UK Unemployment Rises To 2.67 Million

It's just as hard now to register with a recruitment agency these days as it was to find direct employment with an employer a few years ago? That is how bad it has got!
I'am not a job snob and have been in and out of work since the ninety's,( mostly in of course!)
I was in full time employment recently for 2 years and was pushed out a year ago, now I'am doing casual work which is set at the minumin wage and is very irrregular and sometimes strange hours, but I take any work any where within 20 miles they offer me because I dont know some weeks if I have work the next day or next week or not?

Luckly me and my partner (who works) have low overheads, so are able to do this, but I realise that some people have not got that option to gamble every week/month on income coming in because they or you could lose everything?

Have to go on income support/ jobseekers or have to be in full-time employment and maybe even couples working full-time to make ends just meet?

There doe's not seem to be a realistic imbetween with working and not working with the structure of this country, the social states up to 16 hours / £???? of paid work, but depends on any other living expences and any other benefits you had claimed to be added to that amount £????

I have claimed benefits for short period of times where I have been looking for work, the system has improved slightly over the years but it is a nasty shock for anyone that has been in full-time work all their life, just put it mildly, some of the staff are nasty twisted and judge you like your a criminal, when your've got nothing to hide, hold back forms and information because they dont want to do the extra paper work as I found when my partner had four part-time jobs and was signing on for both of us, they just cant cope with people in that want to work but not in the way they want you to? (do you get it?) and generally power mad, but not all of them!

I have had my say and moan, anyone else???

how can you tell when a government minister is lying...........their mouths move annd sound comes out

These figures don't include people who don't sign on because they are not yet eligible for job seeker's allowance because they are still drawing off their redundancy pay off. It is not just the youth who have been thrown on the scapheap!

... and, the true figure, you'll never, ever, know ...!

Its time to change the political landscape its time to see full employment as the desired outcome again. Yes full employment has its economic draw backs but they are far outweighed by the social benefits.

The economy is in free-fall and nobody's doing anything about it. To think of the standards this generation could have had. Instead, no work, no empowerment, no innovation, no money no jobs, no pension, nothing.

And yet in reality we don't need these things anyway, apart from perhaps the empowerment and innovation. We should orient our economy so that it's technology driven and provides for all, abundant access (renewable energy, collective [vertical] farms). Britain should become a role model in eliminating poverty and inequality.

Lie #2. "Unemployed workers seeking full-time jobs who are forced to accept minimum-wage or lower paying part-time jobs are also not unemployed."
In other words, based on the government's definition ...
If you're a laid-off policewoman delivering newspapers for two hours a day, or ...
If you're a former sales manager, greeting shoppers at ASDA on weekends ...
You're not counted among the jobless!
But if you think that's strange, consider this:
These lies are so enormous and egregious, the government has tried to address the outrage by quietly publishing another unemployment rate
This number is never headlined in the press. And the party in power never mentions it.
Why not? Because it's one of the ugliest and worst-kept secrets of our time.
I'm talking about an official government number that does include some of the part-time and discouraged workers, and that reveals an outrageously high U K. unemployment Figure 6.3 Million

Unemployment in the UK is a disgrace. Our governments past and present are failing our people. The propagation of the myth that immigrants work harder and better than indigenous UK citizens is becoming tiresome. Unscrupulous employers like immigrants because they are cheap (their work quality does not matter a jot).

Personal experience of immigrant workers has shown them to be among the most audacious, unapologetic skivers I have ever known. They do not come here to work; they come for Benefits.

Now we have illegal immigrants from India complaining they cant get (illegal) work because the are being undercut by waves of more recent illegal immigrants

It is astounding that people continue to denigrate our people - the vast, vast majority of whom are actively engaged in seeking work. Their efforts are undermined when Alex Salmond and the Scottish Government continue to actively seek immigrants to take up jobs for which (allegedly) our own people do not have the necessary skills! They are never likely to attain them if foreigners are to be given the work. Salmond's position with regard to the Scottish workforce is bemusing given that he heads a Nationalist party.

The brothers in the STUC are also much to blame by sending delegates to Poland to advise immigrant Poles of their rights in Scotland before they even get here! Pity the comrades have been less than active in supporting the rights of Scottish workers. The awards made by the STUC to these "delegate advisors" for their traitorous efforts rubs salt in an already festering wound.

The TUC is now trumpeting its dismay over the unemployment disaster. It is time they started representing the indigenous working people of the UK, dropped their favouritism for foreigners and got Miliband & Co of its backside and provide the necessary political will to get jobs for our own people.

Our people are the best investment Scotland and the UK have for the future. We should ignore the myths spouted about the superiority of immigrant labour and shun those who denigrate the British workforce.

The economy has been more or less stagnant over the last ten months. Yet the unemployment figures are rising??? I can only assume that people are losing their jobs to ensure executive pay can have a healthy increase without the growth to pay for it. We know that executive pay in FTSE 100 companies have gone from strength to strength even through the recession. Is it not about time we hold companies to account for reckless job losses. They aren't driving efficencies as the savings aren't passed to customers and the money is not passed on to the shareholders as divdends are down in the same period. So the job losses and reduction in expenditure are matched by the increase in expenditure on exec pay and bonuses. Is this not an outragous state of affairs?

Time to get out of this rut, look for jobs and openings in Kiwi Aussie Fihji malaysia Singapore Hong Kong Brazil take my money and family and have a better life ...pound and euro only going to get worse

Everywhere I go in London immigrants are working - supermarkets, shops, cafe's, garages, building. There must be something wrong with our work ethic.

Unemployment is on the rise and official figures will remain above 2 Million for decades to come. If and when the recovery comes it will be jobless...and there is not a single thing any Govt work programme or politician or think tank can do about it.

Just consider how the government is lying to us about jobs in Britain:
Lie #1. "Discouraged workers — unemployed workers who give up looking for jobs — are not really unemployed."
Even a third grader would know that's laughable. If jobs are so hard to find that people are abandoning the search, that's a sign things are actually WORSE, right?
Yes, but that's not how the government counts its headline unemployment number. Every time more people get discouraged, the government's jobless number improves!

We are not alone - this is happening across Europe and further and mainly with young people not being able to find work! The problem in this country is that Labour doubled the size of the public sector, creating unnecessary jobs, at a cost to be paid by the tax payer!

I suppose the dismal failure of the Governments policies and the Eurozone crisis is the fault of the previous Administration too. If you buy a used car .. you either drive it with the faults it has or fix them. You dont keep blaming the guy who owned the car before you. The British public truly have had enough of all the major political parties. They have no imagination and simply cannot grasp the concept of leading by example.

... and so it is under the Tories, and so shall it ever be ...

Bunch of lazy useless bar stewards!

I refer of course to politicians. :-)

the conservatives want high unemployment they like it, high unemployment = lower wages = higher profits for the rich. Its the same with the north they have very few mp's up here so they dont care about it and this about the private sector creating jobs is bollocks. All tory's lie and you can tell when caMORON and his ilk are lying their mouths move

Basically this country is going down the toilet. Where has all the money gone and why is everyone losing their jobs? It is REALLY TERRIBLE. I have never supported the Labour Party but I'm missing them now.

About time we in UK got rid of cam and his con-dems ASAP?