Lies, damned lies, statistics and labour government propaganda.

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For November 2009 to January 2010:
The employment rate was 72.2 per cent and there were 28.86 million employed people.
The unemployment rate was 7.8 per cent and there were 2.45 million unemployed people.
The inactivity rate was 21.5 per cent and there were 8.16 million working age inactive people.
The employment rate for the three months to January 2010 was 72.2 per cent. The rate is down
0.3 on the quarter and it has not been lower since the three months to November 1996.
The number of inactive people of working age increased by 149,000 over the quarter to reach a record high of
8.16 million.
The number of people in employment was 28.86 million in the three months to January 2010,
The number of people in part-time employment was 7.70 million in the three
months to January 2010,
The number of people in public sector employment was 6.10 million in December 2009, up 7,000
from September 2009.


Hold on inactivity? I'm sorry do you mean unemployment? so there are 2.5million officially unemployed and yet there are also 8.2million who are inactive or as we would normally call them unemployed. So you mean there are 10 million unemployed then?

Spit it out, an unemployed person is somebody without a job, a bitter pill no matter how you dress it up with an euphemism it is still a bitter pill.