Unemployment Rises By 38,000

Thanks Obama !

Get him outta there !

Can't wait to see how Cameron et al rejigger this fact so it's the fault of rioters.

Wait... so making massive c.uts in government spending didn't create an economic boom?

I am one of those two million, four hundred and ninety thousand unemployed people.

this just part of the equation that steve hilton loves to see adds more fuel to the english march to disaster captitlism god save the free market

I remember the old black and white billboard posters with a long line of people saying labour isnt working

I bet they wish they just had 1 million unemployed now !!

Maybe the country has too many people for the amount of jobs the economy can generate.
The world added a billion people in the last 12 years and will add another billion in the next 12 years. Limited resources of food, water, oil and jobs are coming head to head with the never ending world population growth. The unrest in the middle east and North Africa give us a picture of what limited resources of food, water, oil and jobs and a growing unemployed population can mean for a country.

The allegation­s of the media, police, politician­s and the wealthy in bed together has reduced public trust in it's institutio­ns. This is not good for society. Ethics in the institutio­ns and individual­s needs to be restored.

It all comes down to branding. Whoever came up with the name job-centre-plus. Surely Job-centre-minus would be far more encouraging.

i can't understand why these figures are so surprising, it's been patently obvious to the rest of the population for months.
you can't fool all of the people all of the time and the people who are fooled some of the time are starting to realise they've been fooled. this leads to frustration and the feeling that direct action is the only choice left.
despite cameron's panic punishment pact i expect much more of the same.

Osborne, as unqualified as he is, kept telling us that the private sector will ride gallantly to our rescue and start creating jobs. Cloud cuckoo land, a myth, an ideology with no foundation whatsoever in truth. Where were these people coming from? Where was the money to invest coming from?

It was nothing but wishful thinking and for that alone he should be taken from office and sat down somewhere with a copy of "Baby's First Guide to Economics" as he doesn't have a single clue.

Stripping local authorities is putting people out of work by the thousand and people feel insecure in their jobs. So rather than trying to buy us out of the financial crisis (consumerism is all we rely on, we don't exactly manufacture or export significantly any more) they are hiding their money in a sock under the mattress and I don't blame them. There is no incentive to spend, limited job security, no light at the end of the tunnel visible.

The country was devastated by the bad acts of the banks. Money we could have used to weather the global storm and keep our people in jobs was squandered - and nothing has changed to stop the banks doing exactly the same thing again...

Britain has to get as many employed as we can to recover. The cost now could be off-set against times of prosperity. Except the money that could have done this, that could have cushioned us in hardship, is gone.

Quite a few will be the sick and disabled kicked off incapacity benefit by ATOS and their pathetically paid-for-results scheme of testing claimants. Those denied benefit will need to claim jobseekers if they lose their status, and the current appeals procedure is totally snowed under. despite this 40% or more of appeals are being allowed, showing just how callous and cruel this system is.

I think we should recheck the numbers something has to be wrong our President said if we passed the stim unemployment wouldnt go over 8%. Aftert he funded shovel ready jobs obama laughed about the fact they werent there. After spending all of that money he realized Bush was the President before him and he handed obama a mess. Didnt hed know this before all of his wasteful spending. He also stated if he couldnt fix the economy in his first 3 years he wouldnt be reelected. As 3 years is approaching hes coming up with no plan just excuses why he couldnt make things better.