| 2026 Unemployment 09:53 - Jan 9 with 4933 views | JACKMANANDBOY |
My son spoke to a recruitment consultant yesterday who works for one of the big UK consultancies. She said that the number of vacancies she is being asked to source for has plummeted to the levels seen in COVID.
A couple of conversations I've had with someone looking for a job and a guy that employs around 80 people back this up, finding a graduate job in the North East of England is very difficult. People are sticking with their jobs in South Wales, the employer has seem staff turnover almost stop in the last three months, he is using overtime a lot more to cover additional demand rather than take people on. The staff profile in his business means his NI bill has doubled in the last year.
With higher employment taxes, increases in business rates, increases in IHT for family businesses, the tightening of employee rights and the possible use of of AI, employers are going to think very carefully about hiring.
Unemployment is going to increase this year. [Post edited 9 Jan 14:36]
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| 2026 Unemployment on 16:30 - Jan 10 with 1383 views | Gwyn737 |
| 2026 Unemployment on 16:18 - Jan 10 by Whiterockin |
You can also throw into the mix that in years gone by there have been big employers locally paying large final salary pensions with many also receiving redundancy payments coming up to retirement age. I'm thinking about BP, Fords and to a certain extent The steelworks. That's a massive amount of bank of mum and dad disappearing from around here. |
It’s why I get frustrated when I hear people say “but that young person a new phone” or “they should cancel Netflix”.
These things won’t touch the sides. |  | | |
| 2026 Unemployment on 16:39 - Jan 10 with 1378 views | Whiterockin |
| 2026 Unemployment on 16:30 - Jan 10 by Gwyn737 |
It’s why I get frustrated when I hear people say “but that young person a new phone” or “they should cancel Netflix”.
These things won’t touch the sides. |
It's true but youngsters need to learn to live within their means and not expect everything as a given right. Work and save needs to be the mantra, not buy now and pay later. Not all take things for granted but many do, just because your friend has something don't expect the same or better unless you can afford it. |  | | |
| 2026 Unemployment on 17:06 - Jan 10 with 1344 views | Gwyn737 |
| 2026 Unemployment on 16:39 - Jan 10 by Whiterockin |
It's true but youngsters need to learn to live within their means and not expect everything as a given right. Work and save needs to be the mantra, not buy now and pay later. Not all take things for granted but many do, just because your friend has something don't expect the same or better unless you can afford it. |
That’s true.
Mind you, I dread to think what I’d have done in my early 20s if Klarna was about 😩 | | | |
| 2026 Unemployment on 23:19 - Jan 10 with 1262 views | max936 |
| 2026 Unemployment on 16:39 - Jan 10 by Whiterockin |
It's true but youngsters need to learn to live within their means and not expect everything as a given right. Work and save needs to be the mantra, not buy now and pay later. Not all take things for granted but many do, just because your friend has something don't expect the same or better unless you can afford it. |
Not all earn enough to bring up a family and pay a mortgage/rent etc and save for their old age.
People work because that's they way they've be brought up to do, but not all have the necessary skills/ capability to get the jobs to enable them to earn enough money to help them in later life and no way should pensioners pay tax either they've more than paid their way and pensionable age should be considered on the work that people have done all their lives, manual workers who have had physical jobs all their lives should be able to retire earlier to help their physical and mental wellbeing. |  | | |
| 2026 Unemployment on 13:06 - Jan 15 with 1119 views | JACKMANANDBOY |
I see that Khan has gone early saying AI is causing unemployment in London. | |
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| 2026 Unemployment on 13:19 - Jan 15 with 1101 views | Whiterockin |
| 2026 Unemployment on 13:06 - Jan 15 by JACKMANANDBOY |
I see that Khan has gone early saying AI is causing unemployment in London. |
It's obvious AI will affect employment, one of the biggest sectors to be hit will be public services. | | | |
| 2026 Unemployment on 16:36 - Jan 15 with 1041 views | JACKMANANDBOY |
| 2026 Unemployment on 13:19 - Jan 15 by Whiterockin |
It's obvious AI will affect employment, one of the biggest sectors to be hit will be public services. |
With a high percentage of public sector workers in Wales, I am sure the Senedd will have an excellent strategic plan to manage the transition. | |
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| 2026 Unemployment on 16:49 - Jan 15 with 1020 views | Dr_Winston |
There are a lot of processing/decision making public sector jobs in Wales that are under serious threat.
Of course, what will probably happen is that they will be kept on doing non-jobs rather than laid off. |  |
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| 2026 Unemployment on 17:05 - Jan 15 with 1002 views | Whiterockin |
| 2026 Unemployment on 16:36 - Jan 15 by JACKMANANDBOY |
With a high percentage of public sector workers in Wales, I am sure the Senedd will have an excellent strategic plan to manage the transition. |
The Senedd won't give a dam they won't have to pay the redundancy or benifits Westminster will. There stands the biggest issue with devolution. | | | |
| 2026 Unemployment on 09:41 - Jan 20 with 781 views | Whiterockin |
Less "working people" for Starmer to look after. | | | |
| 2026 Unemployment on 07:48 - Feb 17 with 402 views | Dr_Winston |
Highest since the Pandemic..
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/liv
Whouda thought that making it expensive for businesses to hire staff and operate in general would negatively impact employment? | |
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| 2026 Unemployment on 08:11 - Feb 17 with 364 views | felixstowe_jack |
| 2026 Unemployment on 07:48 - Feb 17 by Dr_Winston |
Highest since the Pandemic..
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/liv
Whouda thought that making it expensive for businesses to hire staff and operate in general would negatively impact employment? |
All a direct result of Reeves huge business tax rises in last two budgets. 100,000 people lost their jobs last month due to labour. Another 100,000 added to benefits bill. | |
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| 2026 Unemployment on 08:19 - Feb 17 with 359 views | Dr_Winston |
| 2026 Unemployment on 08:11 - Feb 17 by felixstowe_jack |
All a direct result of Reeves huge business tax rises in last two budgets. 100,000 people lost their jobs last month due to labour. Another 100,000 added to benefits bill. |
Imagine the looks on their faces when they realise that their tax rises have actually resulted in a decrease in tax revenue.
If only that was a well established and understood economic reality that people had pointed out to them before they undertook such an idiotic approach. | |
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| 2026 Unemployment on 08:36 - Feb 17 with 347 views | JACKMANANDBOY |
| 2026 Unemployment on 08:19 - Feb 17 by Dr_Winston |
Imagine the looks on their faces when they realise that their tax rises have actually resulted in a decrease in tax revenue.
If only that was a well established and understood economic reality that people had pointed out to them before they undertook such an idiotic approach. |
The majority of people work in small businesses and most small businesses are marginally profitable. They seem to think every business is Amazon. | |
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| 2026 Unemployment on 09:28 - Feb 17 with 317 views | Dr_Winston |
| 2026 Unemployment on 08:36 - Feb 17 by JACKMANANDBOY |
The majority of people work in small businesses and most small businesses are marginally profitable. They seem to think every business is Amazon. |
It's just the complete lack of understanding of anything regarding how economies work you only find on the left.
I've seen people grumbling now about Tesco. About how none of their staff should be on UC because of their "gargantuan" profits.
Firstly, Tesco's profit margin, in line with most of the supermarkets, is about 3%. That's tiny and gives very little margin for error. Secondly, a lot of their staff are part time. Parents, people in marriages where one only works PT to help with childcare. That's what UC was designed for. | |
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| 2026 Unemployment on 09:42 - Feb 17 with 304 views | onehunglow |
| 2026 Unemployment on 09:28 - Feb 17 by Dr_Winston |
It's just the complete lack of understanding of anything regarding how economies work you only find on the left.
I've seen people grumbling now about Tesco. About how none of their staff should be on UC because of their "gargantuan" profits.
Firstly, Tesco's profit margin, in line with most of the supermarkets, is about 3%. That's tiny and gives very little margin for error. Secondly, a lot of their staff are part time. Parents, people in marriages where one only works PT to help with childcare. That's what UC was designed for. |
You might be aware I was Tesco manager , and a young one at that
That time Jack and Tessa Cohen were still periferally involved in the business
Cohen even though having handed over control was still influential and every penny counted
Stock stortages at stock take , till shortages , damage to stock , too much stockholding ; everything brought pain to store managers
They regularly checked the bins on butchery departments to analyse if meat deposited there could have been put into mince
Bones were weighed and checked as they were collected to make into whatever
Like they say Every little helps | |
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| 2026 Unemployment on 09:47 - Feb 17 with 302 views | onehunglow |
| 2026 Unemployment on 09:28 - Feb 17 by Dr_Winston |
It's just the complete lack of understanding of anything regarding how economies work you only find on the left.
I've seen people grumbling now about Tesco. About how none of their staff should be on UC because of their "gargantuan" profits.
Firstly, Tesco's profit margin, in line with most of the supermarkets, is about 3%. That's tiny and gives very little margin for error. Secondly, a lot of their staff are part time. Parents, people in marriages where one only works PT to help with childcare. That's what UC was designed for. |
But it could be they do understand but ignore it as their political mantra overrides all
They know best
Time was when Labour politicians genuinely fought to make the manual worker’ s lives better
That ended years ago
Today , the likes of Starmer Cooper Reeves and Lammy are light years away from the Plebs | |
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| 2026 Unemployment on 10:44 - Feb 17 with 268 views | JACKMANANDBOY |
| 2026 Unemployment on 09:28 - Feb 17 by Dr_Winston |
It's just the complete lack of understanding of anything regarding how economies work you only find on the left.
I've seen people grumbling now about Tesco. About how none of their staff should be on UC because of their "gargantuan" profits.
Firstly, Tesco's profit margin, in line with most of the supermarkets, is about 3%. That's tiny and gives very little margin for error. Secondly, a lot of their staff are part time. Parents, people in marriages where one only works PT to help with childcare. That's what UC was designed for. |
What I don't hear is that there about 5 million small businesses in the UK, they employ about 60 percent of the private sector workforce, the people who make the money to fund the public sector, all those doctors, nurses and teachers etc
The average profit for small business is about £12,000 a year. The whole economy is finely balanced.
The lefty loonies think that businesses are awash with money, dumb, dumb, dumb!
If you add in medium sized enterprises then that is 99 percent of the private sector workforce by number, these are not billionaires or tech moguls but people balancing the businesses' books month to month.
The recent tax and employment law changes are ruining the economy, there are going to have to be more u turns. [Post edited 17 Feb 10:47]
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| 2026 Unemployment on 10:55 - Feb 17 with 245 views | onehunglow |
| 2026 Unemployment on 10:44 - Feb 17 by JACKMANANDBOY |
What I don't hear is that there about 5 million small businesses in the UK, they employ about 60 percent of the private sector workforce, the people who make the money to fund the public sector, all those doctors, nurses and teachers etc
The average profit for small business is about £12,000 a year. The whole economy is finely balanced.
The lefty loonies think that businesses are awash with money, dumb, dumb, dumb!
If you add in medium sized enterprises then that is 99 percent of the private sector workforce by number, these are not billionaires or tech moguls but people balancing the businesses' books month to month.
The recent tax and employment law changes are ruining the economy, there are going to have to be more u turns. [Post edited 17 Feb 10:47]
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Think it was Thatcher who said that the trouble with socialism is that you run out of everyone else’s money | |
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| 2026 Unemployment on 10:58 - Feb 17 with 246 views | majorraglan |
| 2026 Unemployment on 09:28 - Feb 17 by Dr_Winston |
It's just the complete lack of understanding of anything regarding how economies work you only find on the left.
I've seen people grumbling now about Tesco. About how none of their staff should be on UC because of their "gargantuan" profits.
Firstly, Tesco's profit margin, in line with most of the supermarkets, is about 3%. That's tiny and gives very little margin for error. Secondly, a lot of their staff are part time. Parents, people in marriages where one only works PT to help with childcare. That's what UC was designed for. |
In relation to the second point, quite a few employers (including Tesco) now employ staff on part time contracts for example 4 hours per day but actually require the staff to work “compulsory overtime” in some cases up to and beyond 37.5 hours a week. This means if the staff report sick etc they only get paid their contracted hours, it also makes getting a mortgage more difficult as the contracted hours income etc is so low. Annual Leave payments will also be reduced in comparison to a full time worker.
Part time work suits some, as do zero hour contracts, but there are also potentially massive pitfalls.
There are good and bad employers out there. | | | |
| 2026 Unemployment on 11:34 - Feb 17 with 222 views | JACKMANANDBOY |
| 2026 Unemployment on 09:28 - Feb 17 by Dr_Winston |
It's just the complete lack of understanding of anything regarding how economies work you only find on the left.
I've seen people grumbling now about Tesco. About how none of their staff should be on UC because of their "gargantuan" profits.
Firstly, Tesco's profit margin, in line with most of the supermarkets, is about 3%. That's tiny and gives very little margin for error. Secondly, a lot of their staff are part time. Parents, people in marriages where one only works PT to help with childcare. That's what UC was designed for. |
Tesco is a big business, 99 percent of private sector workers are in small and medium sized businesses.
I agree that Tesco has a typical small retail margin, there is room to tighten up on some aspects of the part time full timers, which has already been partly addressed. But Tesco is not under threat from the current moronic legislation, it can put up its prices.
The jobs under threat are in small enterprises that struggle to make any profit whatsoever.
The diversionary tactic of painting out how much large employers make is ignorant at best. The big risk to the economy is the pressure on small businesses. I understand that many on government are career politicians or civil servants but that does not prevent them from doing basic research into what they are managing. [Post edited 17 Feb 11:36]
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| 2026 Unemployment on 11:47 - Feb 17 with 209 views | Dr_Winston |
| 2026 Unemployment on 11:34 - Feb 17 by JACKMANANDBOY |
Tesco is a big business, 99 percent of private sector workers are in small and medium sized businesses.
I agree that Tesco has a typical small retail margin, there is room to tighten up on some aspects of the part time full timers, which has already been partly addressed. But Tesco is not under threat from the current moronic legislation, it can put up its prices.
The jobs under threat are in small enterprises that struggle to make any profit whatsoever.
The diversionary tactic of painting out how much large employers make is ignorant at best. The big risk to the economy is the pressure on small businesses. I understand that many on government are career politicians or civil servants but that does not prevent them from doing basic research into what they are managing. [Post edited 17 Feb 11:36]
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I certainly don't disagree with you. All all levels in the UK entrepreneurship is becoming harder and harder, be it through taxation or legislation. | |
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| 2026 Unemployment on 12:38 - Feb 17 with 172 views | onehunglow |
When someone takes a risk and has the balls to start up a business , if they become wealthy , immediately they are kicked by those without having those attributes
It’s envy | |
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