If you look at the detail you'll see that the new jobs that have been created are largely low paid or part time. Low unemployment - is that a joke? It is lower than the peak during this parliament but it is still dangerously high. Balance between public and private jobs - they try to present this as a good thing but is the reduction in nurses a good thing? Is the redundancies in the armed forces advisable as a new conflict is looming? Do we benefit from the tax avoidance that doesn't get investigated as Inland Revenue don't have the manpower. Do we not mind that tourism was damaged by staff shortages at border control creating hours of queuing or that at times of heightened terrorist threat the passport office had rush process thousands of applications as the press went crazy with stories of missed holidays and honeymoons.
Yes, I was wrong, let us rejoice at the creation of low paid low skilled no progression jobs that make poor use of the talent there to be tapped into. Surely we aspire to more than that?
One Direction are massively successful in USA but stating that success doesn't mean that high youth unemployment is a fallacy. The official figures show that many of the jobs created over the last couple of years are part time / low pay / short term contracts.
The Sun backed Blair in his first election and I think that is probably the one and only time. The Sun is generally accepted to be a right leaning paper and their backing of Labour would not be expected in the same way that Cameron won't lose sleep over The Mirror not coming out in support if the Tories.
Very true, unfortunately the majority of jobs created over the last couple of years have been of the first step nature and being taken up by people who would expect to be in fourth or fifth step jobs - that is the problem - unemployment reducing and those same people still being on the breadline.
