Council results

[Dorcus]

Re: Council results

Or living of a good public sector pension.

Or living off a spectacularly good private pension and investments. All sequestered from humble working people of course.

[North Cardiff Blue]

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Looks grim for the tories in blue so far, but the tories in red are doing well.

Conservative reserves will win the next election, not poor old Corbyn and Abbott

I don't think anyone will notice, they'll be 90% the same.

[North Cardiff Blue]

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According to the definition Organ posted (but then ignored) unemployed means someone of working age who is actively seeking paid work.

I do lots of work but none of it is paid and none of it is covered by a contract of employment.

I am not unemployed.

Technically, people have their own definitions, as long as you are happy who cares?

[Eric Cartman]

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Yeah unemployed isn't literally without a job, it's looking for a job but not having one. I may be wrong, but the definition is pretty standard across the world I think.

In short, the UK does NOT have an unemployment problem. This is really good news.

We do however have something of an under employment problem. Lots of people not working but not entirely sure why. This is why the Govt are trying to lure many older workers back into the workforce.

I guess it's what happens when you make policy decisions which deliberately hand millions of people pretty substantial property wealth. They can just move somewhere cheaper and give up work in their 50's.

[az city]

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Concerning UK unemployment, this BBC article from March is an eye-opener. Unemployment: Who are the millions of Britons not working? - https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52660591

It says, 'about a quarter of people of working-age - around 10 million people - don't currently have jobs,' then later on, 'officially, about 1.3 million people in the UK were unemployed.'

Effectively then, there's really approaching 8 times more working-age people who are unemployed than what the official figures - which is defined and manipulated by government setting a very narrow criteria - would have us believe.

You don't understand how labour force accounting works.

[jon1959]

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Technically, people have their own definitions, as long as you are happy who cares?

It was a response to Organ Morgan's post claiming there was an eye opening revelation in a BBC article that claimed there are approx 10 million working age people in the UK without jobs but only 1.3 million unemployed. The discussion is all about official definitions and the real levels of unemployment - nothing to do with our 'own definitions' or whether anyone is happy, or who cares.