[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by MTVN

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.

Revised down is tory speak for we lied about productivity and growth to win an election.
Nobody has ever suggested 0hr contracts have no place, they have a specific place it's when you use them to reduce workers employment rights in certain sectors they become an issue.
People are considerably worse off so where the sense of optimism in the face of austerity is coming from I don't know.