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highwaystar101 on 27 August 2009
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Kasz216 said:
highwaystar101 said:
CommunistHater said:
17% of U.K. working age households have no working adults

LMFAO...

Please tell me you didn't get that from the figures released by the Conservative party two days ago because let me tell you those figures are completely inflated and fabricated crap. Seriously, the methodology used was "Make employment under Labour look shit by making figures up", nothing else.

If you didn't get your figure from that I appologise and would like to see where you got themrom. But yeah the Conservative figures were completely bogus and only really made it (represented as fact) to the Lower end tabloids like the Express, Mail and Sun in scarestories.

Your government list working age employment at 73%.

So I wouldn't just say the number was outright made up.

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If you look at what he said, he said that 17% of UK households have no working adults. Now let's assume that the average UK household has 2 (I'm afra'id I can't find the true figure but this has to be close) working adults then that would require the employment to be at 66% or less. What I think hes used is the unemployment figures releasead by the conservative party two days ago which used highly inflated figures and incorrect models.

Conversely however, in research for this I did find a source that said 16% of UK households of working age did not have an employed member, but it went on to say that 42% of these households are either single parent housholds or people who live alone, so there is only one person of working age. So I wont count out the legitimacy of his claim, it just seems a bit inflated to me and that's why I think it was from the conservative estimations recently released.

Meh, things will soon start to pick up in our country again hopefully anyway.

 

On a side note (or just on topic) I hate how many people blame immigrants for taking away jobs. The only reason people blame immigrants is because they are terrestrial so they experience them first hand and so they are easy to blame. If these same people realised the magnitude that our labour was being outsourced to industrial countries such as China and India then they would soon change their tune towards them.

Outsourcing labour surely must cost more jobs than immigration.