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October marks UK highest unemployment level in 17 years

Wednesday, December 14th 2011 - 17:04 UTC
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The number of Britons out of work rose to its highest level in more than 17 years in October, and these jobless figures look set to rise further as firms facing the threat of a renewed recession cut back on staff. Read full article

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  • Marcos Alejandro

    At the same time British are delighted subsidizing a few hundred lost rich Brits leaving the good life 8000 miles away in Argentina.
    Are they?

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11999601

    Dec 14th, 2011 - 08:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Raul

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    Dec 14th, 2011 - 08:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • geo

    Britain has lowest level competitiveness ability in EU.

    Britain has lowest levels participation rates in EU :
    Males : 55 % ....Females : 46 %
    even lower than Greece !!

    bad ..very bad .. not posssible assimilate a country like UK !!

    Dec 14th, 2011 - 09:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • lsolde

    @1Marcos,
    “Peter Preston, former editor of the Guardian”, lost interest at this point.
    The Guardian is a leftwing red-ragging communist newspaper.
    l wonder how much money he has been paid by Argentine lntelligence to make his traitorous remarks.
    Anyway, once oil production gets into full swing, money will not be a problem & it won't cost the British government a penny.

    Dec 15th, 2011 - 09:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • stick up your junta

    @1 Yep Preston the coward,got a lot in common with the Argies

    A source of great regretPeter Preston edited the Guardian when Foreign Office clerk Sarah Tisdall was jailed for leaking secrets. He explains why he strongly believes that journalists must put pragmatism before principle

    Dec 15th, 2011 - 12:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    Years of New Labour profligacy coming home to roost.

    Govts. can buy jobs, like NL did in Newcastle to prop up the Labour vote when they 'Tax & Spend' as they did for years.

    Now the ordinary people of the UK have got to work and pay taxes for 'Bambi Blair' the incompetent Brown and their sycophants past lifestyles.

    Unfortunately, unemployment will get worse in the meantime before it gets better.

    Dec 15th, 2011 - 01:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marcos Alejandro

    Isolde, That video is from The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) not The Guardian.

    Dec 15th, 2011 - 04:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • stick up your junta

    Also from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

    Dying from hunger in food-exporting Argentina
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12973543

    Dec 15th, 2011 - 05:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Yuleno

    We have it here don't we.UK has monetary problems inherited from the previous regime.But this regime is a minority and the majority didn't vote for them
    Those who say Europe is in a crisis of it's own making,nothing to do with UK,need to explain why unemployment is rising.Was the UK a contributor to poor economic management and therefore also to blame or not.
    Are those who don't want to work to be deducted, along with those not looking for work, and then those without skills and those under 1.7metres all to be deducted.Well statistically there's only 3.5% unemployed,the lowest since people last voted ; )

    Dec 15th, 2011 - 05:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • lsolde

    Marcos, l don't disagree it was from the BBC.
    But Peter Preston's views are highly suspect as he was the editor of a commo newspaper. The man is a traitor. Everything he said was soaked up by you Argentines without question because its what you wanted to hear.
    You can have him.
    We don't need him weakening our gene pool.

    Dec 15th, 2011 - 09:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • stick up your junta

    The mans a coward

    In 1983, the paper was at the centre of a controversy surrounding documents regarding the stationing of cruise missiles in Britain that were leaked to The Guardian by civil servant Sarah Tisdall. The paper eventually complied with a court order to hand over the documents to the authorities, which resulted in a six-month prison sentence for Tisdall,[26] though she served only four. “I still blame myself”, said Peter Preston who was the editor of The Guardian at the time, but he went on to argue that the paper had no choice because it ”believed in the rule of law

    Dec 15th, 2011 - 10:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Malvinero1

    Anyway, once oil production gets into full swing, money will not be a problem & it won't cost the British government a penny.
    AHahahaha is- olde! Do you think we care?.....Just buzz off and get the independence from uk....meanwhile do not tell Argentina what to do.....

    Dec 16th, 2011 - 04:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Yuleno

    10# Everything he said was soaked up by you Argentines without question because its what you wanted to hear.
    Isn't that the british malady that you easily recognise in every criticism of the British.I know it is.
    Which part of it didn't you like(a)an argentine posting it,(b)the state media being the vehicle of transmission.
    Your choice and I'm sure you've already made it.(paranoia)

    Dec 16th, 2011 - 08:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • lsolde

    @13Yuleno,
    Like sr Think, you presume too much.
    Are you really, really sure, Yuleno?
    Anyway, l don't care what you think, but l'll give you something for free to mull over.
    The Falklands are ours & you'll never get your thieving hands on them.

    Dec 17th, 2011 - 10:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Yuleno

    No #14 we are happy to negotiate the return of las Malvinas.You sound upset about something,Isolde.
    What do you think of Hugh O'Shaunessy reporting for the Guardian?
    Incidentally,did you see the employment situation in USA is improving

    Dec 17th, 2011 - 07:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • lsolde

    l am not upset, Yuleno.
    We will be happy to live our lives without Argentina.
    l only read the Guardian rarely & then only to see what devilment the communists are up to.
    Forewarned is forearmed.
    The USA has to improve, it has a lot of resources in material & people.

    Dec 17th, 2011 - 10:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Yuleno

    Glad you are not upset.Try waving a wand and wish there was no Argentina.It won't come true because wishing doesn't make things happen.

    Dec 18th, 2011 - 01:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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