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Originally Posted by Kizzy
Massaged stats do not mean employment is down, jobseekers on sanctions, on unpaid work placements and ESA claimants currently awaiting tribunals are not added to the list of unemployed.
'A total of 141,000 people were counted as in employment while on ‘government employment and training programmes’, where the Office for National Statistics continues to count Work Programme (etc.) participants as ‘in employment’ by default'
http://www.cesi.org.uk/statistics/labour/february-2014 |
Yes, I know all that. I'm not waving a flag for any party here, nor am I denying the points you've made. But your average voter won't base their vote on that stuff, they'll base it on what's important to them and theirs and there will be very few Tories in the groups you've described.
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