Cut and paste of numbers in situations such as this is not proper analysis, unless it is made clear what each number represents.
As I pointed out in post #13, the UK numbers do not include people on zero-hour contracts, especially people on such contracts and offered relatively low hours. Adding these doubles our roughly unemployment rate relative to Germany, for example, where such contracts are not a feature of employments contracts. The same applies in about a dozen European countries.
https://www.globalworkplaceinsider.c...ts-in-germany/
To use statistics such as these as a measure of the country's financial and employment well being, the measure should have at least three dimensions - employment percentage, worked hours per working-age head and average wage per hour. Another useful measure would be the percentage of people in employment who supplement their income with employment benefits.
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Originally Posted by MGJohn
Many UK careers and jobs exported to the Mainland over the decades, including two of mine.
Still why should I care, I'm alright Jack. I'm off to purchase a nice new BMW. Such purchases help the economy and create many careers and jobs.
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In reality far more to China, India and the far-east.
Opening a thread that describes those who may have a differing viewpoint as "Doom and Gloom Merchants" is an interesting but characteristic approach to "mature debates" by certain individuals.
