Dole Queues Continue To Grow
Unemployment has risen, again. It now stands at a massive 1.72 million people.
The number of people claiming unemployment benefit has risen by the largest amount for almost 16 years, official figures show.
The claimant count leapt by 32,500 to 904,900 in August - far more than had been forecast. It is the seventh consecutive monthly rise and the largest since December 1992…
A total of 138,000 people were made redundant in the three months up to July - an increase of 28,000 on the previous quarter. (The Telegraph)
And of course, this just going to rise, after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the takeover of Merrill Lynch, and the government-sanctioned Lloyds TSB-HBOS merger. The latter is directly down to the government, as otherwise there is no way a merger between two such giants would be allowed - and the government are only interested in protecting Scottish jobs.
Gordo just isn’t working.
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