Contradictory
...to what the condems have said.
Suprise suprise!
UK jobs growth grinds to a halt
The UK jobs market is unlikely to get any better this year - public sector jobs are falling and private sector posts are barely growing. The figures come from employment agency Manpower which found a one per cent balance between employers likely to hire and those not likely to hire more staff this year. The public sector balance …
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Massive increase in vacancies for proof-readers
Unfortunately, you needn't apply - surprise, surprise
Were you a product of the hugely successful Labour education experiment? The one that has 40% of children in London receiving private tuition to compensate for their fantastic educative experience (TM) obtained during the day.
Unfortunately one effect of the public sector deficit is to impose a cut to the number of economists that can explain how if the private sector isn't creating wealth then the public sector can increase taxes to pay for public sector employment. So that's another job you can't apply for.
Hurrah
Let's depress our way out of the recession. All out for growth, even if it's negative.
It wasn't the comdems that got us into this
That was due to the champange socialist you voted in!
Why the surprise? Not every country can depend on 'service' industries
The countries who are resisting the onslaught of the Wall Street financial frauds are those who actually manufacture products.
Britain's manufacturing industries are a miserable scrap of what they used to be. How many screws are actually made in the UK? How many ball-bearings?
China, Korea, TaiWan and other Asian countries aren't suffering as much as the Western importing countries the difference being is that they are self-sufficient and have a manufacturing base that exports.
In Europe Germany is a shining example. In North America - hardly anything.
The fallacy that manufacturing products overseas is 'cheap' is a fallacy as the importers mark the goods up so much (living adjacent to China lets me see the real product cost), there is a social cost - lost jobs and depletion of foreign reserves.
Britain's oil legacy has been squandered by propping up failed government programs.
A complete re-think of many countries goals, and the effects of the WTO need implementing.
Project Implementation Review
Let's look at the NuLab experiment and learn from it. Not everything was a disaster, not everything was brilliant.
There will be significant reduction in public sector (both central and local government) by Jan 2010. i.e. significant numbers of people will be made redundant and in the short term, with the generous redundancy terms offered, there will be no positive effect for a couple of years.
So how do we grow the private sector ? It's hard to subsidise manufacturing growth if there are no government funds, many countries manufactur in lower cost centres abroad (Apple, Dell).
People reading ElReg are mostly bright, there must be some ideas floting around that can be presented to local MPs. e.g. the US is now subsidising environmental transport projects, perhaps we can do something similar ? OK, we have few UK HQ'd car manufacturers (Aston Martin, Bristol, Lotus, Jaguar, Land Rover ?) but I'd hope we could do what Telsa or GM are doing. There must be similar areas we could explore.
Unpaid work?..
Hmm... Companies say unpaid work is best route to gain experience. Wonder if lowering their salary bills / employing people as effectively slaves has anything to do with it. A pernicious trend - if a job is worth doing, it is worth paying for.
Sounds good to me ...
If you can't get paid work without experience, but can't get experience without paid work, then getting unpaid work to gain experience in order to get paid work sounds like an option to me. Its certainly something I'd consider if I felt the chances of getting a paid job were significantly increased.
Unpaid workers will always be open to abuse by employers, but if you look at it from a personal standpoint, with specific goals in mind, its something that must be considered.
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