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and here's some more info re the high employment figures BBC Reality Check asked the Office for National Statistics (ONS) whether working just one hour a week was all that was needed to be officially classified as employed? The ONS confirmed that was the case. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46264291
Well @1263 the topic started off about TV licences having to be paid by those over 75 and then went on to tell others (as if they already didn't know) what other tory tricks they get up too. I threw my bit in as it is important to know what other tricks they have got up to since they have been in power. When you are unemployed and you register as unemployed, you are not given the unemployment ...
Although the Tories are in the main to blame for tv licences .It must be the the Director General Tony Hall giving out gossly inflated wages to talentless uncharisismatic planks such as Gary ( walkers crisp) lineker OBE. and Alan Shearer, Both whose wages exceed it is alleged 1million pounds per year plus taxis. PS I'll do it for for Half of that. How many world Corespondents does ...
So to get back bang on topic.......... I wonder if any of the Tory leadership/Prime Minister hopefuls will promise to reinstate the free tv licence to the over 75s?
majororp/lynne What has this to do with this topic.??? Majororp- you should start a new topic header not just fire in something completely different to the topic being discussed.
@majorp - well now, there are full time, secure, well paid jobs and then there are part-time, self employed,zero hour, insecure, badly paid jobs. All count as employment. This link throws some light on why the unemployment figure is low https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/uk-unemployment-jobs-figures-brexit-turmoil-honda-nissan-a8798856.html
There is a pdf file published by the government in May of this year part of which refers to the confusion concerning Uk money and China.
Has anyone ever wondered why unemployment keeps going down?
British government gives China £49.3million in foreign aid despite them having a space programme... and even Beijing can't understand why China became the first country to land a craft on the 'dark side' of the moon Beijing is planning a manned space station by 2022 as part of £3.9billion plans The probe is part of the Communist regime's plan to become a major power ...
Some info on Populism; Populism is an ideology which presents "the people" as a morally good force against "the elite", who are perceived as corrupt and self-serving. Populists differ in how "the people" are defined, but it can be based along class, ethnic, or national lines. Populists typically present "the elite" as comprising the political, economic, cultural, and media establishment, ...