Unemployment has jumped by 60,000 and the number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance has increased at the highest monthly rate for over 15 years, new figures show. The jobless total grew to 1.67 million in the three months to June, the worst for over a year, giving a new unemployment rate of 5.4%, up by 0.2% on the previous quarter.
Total unemployment, including people not eligible for benefit, is now 15,000 higher than a year ago.
The claimant count increased by 20,100 in July to 864,700, the sixth consecutive monthly rise and the highest total since May of last year.
July saw the biggest monthly increase since December 1992, and the number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance is now 10,900 higher than a year ago.
Manufacturing jobs continued to be lost, down by 37,000 in the latest quarter to a record low of 2.88 million.
Vacancies were also down, by 47,000 in the three months to July to 634,900.
Well if they voted Labour then found themselves out of work, then let us hope they have learned a lesson, a hard lesson but a lesson none the less. Not that Labour care as the below comment shows.
Of course as my local MP Paul Flynn stated "...unemployment was our main concern? Now it is not an issue until it is dredged up by the right hon. and hon. piffle artists on the Benches opposite." - So nice to see that they care not a jot about the unemployed. Link: here
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The jobless total grew to 1.67 million in the three months to June, the worst for over a year, giving a new unemployment rate of 5.4%, up by 0.2% on the previous quarter.
That's all without incapacity and disability benefit being near 3 million higher than ten years ago.
All these figures, bad as they are, have to be put into real context, which centres around this Government having fucked it up.
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