A national newspaper today is praising the government's handling of the economy, and also laying into the Labour Party for their unwillingness to admit the facts.
So let's consider some facts.
Unemployment fell by 57,000 to 2.51million in the quarter ending in May of this year. At this rate it will take ELEVEN YEARS to achieve full employment in this country. Many unemployed people will either reach retirement age - or die - during those eleven years, and so many people currently on JSA will by the government's own figures never find work. Also, given that it is highly unlikely that unemployment will continue falling every quarter for the next eleven years, it is safe to assume that at some point the Tories will allow unemployment to start rising again, and that many people in this country will remain out of work their whole lives.
Basically therefore the evil Tory government is quite happy for many unemployed people to remain festering on the dole queues indefinitely, and in some cases forever. If the Tories were serious about running the economy, they would pursue sensible policies, such as abolishing the Work Programme.
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