Red Rag - Today we saw figures showing unemployment rising to 2.67 million. The highest they have been since.....well, err, the last time the Tories were in power. Another 22,000 of the countries youth are now unemployed taking it to 1.04 million which is the biggest total in history. And the total of JSA claimants rose for the eleventh month in a row with the number of women claiming the benefit rising to 531,700 which is the highest total since 1995 when, err, the Tories were last in power. Those lucky to be in work saw the average earnings rise 2%, compared to inflation of 3.6% means even if you are lucky to be in work you are becoming poorer.
Lord Freud of the Party of the P45 described the figures of showing "encouraging signs of stability". A few days ago arch Thatcherite and ConHome editor told us "if Osborne continues as he is going we have only seen 20% of the cuts, between now and the end of the parliament he will need to push through the other 80%".
The question is will Cameron,Clegg and Osborne break Maggies 3+ million?
For anyone over the age of say 30......are you getting a sense of de ja vu?
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