uk tops unemployment figures the AA grumpy column

[pantoandy]

good evening and welcome along to another AA grumpy column.

(whats got on your t*ts today grumps ED )

you may well ask

today its unemployment did you know that we lead the rest on what we do best

thats paying people to stay at home out of work.



THE current generation of young people could be lost to mass unemployment, it was claimed yesterday.

The warning came as official figures showed that nearly one million were out of work.

Of those aged 16 to 24, 928,000 were without jobs - a rise of 53,000 in the three months to June.

And almost one in three 16 or 17-year-olds are suffering the same plight - and that does not even include this summer's school leavers.

The bleak statistics revealed that the total number of unemployed had leaped by 220,000 to 2.43 million - the highest since 1995.

The Prince's Trust said youth unemployment was now costing Britain £3.4 million a day in benefits.

Martina Milburn, the charity's chief executive, warned: "This is just the start of a long and downward spiral, which all too often leads to crime, homelessness or worse.

"Only by stopping young people falling out of the system can we rescue this lost potential and save the economy billions each year."

The Tories claimed the nation's youth was being "cast adrift by a Government sleepwalking through the recession".

Shadow work and pensions minister Mark Harper said: "Unemployment is fast becoming the most pressing social, economic and political problem plaguing Britain

"These figures can only tell half the story.

"Behind them lie the shattered lives of millions. More than a decade of complacency and neglect by Labour means the huge skills gap was never tackled during the economic boom.

"I urge ministers to wake up, stop writing off a generation of young people and adopt our proposal for 100,000 more apprenticeships."

Business Secretary Lord Mandelson admitted the unemployment levels were "unacceptable" - but claimed they would have been worse under the Tories.

He said: "This is something the whole country has got to rally to.

"We need public and private employers, as well as those in the charity sector, to help us mount this national campaign to back young Britain."

However, his rallying call did little to brighten the gloom for youngsters desperate for work. The unemployment statistics set a range of unwelcome records.

The number claiming Jobseeker's Allowance rose by 24,900 in July to almost 1.6 million - a 12-year high.

And the number of vacancies dropped to 427,000 in the past three months - the lowest since comparable records began in 2001.

Average pay - excluding bonuses - was up 2.5 per cent on a year ago but was the lowest since National Statistics' records began in 2001.

There were 277,000 redundancies in the three months to June - more than 3,040 a day. The jobless rate in the North East has spiralled to 9.8 per cent - one in ten - against 5.9 per cent in the South East.

And economists said unemployment was on track to hit three million by February.

Ross Walker, chief economist at Royal Bank of Scotland, said: "There are signs in the survey data that business activity and confidence is picking up. But these numbers are grim.

"The underlying trends are not pretty and the problem is when we get to three million there's no real sign that it will fall back from there very quickly."

Banking giants Lloyds and Royal Bank of Scotland are among dozens of Britain's corporate heavyweights to have cut jobs this year.

Lloyds alone has axed nearly 9,000 since April and warned yesterday it would be slashing more in its asset management arm.

CBI director general Richard Lambert said companies and trade unions were becoming far more flexible in pay talks - helping to minimise job cuts.

He said: "These numbers would have been a lot worse but for the way that flexible working practices and pay freezes and cuts have limited the damage."

But TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said it was clear that economic recovery was a long way off.

He added: "With over one in six young people out of work, unemployment is already at crisis level. The Government must do more to get people back into work, otherwise we risk losing another generation of young people to mass unemployment."

It was claimed yesterday that ministers had wasted £2 million on leadership training for Jobcentre staff.

Shadow work and pensions secretary Theresa May said: "Surely taxpayers' cash would have been better spent keeping open the 54 Jobcentres the Government closed last year while unemployment was rising."

ALMOST one firm in 12 is looking for foreign workers because they are seen as more "hard working and reliable" than Britons, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

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AAG

thats only the tip of the iceberg acording to the radio unemployment is around 4 million altogether although this clapped out government wont admit this.

as to lord mandlesons poke that unemployment would have been worse under the tories is hollyhocks.

look at what mrs thatcher did in the 80,s making people get up and look for work which subsequent labour governments have undone by allowing companies to close and transfer british jobs abroad because its cheaper in asia than the uk.

which brings me to another point british firms looking to foreign workers because they are more reliable and working

this is more labour spin than a zanusi tumble dryer.

if tony blair hadnt opened the doors of the uk to every tom dick and abdul we wouldnt have been in this situation.

the real reason uk firms employ foreigners is because they are cheaper to employ.

look at it like this

in a 24 hour shift period it would take 3 british workers doing 8 hours if they worked 12 you would have to pay overtime and extra for weekends and bank holidays.

then in comes abdul fresh from dover having sneaked in

in the back of a lorry or polish pete who,s just got off the eurolines bus from krakow.

they,ll work 12 hour shifts 7 days a week.

make bank holidays and weekends part of their working week and what do you have 3 british workers jobs snatched away by foreigners because then the shareholders profits go up and taxes from polish pete and abdul from iraq,s wages pay the 3 brits made redundant by them their unemployment benefit.

this is todays britain a country going down the pan no jobs for the british but jobs for abdul and co.

or like myself in a complete role reversal unemployed british workers being paid peanuts to drive chinese takeaway meals to customers.

WELCOME TO THE UK

[Oscar Namechange]

pantoandy;1229508 wrote: WELCOME TO THE UKYeah, whilst Im thinking about pensions, the old pension excuse is always lurking whenever somebody challenges immigration isnt it?. The plain fact is this: if these people knew the cycle that would have to be done to fulfil a solving of the pensions crisis through immigration, they would be shocked and only supportive of it if they were extremely communistic and didnt mind living packed in like sardines.

You see, according to the United Nations own reports and calculations if we stopped immigration to zero right now the support ratio of would be 2.36 : 1 by 2050. Now, if we had a annual net inflow of 124,000 people (ie or another 6.2 MILLION people by 2050) the support ratio only goes to 2.64 : 1. To get something like the necessary 4:1 ratio for comfortable pensions of all citizens, we would need to be importing 1.196 MILLION people per year giving a total immigration value of 59.8MILLION people by 2050. We are already holding atleast 65 Million people in the country at the moment, the idea of having to double our population to approximately 120 MILLION people in the next 40 years to just cover the effects of an ageing populations pension deficit is not really feasible is it?

Just thought I'd throw that in while I'm in a foul mood today

[gmc]

oscar;1229524 wrote: Yeah, whilst Im thinking about pensions, the old pension excuse is always lurking whenever somebody challenges immigration isnt it?. The plain fact is this: if these people knew the cycle that would have to be done to fulfil a solving of the pensions crisis through immigration, they would be shocked and only supportive of it if they were extremely communistic and didnt mind living packed in like sardines.

You see, according to the United Nations own reports and calculations if we stopped immigration to zero right now the support ratio of would be 2.36 : 1 by 2050. Now, if we had a annual net inflow of 124,000 people (ie or another 6.2 MILLION people by 2050) the support ratio only goes to 2.64 : 1. To get something like the necessary 4:1 ratio for comfortable pensions of all citizens, we would need to be importing 1.196 MILLION people per year giving a total immigration value of 59.8MILLION people by 2050. We are already holding atleast 65 Million people in the country at the moment, the idea of having to double our population to approximately 120 MILLION people in the next 40 years to just cover the effects of an ageing populations pension deficit is not really feasible is it?

Just thought I'd throw that in while I'm in a foul mood today


You also need a viable economy to give all those people jobs and while all those public sector employees have nice safe pensions all the poor mugs in private industry who actually generate the wealth to pay for it all are having their final salary schemes closed down all over the place-thank gordon for that one-meanwhile the bankers are paying themselves big bonuses again and the banks have all the funds given to them by the taxpayer on deposit giving interest. We can't feed a population that size and food imports are going up in price all the time-course gordie boy manages to miss out on that when calculating inflation-and that hits those on low incomes most of all. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer and the leadership clings on for dear life, god bless new labour.