Less UK born people in work now than in 1997?

It is, it has to be said quite some claim. That is that there are less British born people in work in the private sector now than there were in 1997.

All those jobs that were created went to foreign born workers apparently.

Fraser Nelson of the Spectator has this preliminary article and this one with more detail.

The implications are of course staggering. I have always thought that the Brown boom was built on hideous amounts of debt and immigration. What is more of a concern is that worklessness amongst those born in the UK has stayed at around 5 million and is now set to climb. We simply have not addressed that issue for over 12 years.

Now we need to.

Unemployment hits 2 million

Or at least that is the official number by the governments preferred measure, as per the ILO (International Labour Organisation).

Well, the thing about that number is it does not include the numbers on incapacity benefit, a wheeze dreamt up in the 1980´s to make the numbers look better, and still working well to massage the numbers for this government.

What is of great concern though is the rate of rise in benefit claimants, up by the highest monthly rate since records began in 1971. Now that is grim.

Still, its alright if you work in the public sector, where jobs are still being ¨created¨ and where wages are going up faster than the private sector.

The BBC has this.

If you´re happy and you know it, vote Labour!

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The above was a comment on this article, and you can read it in context here. It relates to unemployment.