Unemployment in the UK - My opinions and views

Just a few opinions and views on unemployment in the UK from a northerner's perspective.

Stef's 4-part serious on Unemployment:

Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6G1rq5LdA4
Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U4R36WjFCI&feature=related
part 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-7feNWRwig&feature=channel
part 4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO_kjoKkhv8&feature=channel

National statistics - http://www.statistics.gov.uk/hub/labour-market/people-in-work/employment/inde...

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• Lancashire
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[ClaudioEmarat]

@PThePower1005 Like what? 

[ClaudioEmarat]

@zareh77 You are absolutely right. UK GDP projection growth for 2012 (BEST case): 0.9%. Not even a chance to improve the job market with this number. Now, Brazil GDP for 2012? 4.5%. Argentina (and all this noise about Falklands, in 25 years they will be better off than the UK)? 6.7%! Malaysia 5%. And so on. Indeed, the world has changed. I

[thebeststoryevertold]

Want real change? Vote for the Chav Party

[ForeverComplaining]

My sister left college in 2009 with all fails in her A levels, she then did voluntary office job and then worked at tescos, then she did the police specials and then she got an office job and has been promoted several times and now earns 25k a year, which is good for a 21 year old imo.

I personally find it hard to sympathise with all you people here, I think yes it's hard to find a job but I think it's mostly down to the fact that you're all lazy.

[deadlyNytshayd]

get off your arse you lazy sccrounger and get BACK tO WORK

[kojimapie]

I live in-between Blackburn and Manchester in the North of England. Took me 8 months to find a job, all there was at the job centre was part time nursing home carer and part time cleaning jobs. The job centre always had lines when i went to sign on. the Conservative party isn't really in touch with what's going on in the North or on a local level. Luckily iv found full time work though with a job agency

[zareh77]

@iBeep2009 this country is going to the dogs. soon there wont be any big corporations left as they are going to the far east for cheap labour. are once great nation of the uk will be no more and soon we will be a third world country along with the usa, canada, france, spain, italy and greece. the uk was finished 5 years ago and its sinking even deeper as we speak.

[iBeep2009]

Keep these blogs going - its only now that 'real people' can leave an accurate record of history. I'm so sick of Ian Duncan Smith accusing the unemployed of being lazy or stupid - I'm in bournemouth, and we had 800 people queueing for 80 jobs at a new Tesco - they all went to migrant workers. They are now putting 1 yr unemployed people down here onto identical work used as part of 'community payback' for burglars and thieves - how degrading is that?

[PThePower1005]

Maybe the rise in unemployment in recent years may have a strong influence from the shift in a lot of businesses services to online mediums and electronic services? Cutting out the middle man. therefore lowering the number of jobs. For example, it might take 10 men to manage a company's online services which may have employed more offline. Also our country does not produce hardly anything any more. The country needs to revitalise its productions industries, maybe producing something china cant!