more men in work than ever before
more women in work than ever before
25% of (Labour's) debt repaid (in 2 years)
£33 BILLION (equiv to Defence budget) of interest payments saved (which Labour would have paid, not only this year, but in perpetuity)

etc etc

cant wait for Balls-Up !

Do they forget the unemployed 16 - 18 year olds though? These should also count to the unemployed, but don't as they can'y claim benefit! I wonder what the true number of unemployed really is? Even without those 16 - 18 year olds, there are also any unemployed not claiming Jobseekers allowance, but maybe claiming another benefit. They may be looking after a relative, or living off of savings, as they don't want or care to be treated like a saddo or insulted (by the benefits agency) so they don't claim Jobseekers Allowance!

Many hidden figures to the real number of unemployed people in Britain & many unemployed, as certain companies prefer to employ immigrants cheaply.

Touchingliy naieve & gullible In The Krap.

JUST the type of trusting sad sucka that the raving-RIGHT/Wrong-uns LURVE.

Believes all their same old smarmy drivel and then votes for IT(K)'s own downfall.

DOH !

bh wrote:
Do they forget the unemployed 16 - 18 year olds though? These should also count to the unemployed, but don't as they can'y claim benefit!.

Unemployment Now - 7.9%
Set to peak at - 8.3%

Compare with Euro average - 12%
Spain 25%

Brilliant Coalition !

Yep. Send the government to wotk in some factory or shop & see how, they get on through the week. Then they may understand why many people refuse to work...Bring on the communists!

In The Know wrote:
cant wait for Balls-Up !

MPs are due to vote on the benefit squeeze, although Labour has yet to decide whether it will oppose the move.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20600442

They dont have a clue (let alone a policy !) do they ?

The ONLY thing they can say is "when you are to your neck in debt - borrow more money" !!!!

In The Know wrote:
bh wrote:
Do they forget the unemployed 16 - 18 year olds though? These should also count to the unemployed, but don't as they can'y claim benefit!.

Unemployment Now - 7.9%
Set to peak at - 8.3%

Compare with Euro average - 12%
Spain 25%

Brilliant Coalition !

You should go to the Jobcentre more often ITK it's more packed then ever. Of course ITK hates dolers and doesn't know how it is to get full time work it's part time.

Exactly ITK doesn't have a clue, either.

Many workers had their hours cut, before any recesssion even started. It never got as bad as employers imagined & the people that had hours cut, were later given lots of overtime, to compensate for lack of staff.

However when things picked up, employees were not given back their old hours...Oh no, they employed more part time staff, as part time staff don't have to have teabreaks & lunch breaks (paid or unpaid) & so cover, the complete day. Meaning it's easier & cheaper for the employer, rather than making it better for the employee.

Again many parents used to be allowed to work their hours, around the family i.e. children etc. These days companies are not so helpful & expect you to be flexible to please them, & not you to be flexible for your own personal benefit.

One company (Debenhams again) said that if you were not prepared to e flexible 7 days a week, 24 hours a day (except Christmas Day, as apparently that is the one holiday of the year, that hasn't been quoshed by greedy retailers.

People do like to work, providing there is a bit a give & take & care, like marriage etc!

andrew wrote:
You should go to the Jobcentre more often ITK.

I've never been to a JobCentre (in my day they were called Labour Exchanges !)

I do drive past one, regularly, though ... and always see a ragbag of unemployables standing outside. (Some even take their dogs along !)

Well you need to live your dog outside they say you been there for 5 minutes in reality your there for 45 minutes and nobody is going to sign on in a suit and tie are they.

andrew wrote:
nobody is going to sign on in a suit and tie are they.

.. obviously not ... you are far more likely to get a job wearing scruffy trackies (that look as if you have lived in them for the past year), a hoodie and a dog-end in your mouth, aren't you?

Going to the Jobcentre is hardly like going for a Job interview.

Most Jobcentre staff are pretty clueless & live in cloud cuckoo land anyway.

I witnessed a qualified fitter, being offered a driving job & being scowled up on, as he told the daft cow, where to stick it!

In all truthfulness, the "Jobcentre" should be manned by people, that have been long term unemployed. For then they may actually be able to see the picture, a bit more clearer & be more sympathetic.

Those chappies with dogs, may well be people of no fixed abode, that will always find it hard to get work, because you can't get work, without a proper address, if you have to live in a tree house et al. Now if Social Services, were doing their jobs properly, instead of those poor chappies, having to rely on some non Government run charity for shelter, then just maybe they might actually be in a better position to find work.

Don't pop at homeless non abode types. I've been there. It's a Catch 22 situation. People need to open their eyes.

Governments don't open their eyes, as they are just fatcat bureaucrats, that want a swift kick up the jacksie. Doubt any politician, has even been unemployed in their life, to even remotely understand the unemployed, let alone the braindead middle class staff, they get to run Jobcentre Plus. The Labour Exchange of yesterday, doesn't even exist in comparison to the daft, badily run Jobcentre.

Take the Politics out of all of this..............

....how would you deal with your personal debt?
- you would reduce unaffordable outgoings that are not critical to survival
- you would start a payback regime, however small, to gain confidence with your creditors
- you would then , and only then, see the wood for the trees and be able to propose a future plan based on a stable 'income / outgoing budget'

....sounds like the coalition plan....I support it.

The alternative = Mr Balls. Hi splan is politically driven, based on him not being in power and therefore not having to impliment him sniping alterntive plan...which is borrow more and spend it!

So i really don't see how that is credible, considering he was part of the close knit team who lead the UK to this position in the first place.

Raving-Right/Wrong-uns and their sad fans - they never learn, do they ?

At last somebody knows how the Jobcentre work and knows the real reality of being unemployed unlike ITK and the Tories.

My job centre in Margate is full of Slovakian Gypsies.All smartly turned out in the latest designer fake shell suits etc...and the women all seem to be enormously obese and have lots of kids

I live just round the corner from the Margate Job Centre Plus. The only people loafing about are white English types with staffies drinking Red Bull. Completely unemployable the lot of em.

Not that there are many opportunities down our way to start with

If it wasn't for immigrants who would be doing the crap jobs like picking veg for supermarkets for a dollar an hour eh?

Steve wrote:
I live just round the corner from the Margate Job Centre Plus. The only people loafing about are white English types with staffies drinking Red Bull. Completely unemployable the lot of em.

Not that there are many opportunities down our way to start with

If it wasn't for immigrants who would be doing the crap jobs like picking veg for supermarkets for a dollar an hour eh?

Exactly, Steve

I just moved to Margate and need to use that Jobcentre soon thank you IA more immigrants draining valuable resources, when will a Slovak Gypo get a job in Kent ? Never they just play the dole like the rest of Eastern Europeans unless it's £4 per hour.

Mr Opinion wrote:
Take the Politics out of all of this..............

....how would you deal with your personal debt?
- you would reduce unaffordable outgoings that are not critical to survival
- you would start a payback regime, however small, to gain confidence with your creditors
- you would then , and only then, see the wood for the trees and be able to propose a future plan based on a stable 'income / outgoing budget'

....sounds like the coalition plan....I support it.

The alternative = Mr Balls. Hi splan is politically driven, based on him not being in power and therefore not having to impliment him sniping alterntive plan...which is borrow more and spend it!

So i really don't see how that is credible, considering he was part of the close knit team who lead the UK to this position in the first place.

This will go right over their heads, Mr Opinion - you do realise that, dont you?