East Lancashire unemployment figures fall (From Lancashire Telegraph)

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  hunter3062 wrote:
  not a true stat as it dont take into account the number of migrant workers moving to pastures greener.niether does it show how many have had benefits stopped due to fraud.those claiming esa and income support are neither counted. false figures once again..

  As Churchill once said, lies, damned lies and statistics..
  
  Nor does it take into account the numbers that have been pushed towards pointless college courses that do nothing to improve employment prospects.
  Whilst I agree with the literacy, numeracy and spoken English ones, I fail to see the point of teaching by rote, a course on how to complete an application form.
  There is no longer funding for people who wish to upgrade thier skill set nor achieve something as simple as a fork lift truck license, as used to be the case not many years ago.
  
  Would love to have a life on the dole but as I lack the necessary qualification in 'application form completion', I have no chance.
  
  Am utterly convinced that this Gov't is terrified of the jobless numbers reaching that well known and notorius figure of '1 in 10', as happened the last time they had the watch.
  Con Gov'ts love to quote statistics as a method of de-humanising the complete tragedy of wasted lives in unemployment.
  How can it be that someone is capable of being unemployed for over 12 months in this country? Surely it is a duty incumbent upon the Gov't to remedy this with an incentive scheme via tax/national insurance waivers to allow an employer to give valid work to someone.
  Instead of taking a £1Million donations to fund political parties, why not ask if a similar amount is not used to fund a worker?
  Statisically, £1M will fund 40 people on a salary of £25k per annum or if we take the whole Conservative donations received last year, £16M, this would mean that 640 people were gifted work.
  As the salary is at that level, they would no longer be a burden upon the State but be contributing both to the GDP (the national wealth), paying 23% of income back to the Treasury and 20% in VAT when they spend what they have left.
  If that isn't a win-win situation, then I don't know what is one."
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