THE previous Government were very good at fiddling the unemployment figures to their advantage, but this Government goes even further.
If you work one hour a week, you are not unemployed and, therefore, by this subtle change, the Government can boast that they have wiped 200,000 off the jobless total.
J. LEE, Ramsgreave Drive,
Blackburn.
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