surely the coalition govt isnt working is it..

more people than ever having to use charity food banks to feed their family……..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19953938

cuts to social work are placing more families at risk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/oct/17/social-workers-focus-crisis-cuts

check the gloomy forecasts from CBI, IMF, for real prospects…not govt spin/hype

Highly skilled, full time jobs have been replaced by part time casualised, minimum wage jobs, but the headline figure looks merely awful, as opposed to catastrophic

Hurrah for the coalition!

Highest employment ever?

Since a couple of weeks ago we are a nation where children starve to death
Thats not working

Yes 2.5 years should have been more than enough time to fix all of the countries problems. Sitting on their hands the lot of them.

Also where is my rocket pack and the moon on a stick.

Since a couple of weeks ago we are a nation where children starve to death
Thats not working

Really?

Low inflation doesn’t mean the economy is in any well doing well. Many analysts think a period of moderate inflation would help far more than the current obsession with low inflation.

Surely you don’t believe Government statistics do you?

Highest employment rates ever*!!!111!

*since May 2010, hardly a high watermark.

Boot production has improved every quarter since the current government took over. Blair would be impressed (Eric not Tony).

Erm…. How can employment be at its highest EVER when we have 2.6 million unemployed! Surely that’s the only figure that counts for anything? Does not compute!

Percentages vs absolute numbers?

Do we have the tractor production figures yet comrade?

we do the tractors have been priduced in abundance by happy and skilled workers for the greater good of the humble peasant

Its an improvement for sure but a little like saying the blood is not leaking as fast from the gaping hole in your chest – it means you are running out of blood not that you are recovering.

Its a mixed picture , the picture being mixed from terrible to trully bloody awful 😉

I doubt even George will have a go at spinning this as good news tbh

Given his prediction of where we would be and where we are – note also the international predictions

employment figures have been recorded since 1971 and today more people have employed work than ever before..

really?

The law of things (especially on STW):

Governments are fully responsible for bad news (note the reactions of posters on here to bad UN, GDP numbers etc) – apparently all a function of Tory (in this case) policies.

Governments have no responsibility for positive news – even though Gordie and others used to relish in taking the credit. The law must be asymmetrical in its application. 😉

The reality is that governments should/can (at best) claim marginal responsibility for both. And like most statistics, the variation is noise around an otherwise very dull trend. Good for headlines though!

The estimates of people ‘underemployed’ – who were in full time jobs (pre banking Apocolypse) and who can now only find part time work vary between 1.4 and 2 million.

Why do you think the headline employment figure bares no relationship with any other economic measure in our woeful stagnant/contracting economy?

And inflation being heralded as a success? Please! So our standard of living is imploding at a slightly lower rate than it has been for the last few years. Well whoop-de-****ing-doooooo!!! Let’s all have a party!!!

Since a couple of weeks ago we are a nation where children starve to death
Thats not working

The child didnt starve to death due to poverty.. Thats just the expected Guardians spin on it. Read the article properly and you’ll see that the child died due to the mother being in a coma and unable to feed it. Still tragic, but not in any way a reflection on the current economic climate nor their economical position.

I think everyone should read the article as you have also spun it as it is highly critical of the Benefits system and it includes actual quotes from independet folk about how the system contributed to the scenario – it is not clear from the article if there was food in the house or money to buy it.
Overall it is unlikely [ I cant see it happening] someone would starve to death here without neglect also being an issue.

employment figures have been recorded since 1971 and today more people have employed work than ever before

Only if you look at the actual numbers of employed rather than the % of working age adults employed
It is simply an artefact of the population rising and its a poor use of stats- ie there are more of us so more folk work than used to.

The reality is that governments should/can (at best) claim marginal responsibility for both. And like most statistics, the variation is noise around an otherwise very dull trend. Good for headlines though!

Can you just not join in and do some polarised baiting/spinning 🙄

You are not wrong though but one of those George blames Europe and others for the economy but when it turns around [ capitalism is boom and bust it will do with or without his “help” he will claim the credit and say the medicine worked as much as GB did this

people in work has reached a record high

is this paid work? being forced to work for free or benefits get stopped? working in Tesco with income propped up by tax credits?

the country is still in the sh!tter due to Tory policies but it’s OK because we’ve implemented the modern equivalent of the workhouse?

It could be worse; look at France. Their unemployment has shot up since July.

I heard they were going to fix it by taxing whinging c**** and guardian readers. It’s a quid every time you start a negative thread.

That and reclaiming the vat paid to germany on bike products