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February 16th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda - More than 1m women now jobless in Britain – 91,000 rise on last year
- More than 530 Britons losing their jobs every DAY
- Britain’s overall jobless rate of 8.4 per cent is worst since 1995
- North West worst hit region in last quarter with 26,000 more jobless
- Union boss describes ‘worst employment prospects since recession began’
By
Chris Parsons and Becky Barrow
Last updated at 7:49 AM on 16th February 2012
Gender gap: Of the 48,000 extra people found jobless in the last quarter of 2011, two thirds are women
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AROUND 580 foreigners landed a job in the UK every day last year while the number of British-born workers collapsed, official figures revealed today.
The Office for National Statistics said the number of British-born workers with a job crashed by 208,000 last year.
But this is the exact opposite of what is happening to foreign-born workers, with numbers jumping by 212,000 last year.
Figures also revealed that women bore the brunt of the latest rise in unemployment, as figures showed today the number of female jobseekers has leapt to its highest rate in 23 years.
Two thirds of the 48,000 extra unemployed in the last quarter were women, as Britain’s jobless rate rose for the eighth month in a row.
More than a million women are now unemployed in this country, the highest number in nearly a quarter of a century and a rise of 91,000 over last year, according to the think tank IPPR.
Young workers have also been hit hard by unemployment, with over million aged 16-24 now jobless, and nearly 250,000 unemployed for more than a year.
The total number of those out of work
in the last quarter of 2011 leapt to 2.67 million, a jobless rate of 8.4
per cent, the worst figure since the end of 1995.
Numbers claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance rose by 6,900 in January to 1.6 million, the 11th consecutive monthly increase.
Of the 48,000 out of work in Britain at the end of last year, up to 33,000 are women and the remaining number of over 15,000 are men.
More than 530 workers every day are losing their jobs as Britain’s unemployment crisis deepens, official figures from the Office for National Statistics revealed today.
Between October and December, 48,000 people joined the swelling ranks of 2.67million unemployed people in this country.
This means around one million people have lost their job since the credit crunch struck in August 2007, and face a battle against other desperate jobseekers to find another one.
The resulting clamour for employment means there is an average of almost six people chasing each job vacancy, with record numbers forced to accept part-time work because they could not find a full-time job.
Ministers insisted there were
‘encouraging signs of stability’ in the labour market, but one union
boss today gave a bleaker outlook, describing ‘the worst employment
prospects for Britons since the recession began.’
Other union bosses also rounded on the Coalition in light of the rising unemployment figures
The number of women claiming the
allowance increased by 1,500 last month to 531,700, the highest figure
since the summer of 1995.
Reacting to the figures, Sir Andrew Green, chairman of the
think-tank, Migrationwatch, described the extraordinary increase in
foreign-born workers as ‘quite extraordinary’.
He said: ‘Given the continued increase in the number of British workers who are unemployed, it seems quite extraordinary that some employers are still employing agencies to recruit workers from overseas.’
Recently, the Employment Minister, Chris Grayling, was asked about why one branch of the sandwich chain Pret a Manger appeared to be staffed entirely by foreigners.
He said: ‘It is certainly a situation that I find unacceptable. Of course, this country has benefitted from people coming in from other countries to work.
‘But I want to see more young people in positions in this country and I want…to see them getting jobs that become vacant, rather than people coming into the UK.’
The data also prompted anger from gender equality groups.
Anna Bird, acting chief executive of the Fawcett Society, said: ‘These new figures must act as a wake-up call to Government – we are in a time of crisis.
‘Cuts are threatening women’s equality as jobs dry up, benefits are slashed and vital public services disappear.’
A record number of people are working
part-time because they cannot find full-time jobs – up by 83,000 over
the latest quarter to 1.35 million.
Employment increased by 60,000 to 29
million, mainly due to a rise of 90,000 in the number of part-time
employees to 6.6 million.
Other data from the Office for
National Statistics showed a 22,000 increase in youth unemployment to
1.04 million, which includes 307,000 in full-time education who were
looking for work.
The 48,000 increase in unemployment was the smallest quarterly rise since last summer.
Leap: Unemployment jumped by nearly 50,000 in the quarter to last December, giving the worst figures since 1995
Economic
inactivity, which includes students, long-term sick, people who have
retired early or those who have given up looking for work, fell by
78,000 to 9.29 million, 23 per cent of the working age population.
Average
pay increased by 2 per cent in the year to December, unchanged from the
previous month, although in the public sector it fell by 0.2 per cent
to 1.7 per cent, the lowest figure since records began in 2001.
UNEMPLOYMENT NATIONWIDE BETWEEN OCT AND DEC LAST YEAR
North East 143,000 -4,000 11.2%
North West 319,000 +26,000 9.3%
Yorkshire/Humber 264,000 -10,000 9.9%
East Mids 188,000 +1,000 8.2%
West Mids 247,000 +13,000 9.3%
East 213,000 +3,000 7.0%
London 427,000 +18,000 10.0%
South East 278,000 +2,000 6.3%
South West 165,000 -13,000 6.1%
Wales 134,000 -3,000 9.0%
Scotland 231,000 +16,000 8.6%
Northern Ireland 62,000 no change 7.2%
There were 1.39 million days lost through industrial disputes in the year to last December, the highest figure since 2002.
Around 164,000 workers were made redundant or took voluntary redundancy in the final quarter of last year, up by 17,000 from the three months to September.
The number of job vacancies increased by 11,000 in recent months to 476,000, although this was 21,000 down on a year ago.
The Government said the figures showed that despite continuing economic challenges, the labour market was stabilising.
Minister for Welfare Reform Lord Freud said: ‘The latest figures show some encouraging signs of stability despite the challenging economic climate.
‘With more people in employment and a rise in vacancies, it is clear the private sector is still creating jobs
‘However, we are not complacent. With more people in the labour market we know that competition for those jobs is tough and we will continue to make it our priority to find people work.’
Paul Kenny, general secretary of the GMB union, said: ‘Austerity means 2.67 million people are not working.
‘As it is clear that austerity and deflation as a policy is not working, it is both surprising and shocking that there are so few demands from Tory backbenches, from the CBI, from the City and from the Liberal and Labour parties that the policy be abandoned in favour of sure fire ways of getting people back to work.
PRINCE OF WALES TRUST LAUNCHES JOB INITIATIVE
The
Prince of Wales’s youth charity The Prince’s Trust is launching a jobs
initiative in the West Midlands, where Wolverhampton has one of the
highest youth unemployment rates.
The project will create 100 jobs for unemployed young people who will then try to help a further 100,000 find work.
The new scheme will see youngsters
who have transformed their lives with help from the Trust employed as
‘Job Ambassadors’ to assist other young people.
The Prince will visit the Trust’s
headquarters to unveil the initiative, which is designed as a direct
response to youth unemployment levels, which hit 1.04
million last month.
Martina Milburn, chief executive of
the Trust, said: ‘We know that long-term unemployment can be
demoralising – crushing self-esteem and derailing ambition. The young
people we are employing will have lived through this.
‘They will be able to share their
own experiences with today’s unemployed young people and – crucially –
give them the inspiration, advice and guidance they need to find a job.’
She added: ‘This scheme will make sure an unemployed generation does not become an unemployable one.’
‘So widespread is support for this failed orthodoxy that some Labour groups on councils, at the behest of the leadership, are supporting deflationary pay policies for their own staff.
‘It is just not possible to deflate your way to growth.’
John Salt, of recruitment firm totaljobs.com, said: ‘Britons are facing their worst employment prospects since the recession began.
The UK’s negative Q4 GDP data released last month confirmed the lacklustre growth in the UK economy and this, alongside a backdrop of diminishing demand, has led to nervous employers adapting their ‘wait and see’ approach to the labour market to start cutting their workforces instead.
‘All the more apparent is the widening gap between North and South, with depressed high streets and businesses across the North West and North East struggling to cope with the lack of demand and obstacles to securing finance hindering the North from investing in its workforces.’
TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said: ‘These figures are bad, although thankfully not quite the disaster we saw at the end of last year.
‘With one in three jobseekers looking for work for over a year, and around six unemployed people for every job, the Government’s mantra that there are plenty of jobs out there just doesn’t ring true.
‘It’s encouraging to see a small rise in employment, but this is entirely down to people taking part-time work because there are no full-time jobs available.
‘Any job is better than no job at all, even if it’s on far lower pay and shorter hours, but people cannot afford to do this indefinitely. We desperately need more full-time jobs paying decent wages.’
‘IVE BEEN LEFT ON THE SCRAPHEAP’: COMPUTER EXPERT CAN’T FIND A JOB – DESPITE SENDING OFF 1,500 APPLICATIONS
An unemployed computer expert says he fears being left on the job scrapheap aged just 21 – after being turned down for more than 1,500 jobs.
Daniel Smith sailed through a college IT course and started looking for work – applying for an average of two jobs a day.
After hitting a brick wall, he quickly widened his search to other jobs, but the rejections continued to pour in.
Fruitless search: Computer expert Daniel Smith has hit a brick wall in his search for employment
More than two years later, Daniel has been knocked back for posts in everything from cleaning and catering to shop work.
He said: ‘I feel that I’m stuck in a hole with nowhere to go but deeper in the hole.’ He revealed his plight on the day that government figures showed another rise in unemployment.
The jobless total included 26,000 out-of-work young people, aged 16 to 24 – up 4,800 in a year.
Nationally, the number of unemployed 16 to 24-year-olds hit 1.04m in December, the highest since records began in 1992.
David Cameron pledged to tackle the problem after admitting the number of young people out of work was ‘unacceptably high’.
But Daniel, from Dukinfield, Greater Manchester, said: ‘David Cameron told the population of Britain that they were going to do something better for 16-24 year olds but I don’t see any change.’
Daniel left Ashton Sixth Form College with a Btec national certificate in IT in the summer of 2009.
Since then he has spent just six months in paid employment through the Future Jobs Fund – a government incentive scheme encouraging businesses to employ young people, which has since been scrapped.
Daniel, said: ‘All the employers keep coming back and saying they’ve either had people apply with more experience and that I need to get more.
‘I’ve had maybe one or two job interviews for each month I’ve been unemployed, but so many people are unemployed at the moment that employers can take the best of the best when hundreds of people apply for one job.’
He spends two days a week volunteering for Ashton’s Wooden Canal Boat Society and lives with his mum Barbara, surviving on £50 a week in benefits.
He said: ‘The longer I’m unemployed, the less experience I have as I’ve been out of a job so long. I have qualifications but they are gathering dust as no one wants me.
‘I just have to hope for the best and keep looking. I want to work and I’ll do anything.
‘I would like to see the government introduce something similar to the Future Jobs Fund as that did put a lot of people in employment.’
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Communities of ex-pats thrive away elsewhere,and likewise you can always up sticks to take advantage of cheap housing stock that is up for grabs having been deserted for these shores and elsewhere-not to mention the cheaper cost of living and much less taxation. 12yrs ago I traded a UK terrace for a 14 room hotel with pool quietly positioned on the outskirts of a popular Bulgarian holiday resort and haven’t looked back.
British tradesmen and businessmen/women are here and are living comfortably whilst harmoniously employing and contributing to the local economy. Consider it,life doesn’t have to be miserable.
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As far as IT goes it takes a lot more than some paper qualification to get a good job. You need to really have skills in an area that is currently in demand. IT actually is still one of the eassier sectors to get into. What employers are looking for is simply if you have the skills to the job that needs doing. I used to work with University intern students and they simply did not cut the mustard. All they had done in school was lots of theory, but they had no valualbe practical skills. I can gurantee you if Daniel goes to get certified in an ‘in demand’ skill like Java, .NET languages or Oracle Business inteligence, he’ll get a job quick smart. Carrying around a worthless BTEC is not going to get him very far when employers can get an Msc graduate from India.
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Great start today. 1st post refused. I said that in Spain the nationals got priority over jobs.
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Every one knows where the problem lies, but you will still vote the useless lot back in at the next election.
Do not vote for any existing M.P. or it will never change.
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By the way India never existed before the British educated you mutts. It was just a warring tribal region where you spent your days burning widows. You don’t really believe this, do you? Is your history that bad? In fact, India had a high culture in all the arts, architectture, mathematics and astronomy while the British were still banging each other over the head! Do some research and you’ll find out.
Of course i dont believe what i wrote. Im just giving it back (know what i mean).
However what Britain did give was a language that all indians could converse in (still used today as their offical language). A railway that connected all provinces, a judicial system that was fair and lets not forget democracy.
Dont get me wrong i dont believe we were there doing charity work. Ghandi him self said India could (and did) become a better place because of the British, though im sure he was glad to see the back of us.
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“”It was not a rocket science to realize that once you madly open your borders the unemployment figures will go through the roof.””
Yet more arrant nonsense with absolutely no attempt to explain or justify your outrageous, stupid assertion. A rocket science? It doesn’t even make sense purely from a grammatical standpoint.
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That’s a lot of 16-24 year olds with time on their hands, no hope of buying their own home or of starting a family with some financial security. I feel truly sorry for them. When their despair turns to anger at their betrayal, because that is what it is, what then?
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Margaret Davis, Aldridge, Walsall – Most employers don’t go for experience over youth – have you checked out unemployment figures for all age groups? My daughter works in marketing, they rarely take on over 25s and during the course of her work its rare to meet anyone mature ,bar the owners.My son says its the same where he works, in industrial design, under 25s taken on there too. Seems to me if you have the right qualifications, train in the right areas, focus, then youngsters CAN get work.It takes perseverance and a plan. I would love to retire, but can’t afford to, – and if you consider years ago most women with children weren’t on the job market – they got married, the husband ‘kept’ them…. there are many more people nowadays seeking work, trying to keep themselves, And fewer jobs. Start kids off with the right attitude – you help yourself, nobody owes you a living’ then training for whats in demand. Oh and learn not to ring in sick when you have a hangover
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What goes arround comes arround. Everyone will suffer as the result of uncontrolled immegration in the long term. In times of trouble the masses will look for people to blame and we all know how volitile that can be. You only have to look at Greece.
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