Unemployment

[victor]

Is getting worse as National Trust reveal that 550 workers have to go because of N.I. increases.
New Look to close 38 shops this year.
Also back in 2022 our rachel demanded that the tories call an emergency budget when there was a 0.1 % fall in the figures.
So will she call one now the situation has happened on her watch

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[cromwell]

Probably (definitely) not.

What I'm more concerned about is the 11% of working age adults who are "too sick to work". Historically the rate was around 2-3%.

[Workingman]

The rate of unemployment is still below what it was for 12 of the 14 years the Tories were in power when it peaked at 8.2%.

And the percentage of those who are "too sick to work" is not 11%. The figure for those who get one sickness benefit is 10.1% (4.2 million) - not the same thing - and the majority of them do work. The current rate for those on long-term sickness and not working is 7%. It is unclear if this includes those 5.2% who are permanently disabled, but they have always been with us,

Strange, isn't it, that Labour's current attempts to reform the various benefits systems have got you all 'anti' and up in arms.

Do try to be consistent.

[cromwell]

The most consistent thing so far is the failure of the Labour government to get any benefit reforms past their own back benchers.

[medsec222]

Who would have thought that with such a majority the Labour Government would turn out to be as impotent as the Tories.

[Workingman]

Eh?

The bill passed by 336 votes to 242.

Yes, there were some concessions to some amendments, but they all essentially fell, but that would have been the case regardless of the party in power. See: Osborne 2012. The welfare bill had been rising steadily under the Tories, ironic or what, so something had to be (tried) to be done. We all knew it!

Had Labour done nothing it would all have been; "Why aren't they acting?" "Useless bunch of 'Lefties.'' "Couldn't run a bath." and so on.

BRING BACK BORIS!. He'll "get welfare done" or not, or maybe the absent St Nigel of Clacton MP, CEO of the Reform Party UK Ltd, PLC, if anyone can find him. Then there's Kemi...

[Suff]

Well we could be upping the debt ceiling by $5T and have a national debt of $36T with a GDP of $30T and a budget deficit annually of $2.6T.

Small mercies eh???

[victor]

Well unemployment at a 4 yr high,liebour really making the economy better----aren't they?

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[cromwell]

JLR (Jaguar Land Rover) are about to make 500 management roles redundant in the UK.

Mind you this is on them. With a decision to go totally EV, a dreadful new concept car and awful woke advertising, they have decimated their own car sales.

[Suff]

JLR (Jaguar Land Rover) are about to make 500 management roles redundant in the UK.

Mind you this is on them. With a decision to go totally EV, a dreadful new concept car and awful woke advertising, they have decimated their own car sales.

Faguar is the meme going round.