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Well this is the latest info on full time employment I can find: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/f...people-in-jobs

"Full-time jobs accounted for 95% of the rise in employment over the past year, with private sector employment rising by 637,000."

It's true that it's not all sunshine and rainbows. The biggest issue atm seems to be productivity, which Mark Carney is saying today has been worse than expected for the past seven years. It's also why they've revised down their growth expectation for the next few months. I think the thing with zero-hour contracts it not to ban them altogether but to tighten the rules and stop employers exploiting them, because they do have their place in any modern economy. Overall though the fact does remain that our economy is in pretty good shape; it's hardly booming but it is still growing, unemployment is still falling, inflation is lower than hoped but it's no cause for panic, and living standards are gradually expected to bounce back from hereon in. We might not get the good life that Cameron was promising but we should get reasonable stability, I just hope that the speed and depth of cuts that the Tories are planning don't threaten that but tbh I doubt a lot of their pledges on public spending will come to fruition anyway