One day they’ll be a story where he’s heard telling the truth.
… That or a death rattle.
I’m easy either way.
Might as well just leave the headline as “PM Misleads”
They are not interested in tackling unemployment, manipulating the figures helps hide their lack of action. They do the same thing with immigration statistics. The Tories are not the party of the working people, no matter what they claim or what they offer, they will always be the party of business owners and the rich. It is not in their benefit to help the unemployed or the underemployed, not until they can donate heaps to the Tory party coffers.
I always laugh at these employment statistics, if you do an hour of work a week you’re classified as employed, the job center giving you ‘volunteer’ bullshit classes as employment (probably the most obtuse use of the word ’employed’ ever), Dorothy hitting 60 doing a lunchtime playground watch for an hour counts as ’employed’.
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Propaganda, horseshit.
> When Full Fact first fact checked this claim back in November, we were told that the figure Mr Johnson used referred to the number of workers on employer payrolls. Estimates for December 2021 show there were around 29.5 million payrolled employees in the UK, around 409,000 more than in February 2020 before the start of the pandemic.
Full-fact’s entire basis for their Labour political campaign headline is that he used the phrase “more people in employment” instead of “more employees on the payroll” (which later in the article they describe as “using the statistics accurately”).
This government is insidiously slithering towards Trump levels of corruption, lies and stupidity. I used to laugh at Trump and think “well at least our government isn’t THAT bad”. Well, now they’re that bad.
So if patrolled employees have risen by 400,000 and self employed have dropped by 600,000 it’s not unreasonable to assume that as a lot of self employment opportunities dropped, a lot of these people got themselves a payroll job of some description?
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One day they’ll be a story where he’s heard telling the truth.
… That or a death rattle.
I’m easy either way.
Might as well just leave the headline as “PM Misleads”
They are not interested in tackling unemployment, manipulating the figures helps hide their lack of action. They do the same thing with immigration statistics. The Tories are not the party of the working people, no matter what they claim or what they offer, they will always be the party of business owners and the rich. It is not in their benefit to help the unemployed or the underemployed, not until they can donate heaps to the Tory party coffers.
I always laugh at these employment statistics, if you do an hour of work a week you’re classified as employed, the job center giving you ‘volunteer’ bullshit classes as employment (probably the most obtuse use of the word ’employed’ ever), Dorothy hitting 60 doing a lunchtime playground watch for an hour counts as ’employed’.
​
Propaganda, horseshit.
> When Full Fact first fact checked this claim back in November, we were told that the figure Mr Johnson used referred to the number of workers on employer payrolls. Estimates for December 2021 show there were around 29.5 million payrolled employees in the UK, around 409,000 more than in February 2020 before the start of the pandemic.
Full-fact’s entire basis for their Labour political campaign headline is that he used the phrase “more people in employment” instead of “more employees on the payroll” (which later in the article they describe as “using the statistics accurately”).
This government is insidiously slithering towards Trump levels of corruption, lies and stupidity. I used to laugh at Trump and think “well at least our government isn’t THAT bad”. Well, now they’re that bad.
So if patrolled employees have risen by 400,000 and self employed have dropped by 600,000 it’s not unreasonable to assume that as a lot of self employment opportunities dropped, a lot of these people got themselves a payroll job of some description?