Thread: UK Unemployment Rise to a 17 year high

The number of unemployed in the UK has hit a 17-year high of more than 2.5 million and pushed the unemployment rate to 8%, official data showed Wednesday.

The rate for the three months of November to January rose from the 7.9% reported last month for the three months of October to December, inclusive. Britain reports its jobless figures on a constantly rolling three-month window.

Gains in the number of people working in the private sector were not enough to offset growth in the labor pool and public sector job cuts, causing the increase in the unemployment rate, the Office for National Statistics said.

The total number of workers actually rose by 32,000, better than the 27,000 increase that economists had been expecting. But it wasn't enough to keep pace with the labor force, which grew by 93,000.

Yes I think while the cuts are being made the rate will rise and then drop as the slack is taken up.

Yes, but with a lot of unskilled poorly paying jobs

The world will always need truckers.

I read somewhere that there are 9.3 million people in the uk claiming benefits.............. what for i don't know, but this is a staggering amount of money being spent.

Benefits could be anything, I would suspect the % would be about the same here.
There will always be a majority of unskilled work, always has been and always will be.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...rd-times-again

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Since this thread was started peacock, the unemployment rate in the uk had supposedly gone down, but they have just gone back up again, the government are scamming the figures, most new jobs are low paid and part time, 2 unemployed people for 1 job, it makes the figures look far better than what they are and over 80% of new jobs are going to people from outside of the uk, while our youngsters rot on the dole, with little hope of any future, its a national scandal.

I imagine that festering sore of unemployment helped fuel the recent riots, along with other factors in a run down society, are the police now reconsiderng cutting there numbers after the recent anarchy

Originally Posted by peacock

I imagine that festering sore of unemployment helped fuel the recent riots, along with other factors in a run down society, are the police now reconsiderng cutting there numbers after the recent anarchy

No mate ............ the government are going ahead with the cuts of 16,000 police officers, they were stretched to the limit during the riots, they had to call in officers on rest days and cancel leave and they also shipped in thousands from other areas. When the 16,000 are gone, i hope theres not another riot, they won't be able to cope and the army won't be able to help, they are stretched to the limit as well and they are losing about 20,000 staff numbers .......... its crazy.