Harvest Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 Unemployment hits a 7 year low as Tories announce 2 million new jobs created since 2010. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-32348353 UK unemployment has fallen to its lowest rate since July 2008, official figures have shown. The number of jobless people dropped by 76,000 to 1.84 million in the three months to February, the Office for National Statistics said on Friday. That means the unemployment rate has fallen to 5.6%, in line with forecasts. Average weekly earnings in the three months to February, excluding bonuses, rose by 1.8% compared with the same period a year earlier. I also note the IMF has praised the handling of the UK economy as it continues to out perform the rest of the EU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppet2 Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 Fine, providing you can live on two hours a week zero hour contracts which if offered by the job centre, you are forced to take otherwise you lose your benefits. What a stitch-up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukdobby Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 Make fracking a go go and unemployment would be zero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F. Sidebottom Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 Fine, providing you can live on two hours a week zero hour contracts which if offered by the job centre, you are forced to take otherwise you lose your benefits. What a stitch-up. Proof please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Boomer- Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 Proof please. Provide proof to the contrary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F. Sidebottom Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 Provide proof to the contrary I'm not claiming the contrary - I'm only asking the person making the claim to prove it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berberis Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 (edited) Fine, providing you can live on two hours a week zero hour contracts which if offered by the job centre, you are forced to take otherwise you lose your benefits. What a stitch-up. Im sorry but you are wrong. You are only taken off your benefits if you work more than 16 hours a week, but don't let the facts get in the way of a ignorant rant. ---------- Post added 17-04-2015 at 16:23 ---------- Provide proof to the contrary Don't get sucked into poppet2's lack of knowledge. Have a read: https://www.gov.uk/jobseekers-allowance/eligibility 3. Eligibility To get Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) you must: be 18 or over but below State Pension age - there are some exceptions if you’re 16 or 17 not be in full-time education be in England, Scotland or Wales be available for work be actively seeking work work on average less than 16 hours per week Edited April 17, 2015 by Berberis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WalkleyIan Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 If the news is so great, and you cant deny the headline figures tell a good story, then why aren't the Tory party soaring in the polls by now? They should really be up past 40% and heading for a decent majority by now. Maybe they are and its 1992 all over again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harvest Posted April 17, 2015 Author Share Posted April 17, 2015 Im sorry but you are wrong. You are only taken off your benefits if you work more than 16 hours a week. And only 1 job in 45 in the UK is on a zero hour contract anyhow. So those working short hours is virtually zero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Ladd Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 Fine, providing you can live on two hours a week zero hour contracts which if offered by the job centre, you are forced to take otherwise you lose your benefits. What a stitch-up. There are 700,000 people on zero hours contracts about 350,000 prefer to be on such contracts, a further 17% of the total are students working in catering, stewarding type jobs, there are about 250,000 on these contracts that would prefer an alternative. Out of a total workforce of 30 million this is a tiny proportion. (Figures from Daily Politics) ---------- Post added 17-04-2015 at 16:31 ---------- If the news is so great, and you cant deny the headline figures tell a good story, then why aren't the Tory party soaring in the polls by now? They should really be up past 40% and heading for a decent majority by now. Maybe they are and its 1992 all over again. Its a very good question,I feel that there is still some hangover from the Thatcher era,with many thinking that Cameron is similar. In fact Cameron has more in common with Macmillan and the "one nation" Tory than the divisive Thatcher. It could well be a 1992 moment, I hope it is because I do not relish a Labour SNP coalition which will not feature the SNP leader but will feature Alex Salmon. A nightmare scenario if ever there was one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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