all three main parties have now failed the british people . A vote for the bnp will put british people first in jobs , housing and taxes . You cant beat that but you can VOTE FOR IT

It,s OK David said the private sector will be able to take up the slack. What are we all worrying about.

the 2.67m is a massive underestimate of the numbers, there are millions more not earning anywhere near a living wage

time the poor, unemployed, low waged, disabled, sick, young and old got together and organised themselves into a political movement to fight for their rights against the vested interests, the political elite and the established order...

oh wait that happened a hundred years ago, it was called the Labour Movement and the Political wing was the Labour Party

shame that the Left in Britain has abandoned millions and millions of the most vulnerable in our country to chase the votes of the comfortably off

I feel so depressed at the state of the country

have said it before , the 20% increase in population from immigration has taken jobs that pre 1997 UK people could have taken . The desperate situation we find ourselves in is the direct result of labour imposing their will on the people they were elected to serve , the damage they have done will take decades to reverse .

We've known this for a long time, the government keeps on lying and covering up true figures because they know thered be a massive uproar publicly, with the riots and protests last year this sort of thing admitted to by them would just create greater tension. They are so out of touch with the people theyre supposed to be "leaders" of and so oblivious to their problems that this sort of thing doesnt even touch their world, theyre just ready to keep draining everything they can get away with out of britain to give to other countries and foreign companies along with their rich friends..its sickening

This is a worldwide problem. The future does not need so many workers, So what to do?

Here in the USA in 1911 there were 70% of people working in something related to agriculture. Today that is only 3%. There is no way back.

Non-farm work is now facing the same issues. What will we do with 80 or 90 percent of unemployed people in the future? It could be that level of unemployment in the future? The Torries and the Liberals and American Republicans and Democrats have no solution to the future because they prefer to pretend that it is not occurring.

America and England could re-claim some jobs by not using China and India as their factory space but that would be temporary. This requires something other than wishful thinking about job creation and get down to deciding what are we going to do. No?

Wow can the media get their FACTS str8, one minute unemployment has decreased and the next its at an all time high?!?!?

Can't be both and don't appease ANY political party with those bogus'd up numbers.....Damn

The job market is showing signs of stability, is that code for its just about where the government would like it to be, maybe just a few more to take it to the levels Thatcher’s government thought was about right. A large labour pool equal s a scared and under paid employees, bliss for unscrupulous employers.
Numbers in part time work as risen by 83000, some of them have taken part time work to replace the full time permanent work they lost, reducing the over all employment figures, good for the government, but still leaving people struggling.
The unemployment figures are far worse than they seem as they are based from October to December a period where employers usually look to recruit for Christmas, this goes part way to explaining the rise in part time work for the period, some of these jobs will go when January is included in the figures, as pubs, restaurants, shops and manufacturing companies reduce there requirements after Christmas
And before anybody says unemployment is bound to rise there are too many of us, the larger the population in well paid work the larger demand, and the larger the demand more in work and the circle goes on. Put simply if the population in well paid work was 5 million only 5 million would create demand, if it was 10 million 10 million would create demand each person buying one widget 5 million widgets per year would rise to 10 million.

Wanna create jobs? Lots of jobs? Wanna actually produce something again, in this country? Then free the weed. We could create millions of new jobs transitioning to hempfuel production, ending our dependence on foreign oil, saving the planet from global warming, and providing a renewable fuel source that we could market to the world. Right now, we pay farmers 'not' to farm on about 6% of existing farmland. That's about 90 million acres, enough to produce all of our energy needs for the entire country. Then consider that we have another 1/2 a billion acres lying fallow, or unused. That's enough to produce and market to the entire world. And we are the only nation of the world with the agricultural capability to achieve this. CAN YOU SPELL M-O-N-O-P-O-L-Y?

Read more, here:   
http://www.hemphasis.net/Fuel-Energy/fuel.htm

and here:
http://www.hempcar.org/ford.shtml

So many jobs have been lost for good. As technology changes our world we can only change with it or be left behind. Technology has eliminated alot of the human element in the workplace. What use to take ten men to do a job now only takes one computer.

   Great  Britain  is a worst case example of the destruction of a democracy and  performing people as the oligarchy takes root and spreads their tentacles in every  facet of existence.  Teh citizenry gradually wither and atrophy.