeded 3m by far.
    we have 500,000 less people unemployed - that's good news :)

    [STRIKE]doire[/STRIKE] some may not see it that way but that is good news
  • 1984ReturnsForReal_2
    1984ReturnsForReal_2 Posts: 15,431 Forumite
    chucky wrote: »
    we have 500,000 less people unemployed - that's good news :)

    [STRIKE]doire[/STRIKE] some may not see it that way but that is good news


    Well. That pot of money has just been well & truly capped (unlike BP)..

    A big thud is coming.
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  • worldtraveller
    worldtraveller Posts: 14,013 Forumite
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    edited 16 June 2010 at 12:57PM
    A further step towards the 3M+ figure, that all those sheeponomists said, earlier this year, that it would not reach. It will IMHO.
    There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more...
  • Silverbull
    Silverbull Posts: 369 Forumite
    The true figure is well over 3M if dont fiddle with the numbers.

    When the fiddled with numbers show 3M unemployed, dread to think what the tru numbers are!
  • 1984ReturnsForReal_2
    1984ReturnsForReal_2 Posts: 15,431 Forumite
    Silverbull wrote: »
    The true figure is well over 3M if dont fiddle with the numbers.

    When the fiddled with numbers show 3M unemployed, dread to think what the tru numbers are!


    Lower pay & reduced hours would add hundreds of thousands on to the effect also.
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  • drc
    drc Posts: 2,057 Forumite
    Real unemployment is about 10 million when you factor in all those people not working, not getting benefits.
  • bendix
    bendix Posts: 5,499 Forumite
    zakaya wrote: »
    Can someone tell me how this government is going to get all these people back to work? Let alone try to get those on invalidity benefit back into work. I don't think the workshy need to worry to much!


    Simple. Cut benefits.

    They'll then find jobs or work for themselves.
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    1984ReturnsForReal wrote: »
    That was before the anoucement of QE......

    Without QE it would be (in my opinion of a little but not a lot knowledge) it would have exceeded 3m by far.

    Well played Labour then icon7.gif
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    drc wrote: »
    Real unemployment is about 10 million when you factor in all those people not working, not getting benefits.

    You mean pensioners icon7.gif
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • drc
    drc Posts: 2,057 Forumite
    StevieJ wrote: »
    You mean pensioners icon7.gif

    Nope. Some are stay at home mums who don't/can't claim benefits (partner earning too much etc), those that cannot work but can't claim benefits because they've got too much in savings etc.
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