www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1091885...shes-3-400-jobs.html

The Pier has gone under ( 400 jobs ) - hope you like the pun.

There seem to be around 5,000 jobs at least going each day so far this month.

With January possibly going to 10,000 jobs a day - I think we will reach 3 million by spring.

The banks have literally pulled the rug from under just about every retail company this week and most will go under by end of January.

Noticable from the MAIL COMMENTS under that article that Music Industry redunancies are massive this week as well. Quite simply only the "old guard" will be left and the corporate chains by 2009.

I dont think any of us really though it would be this bad - and so hang on in there.

and so it continues.

1600 Jobs in the Cheltenham and Glos
800 LDV Jobs
4000 LDV parts jobs
800 Forensic Science jobs

and this is just this week

In Germany 70,000 jobs to go in a massive crash of Arcandor ( Travel and Catalogue business )

No green shoots on the High Street and empty shops are now almost taken for granted. Woolies shops still lie empty 6 months since they went under across the UK with none rising except Wellworths and a few Icelands in the smaller branches.

The West Midlands car industry is taking a hammering and we still are yet to hear whether LUTON and ELLESMERE PORTS GM car plants will survive or another 10,000 will be added to the growing unemployment figures.

Housing and redevelopment projects which rely on shop tenants are at a total standstill in the UK with none going forward - meaning many of the Property Developers are now on the brink as well.

Yet Labour continues to hide this news by having their "Leadership" rows and any meaningless small news on the main BBC and SKY bulletins. In fact they keep hinting at the Green Shoots of Recovery whenever they are speaking about the economy.

Car sales continue to be down 30% and house buying more than that. The only good thing is that the rate of collapse is slowing - but that is like saying the top three floors went instantly and the next two floors are holding their own and may take a week to collapse.

We are based on a High Street in London and business is incredibly slow looking through our windows - half what it was this time last year or more. Only high ticket price shops are surviving.