Dawlish Discussion

Been away in London for a few days (anyone want to know what a local Dawlish Ukiper said to me about that please let me know 'cos I'll be only too pleased to tell) and came back to see a request from MC that we should perhaps have more local and less national politics.

Happy to oblige Michael.

I see in this week's Dawlish Post that the number of Job Seekers in Teignbridge bucked the national trend and increased in December to 1,102 up from 1,071 the previous month. The Dawlish Post asked our MP to comment on these figures and she replied thus: "Unemployed  claimants in Newton Abbot constituency Dec - 2012, 1,139. Unemployed claimaints Newton Abbot constituency December 2013 -829".  

Ahem! a discrepancy in those figures? Guess it'll have to be put down to a difference in the area covered by Teignbridge Distrrict Council and the area covered by Newton Abbot parliamentary constituency..........

Also and on the same page (5) there's an article about how very nearly 400 people applied for the 100 or so jobs available at the new Waitrose due to open in Teignmouth in the next few months. 

(And then there's the London economy...............but as London isn't Dawlish...............and therefore isn't local........I'd better not say anymore...........)       

Thank you Lynne, but what is the point you're actually wanting us to discuss?  

The first figures compare unemployment in Teignbridge in December 2013 to the unemployment in Teignbridge in November 2013

The second set of figures compares the number in the Newton Abbot constituency for December 2013 to the same figure for December 2012.  As you say this figure does not include parts of Teignbridge such as Chudleigh, Bovey Tracey, Buckfastleigh and Ashburton which are in the Mid Devon Constituency

Im not surprised so many people are applying to work at Waitrose, they are a very good employer.  Of course we don't know how many of the 400 are already in other jobs and looking for better conditions, as opposed to those who are unemployed

Goes to show how you have to look behind the un/employment figures that are published in the press.

Here's what Channel 4 news has to say on employment in London and employment elsewhere in the country.

http://www.channel4.com/news/london-north-south-divide-cities

(My point being, just in case you wondered, is that just because London in particular is creating jobs that doesn't necessarily hold true for other parts of the country). So......for example........if there is a government announcement that X number of jobs have been created it doesn't necessarily follow that the economy, in the country as a whole, is on the mend.