If unemployment is 1.5 million now and five million under the tories?

Question

how come everyone thinks the tories will create more employment and lower taxes.

unemployment under the tories was 11.9 per cent in scotland 14.per cent in wales and 9.8 per cent in england this excludes n.ireland where no official figures released but believed to be 33 per cent of the catholic population.

steve uk i would change jobs mate 12.5 per cent in 20 years your having a laugh.

the sick ,students and pensioners were never part of the stats so we dont count them now.

lorne your figures dont stand up to be level with 1991 we now have 3.4 million disability benefit claimants who would also get incapacity plus the single mothers plus the children plus the pensioners you now give us a working percentage of less than 35 per cent go back to school and learn to count.

Answer 1

i think it could only be 1.5 million now, because the labour government arent counting the single parents, the sick etc in their unemployment lists, those on college course too

to be able to differentiate between the 2 amounts, one must understand the basic criteria of how they tally their totals

Answer 2

Please get your info straight. Over 2 million people who would be claiming JSA are actually on Incapacity Benefit, because the government made the grounds for IB nonspecific and shifted them. Secondly, when I left school in the early 1980s, I joined an insurance company as a clerk on £8.5K p/a, and the average local house price was £22k, today 20 years of inflation later, the starting wage for a clerk in the same company at the same office is £9.5K p/a and the house price £75K. More people are in work, but the pay is much lower. More people are on the brink of poverty, and labour has instigated over 50 tax rises in 10 years, including putting VAT on household fuel and food.
The Tories have always striven for tax cuts, so would look after that side of things, however, I still wouldn't vote for them, nor Gordon 'I wasn't in favour of the war, now it's unpopular & I might come into power' Brown.

Answer 3

We now have around 5million people officially out of work, or on single parent and disability benefit rather than working. Official Unemployment has been rising over the last two years, now standing at 1.7 million. The UK has the highest proportion of all 23 OECD countries of unemployed men between the ages of 25 and 49. 20 times as many people claim Disability Benefit today compared to 1997.

The message to those who say competitiveness is just a businessman’s way of saying he wants to make more profit, is that it lies at the core of whether you have a job or not, and whether you can find a well paid job.

Answer 4

I don't know where you got the 5 million statistic. I'm guessing it was from the last time they were in power?
Well times do change, if we do switch back to the Tories it doesn't mean the unemployment rates will go up. Perhaps they can lower it even more, even thought they don't have a good track record. I still think labour is best for the working man. Conservative don't appeal to the average working-class person, perhaps this is their attempt?
Regardless, they have to say they will lower the rates, they can't exactly say unemployment rates will go up under their rule!

Answer 5

Don't always believe the statistics you are given,the government manipulates them in many different ways to suit their own ends.Who's gonna tell you the true size of the 'black' economy under labour rule?

Answer 6

5 million would be nearly 10 percent of the population of the united kingdom, you exaggerate or fabricate.