More records broken by Labour.

[Mottie]

Well, Rachel was right with her further and faster promise, wasn’t she. Further and faster into the shït!

UK unemployment rate hits near five-year high as wage growth slows - live updates

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the figures reflected "weak hiring activity", but also that more people out of work are now looking for jobs.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Murdochcat]

In fairness to Reeves she did go on about growth - but it seems the growth she is delivering is the wrong type

 

[motorbiking]

Growth in the benefits bill, growth in unemployment.

Labour the party of working people

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Yet they're still going ahead with all the increased employment "rights", which will make things far far worse.

I run a small one-man business. I've considered expanding it, employing people, getting premises etc. It could work. It had been at the back of my mind for a few years. Since labour landed, absolutely no way whatsoever. I'd end up with someone on sick leave from day 2 with some form of imaginary sadness and another claiming wrongful dismmissal as I said something in the wrong tone of voice. I'm a tiny microcosm of what's going on across the country.

The NI rises was a direct tax on jobs, taking an extra £600++ per employee from companies, the outlandish minimum wage rises made things worse, now they're making companies terrified of the consequences of hiring anyone at all.

Labour have never understood unintended conequences. For every right-sounding action there's an equal and opposite economic reaction.

Recession time.

 

[Mottie]

I'd end up with someone on sick leave from day 2 with some form of imaginary sadness

When Mrs Mottie left her NHS typist job last year she was replaced by by 'Blue', a 21 year old male who, by sheer coincidence belonged to the same happy clappy church as one of the managers. He lasted two weeks before chucking a sickie. He’s still on sick leave now and he started last October.