Unemployment Falls Again

Doctor_Gloom

It's that time of the month again, and its the same old government lies.

Over 8 million adults of working age are not employed. So 8 million plus is the true unemployment figure.

ILW

Chris2685 wrote: »

Wanna bet?

Why not?...

Chris2685

ILW wrote: »

Why not?...

Because some people just don't want to work.

bendix

ILW wrote: »

Why not?...

Do I have to tell my window cleaning story again?

I called six places in the Yellow Pages to come and clean my windows, but they had to come on a Saturday otherwise I wouldn't be there to pay them.

"Cor blimey, gov, not a chance".

Fair enough, I thought.

The seventh call was to a Polish guy. He was around in twenty minutes.

Moral of the story. The much maligned immigrant workers are doing jobs our lazy good for nothing underclass think they are too good for.

I also know a Philipina Nurse. She says she can work here because the white English nurses think wiping a patient's a**e is beneath them.

chucky

bendix wrote: »

I also know a Philipina Nurse.

that yellow fever again bendix, tut, tut.

you'll be getting yourself into trouble with mrs bendix...

ninky_2

bendix wrote: »

I also know a Philipina Nurse. She says she can work here because the white English nurses think wiping a patient's a**e is beneath them.

don't fall for inverted racism bendix. i know english nurses who wipe !!!!!!. two of my cousins in fact. although maybe they don't count as 'pure' english as they are mixed heritage (hate that term but i don't know how else to describe it). still, they grew up here.

bendix

ninky wrote: »

don't fall for inverted racism bendix. i know english nurses who wipe !!!!!!. two of my cousins in fact. although maybe they don't count as 'pure' english as they are mixed heritage (hate that term but i don't know how else to describe it). still, they grew up here.

Perhaps I'm being a tad hyperbolic. It's been known.

I do have a friend who recruits into private nursing homes though, and they say it's impossible to get UK people to apply for jobs; hence the influx of (very sexy) nurses from the third world.

Globalisation is a wonderful thing.

bendix

chucky wrote: »

that yellow fever again bendix, tut, tut.

you'll be getting yourself into trouble with mrs bendix...

Not yellow fever, chucky. Bamboo fever.

chewmylegoff

Doctor_Gloom wrote: »

It's that time of the month again, and its the same old government lies.

Over 8 million adults of working age are not employed. So 8 million plus is the true unemployment figure.

actually the figures for 16-65s are:

2.47 million unemployed
9.26 million economically inactive

so 11.73 million are not employed.

of these:

2.19 million are students (including those doing a-levels at school)
2.29 million are stay at home parents or carers
0.18 million are short term sick
2.23 million are long term sick
1.50 million have retired early
0.86 million are categorised as "other", whatever that means

personally i don't think this amounts to an unemployment rate of 8 million. there is an argument that the long term sick figure includes a large number of people who are fit to work, but it doesn't get you anywhere near unemployment of 8 million.

the_flying_pig

I personally really dislike the cheerleading of any bad economic news by [very likely misguided] people who think it'll help them get a cheap house. What I'd like to see is further steady deflation in the asset bubble accompanied by solid GDP growth.

But I wholeheartedly agree that this thread is misleading in the sense that the cited fall in unemployment is: (a) questionable; and (b) miniscule when set alongside the losses of the last couple of years.