56,000 Brits lost their jobs last month, taking the total number of losses to 813,000 over the past year of lockdowns, according to data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). While the continued existence of the furlough scheme is likely masking the true impact of lockdowns on the unemployment rate, ONS officials say there are some reasons to be optimistic. The Mail has the story.
More than 813,000 workers have lost their jobs since the start of the Covid crisis, it emerged today…
But there were further signs that the jobs sector is stabilising, with the first quarterly fall in the unemployment rate since 2019 between December and February and statistics signalling a near-16% jump in vacancies in March.
The unemployment rate eased back further to 4.9% from 5% in the previous three months, the ONS said.
Darren Morgan, director of economic statistics at the ONS, said: “The latest figures suggest that the jobs market has been broadly stable in recent months after the major shock of last spring.
“The number of people on payroll fell slightly in March after a few months of growth.
“There are, though, over 800,000 fewer employees than before the pandemic struck, and with around five million people employed but still on furlough, the labour market remains subdued.
“However, with the prospect of businesses reopening, there was a marked rise in job vacancies in March, especially in sectors such as hospitality.”
BBC News reports that young people continue to bear the brunt of the crisis due to damage done to the hospitality and retail sectors.
People under 25 accounted for more than half of the payroll jobs lost in the year to March, it said – some 436,000 positions.
The Mail‘s report is worth reading in full.
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And what are the government and the MSM obsessing about?
SODDIN FOOTBALL!!
Yeah, been there, done that… I wonder how many government staff have lost their jobs?
None but the State has expanded massively this past year. They’ve built themselves an Empire and employed not only the NHS and Army but the Media as well to support their Covid Scam.
Countless government covid jobs have been created, and I’ve noticed an unusual spike in courts and prison staff recruitment. If you go on the civil service job search, you’ll also see a big drive in ‘green agenda’ recruitment – very in-keeping with the Great Reset.
The furloughed will be added in September
Yes, following claims they’ve given us back our freedom, they’ll lift furlough and insist employers carry the burden going forward – right before the next lockdown in September/October. I doubt the government will re-introduce furlough, saying they’ve done enough to help.
So you think furlough will end in September???
Nope, just the printing presses will be ramped up to produce more ‘free’ money for the government to burn.
The furlough is a massive cover-up of unviable employment.
Its those 5m on furlough who keep polling to continue with lockdown. They and the government know as soon as furlough finishes, the bribe is taken away, and TSHTF.
In the previous recessions that I have lived through it has been the hospitality industry that has partly taken up the slack as redundant miners or car workers used their redundancy to take over a pub or work part time in a restaurant ‘until a real job turns up’.
This time it is precisely those sectors that have been slaughtered.
No matter. Plenty of jobs sticking needles in arms, ramming sticks up noses, and harassing people in supermarkets.
Good point. And remember that it was tough in those conditions with a more buoyant economy. I’ve lived in mining and steel areas all my working life. The scars are still there of the loss of skilled employment.
All the LOCKSTEP aligned RESET govts, think Canada, Australia, NZ, UK, EIRE, Germany and many more in the northern EU are continuing on with this oppressive destructive vaccine and draconian trap-n-trace agenda.
And you won’t see this on MSM, the Berlin Bundespolizei go full on NAZI Stormtrooper mode picking on a disabled man for the crime of not ‘social distancing’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikZafNHTiKg
Germany has been uber swift in getting on-board with this NEW NORMAL WEF agenda, and if in the UK we continue on mimicking this increasingly technofascizt playbook.
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And this week in particular it really is time to start getting physically involved with making your outrage felt, not just by keyboard clicking’s… if a man in a wheelchair has courage in his veins… what about you?
Next London FREEDOM RALLY…. 24th April.
When: 13:00
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Unbelievable, were they really trying to handcuff him behind the back of his wheelchair and then the goon looked surprised when the wheel came off the guys chair !
wonderful… lets see if more people actually give a damn this time… the protests have got to get bigger if the madness is to stop
Plus I have had to shut my business. This Government and the SAGE committee disgusts me. They are guilty of treason and malfeasance, of that I am sure.
They are.
They will pay in the end.
I’d love to agree with both sentences. Sadly, I am sure they will thrive as the plebs suffer and lose even such standard of living as they are maintaining now.
Maybe Annie meant THE end.
Pretty sure, along with removing the possibility of UK leaders being prosecuted under the charge of genocide, Tony Blair also removed the charge of treason. It’s as if he knew what was coming…
The whole mess was entirely foreseeable from March 2020 when ’lockdown’, ‘essential purchases’ and ‘furlough’ were deployed. Overnight the high street and its suppliers in all sectors from luxury goods (that really weren’t luxury, like clothes..) to hospitality to live music was put out of its misery – while windfall profits were showered onto untaxed online suppliers and uncompetitive supermarket cartels.
I ranted and railed at the time against complacency, against lack of any economic risk assessment, against Sunak’s idiotic underestimations of REAL damage being done (his initial estimate was that it would mean laughable £3bn hit on government borrowing, which he hurriedly revised to £30bn, but was still way, way out even by cigarette packet estimates). Still people cowered in the face of the latest naughty flu and backed the government’s indefensible actions.
After years of ridiculing Corbyn’s unicorn economics and magic money trees the Tories decided to visit his allotment one dark night and pinched some of his prized livestock and saplings, and when relabelled (as part of successive unchallenged ministerial decrees) the MSM refused to question their real ownership. As did Labour, oddly…
No journalist looked at the REAL lockdown financial figures, or at the inevitable implications of exceeding debt per GDP guidelines. Sunak belatedly talked about a Jack in the Box economy, except the spring has rusted through debt and inaction. You can’t put business in the deep freeze along with yer experimental jabs. Money-needs-to-go-round! Curious that…
Meanwhile printing money is steaming ahead just to keep things ticking over, as a consequence inflationary pressure is building in the system, and once there is any economic upturn it will make its presence felt big time. Indeed it already has if one looks at the unjustified house price increase over the last few months.
At this point the government has run out of tools, increasing interest rates (one much abused remedy…) would choke any recovery, and lead to rising poverty and homelessness. Being backed into an impossible corner is the price of long term governmental incompetence.
So, predictably, we go back to the Phillips Curve (beloved of 70’s governments and A level examiners) hasn’t gone away. It states, the only way to hold massive inflation in check is massive unemployment. But if that has become impossible politically, then perhaps we have to redefine ‘unemployment’?
And lo, we have a scenario for universal basic income. Controllable and adjustable in level, calibrated to offset inflationary pressures in the ensuing endgame of our flagging FIAT currencies, before we transition to a digital economy with social credits. Jobs a good un’!
“Spare us a quid, mate, I’ve got me contact free reader here.”
2009 Banking bailouts then 10 years later this, and more pain to come as we are bailing out on a monumental scale.
Just missed the local Con councillor leafletting, ripped up the junk mail as loudly as I could though! Never again.
The Tory party has been assimilated… there is only the WEF Great Reset party….
Watch and learn….
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I just got handed a glossy local election leaflet from the Lib Dems; it’s about fly tipping, closed public lavs, too many student flats and a new sports centre that’s gone from £20m to £50m.
Nothing about covid/lockdown but at least it’s not parroting the NWO/WHO agenda.
Yes, conservatives in bed with WEF
Received letter & leaflet yesterday asking me to vote for the conservative candidate. Over my dead body!!!!
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People on furlough, some retired folk and public sector employees are doing well thank you and looking forward to long summer holidays. The nonsense will not end until it hits that group in their pockets and they stop supporting lockdowns and restrictions.
The worse economic effects are yet to come. I’d start by booting SAGE off the pay roll.
Our great grand children will still be paying our debts. I’m having ‘An ardent lockdown sceptic’ carved on my gravestone. I don’t want people pissing on my grave like the government has done to us simply to keep a few votes. May you roast over a slow fire with a toasting fork in your fat arse Boris Johnson.
You’re falling into the resentment and division trap set up by this evil mob. The situation suits a few – but not that many.
Personally, I can think of one couple – split between private and public sectors who have taken advantage of the situation – because it suits their lifestyle, and they have both stayed employed, and working. But even they don’t want this to continue.
I disagree- I know many public sector/professional types who are revelling in this. Constantly ramping up the ‘stay safe/you can’t be too careful/ I hope it’s not too soon’ mantra, they have warned many local businesses that they are watching them and will report them if they break the rules- indeed one poor sod who allowed a few mates into his pub got dobbed in by the Stasi, although I did think he should have been a bit more discreet. They were in full agreement with the tougher new tiers after Lockdown ll, happily pointing out that it was for our own good and how us plebs simply didn’t understand, while local businesses who were looking forward to the run up to Christmas were devastated. Plenty of furloughed / public sector, (is there really a difference?), types loving this- they all seem to have gone to sleep. Certainly, no one seems desperate for work, just ask local businesses who are bemused to find they can’t recruit staff.
so where were all of them at the last protest? mumbling at home I guess
you will own nothing.. you will not go on holiday.. or to a pub.. and you will not use any gas or electricity.. and you will be happy.
The ONS conjures some optimism, as the government et al. struggle to persuade us that we are not heading over an unpleasant cliff onto spiky rocks.
The Potemkin pubs and barbers and restaurants with skeleton crews and minuscule capacity are fooling many, but by no means all. This is spring into summer theatre.
Winter is coming.
Green Passes ID Social Credit China Syndrome.
Maybe I’ll go on a march.
Also remember the 100 of thousands of Europeans who have gone home who are not counted but won’t return. There is going to be a massive shortage of workers this year especially in low paid but the most essential jobs.