UK Economy suffers Triple Blow

[quoonbeatz]

no worries. yanks don't get subtle humour either.

[Paul Waine]

no worries. yanks don't get subtle humour either.

Hi Quoonbeatz, surely that's not true. Take a look at US politics for a start. Then there's gun laws. And, the tech giants....

Lot's of great things in that "near continent" called the United States of America. More diversity than we'd ever find across the whole of Europe - even though some parts of the US aren't great on diversity...

[Imploding Turtle]

no worries. yanks don't get subtle humour either.

Humor*

If you want to criticise America then at least learn to speak the ******* language.

[Paul Waine]

ONS: UK labour market: June 2018 released today - but there's also "other stuff" in the news.

Main points for February to April 2018

Estimates from the Labour Force Survey show that, between November 2017 to January 2018 and February to April 2018, the number of people in work increased, the number of unemployed people decreased and the number of people aged from 16 to 64 years not working and not seeking or available to work (economically inactive) also decreased.

There were 32.39 million people in work, 146,000 more than for November 2017 to January 2018 and 440,000 more than for a year earlier.
The employment rate (the proportion of people aged from 16 to 64 years who were in work) was 75.6%, higher than for a year earlier (74.8%) and the joint highest since comparable records began in 1971.

There were 1.42 million unemployed people (people not in work but seeking and available to work), 38,000 fewer than for November 2017 to January 2018 and 115,000 fewer than for a year earlier.

The unemployment rate (the proportion of people in work plus unemployed people, who were unemployed) was 4.2%, down from 4.6% for a year earlier and the joint lowest since 1975.

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I've added the underline

Is this good news or not?

[Paul Waine]

Humor*

If you want to criticise America then at least learn to speak the ******* language.

Surely (Shirley?) that's not right, IT. The phonetics is the same (well, but for the accents...), it's only the spelling that is different.

So, may be, "learn to type the language..."

[Vino blanco]

For Turtle, bum hole, T. rex, etc it's all fake news, God bless em

[Imploding Turtle]

Surely (Shirley?) that's not right, IT. The phonetics is the same (well, but for the accents...), it's only the spelling that is different.

So, may be, "learn to type the language..."

I was channeling far-right idiocy. I stand by my impression of them.

[Claret-On-A-T-Rex]

For Turtle, bum hole, T. rex, etc it's all fake news, God bless em

What is? Is unemployment down?

Great. Why would I be against that?