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UK employment rate hits record high

There's nothing interesting in the News, so here goes...

UK employment jumped to a record high in the three months to December as more women entered employment, new figures reveal.The surge in employment resulted in the highest figure on record and was higher than analysts had predicted, with a rise of 160,000 initially forecast.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8015963/Boris-Bounce-goes-UK-employment-rate-reaches-new-record-high-180-000-people-work.html

Thanx to the Daily Mail, couldn't find a word about it at the BBC. So much s**t in the so-called news bulletins and this is more relevant and of interest to the public than everything else put together.
Original post by z-hog
There's nothing interesting in the News, so here goes...



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8015963/Boris-Bounce-goes-UK-employment-rate-reaches-new-record-high-180-000-people-work.html

Thanx to the Daily Mail, couldn't find a word about it at the BBC. So much s**t in the so-called news bulletins and this is more relevant and of interest to the public than everything else put together.

The BBC has it here.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51543521

I suspect the BBC have prioritised wage levels because they have already run the same story in the past two months.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51188930
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50820280
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Original post by nulli tertius
The BBC has it here.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51543521

I suspect the BBC have prioritised wage levels because they have already run the same story in the past two months.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51188930
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50820280

Since you're more taken by my BBC claim than by the positive economic news, a search on BBC employment figures yields nothing but news of a drop in unemployment in Scotland and NI, as if England didn't exist, and everything else is out of date. As you found out, it's buried in a link about the rise in wage levels. For all the time the BBC and the media construct dedicate to what some 'Boris adviser' wrote on the net more than a decade ago, this is bigger fish. It's all doom and gloom, boring.
Original post by z-hog
Since you're more taken by my BBC claim than by the positive economic news, a search on BBC employment figures yields nothing but news of a drop in unemployment in Scotland and NI, as if England didn't exist, and everything else is out of date. As you found out, it's buried in a link about the rise in wage levels. For all the time the BBC and the media construct dedicate to what some 'Boris adviser' wrote on the net more than a decade ago, this is bigger fish. It's all doom and gloom, boring.


Ultimately BBC News is a news organisation. They reported record employment levels in December and January. They wouldn’t be human if they weren’t looking to get a new angle on the story by February when employment rose again,which they did by prioritising the wage growth figures.
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Original post by nulli tertius
Ultimately BBC News is a news organisation. They reported record employment levels in December and January. They wouldn’t be human if they weren’t looking to get a new angle on the story by February when employment rose again,which they did by prioritising the wage growth figures.

Fair enough, the Daily Mail don't have a problem with reporting it straight but you stick to the BBC. Different narratives.
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Original post by z-hog
Fair enough, the Daily Mail don't have a problem with reporting it straight but you stick to the BBC. Different narratives.

Has the Daily Mail reported on the drop in unemployment in Scotland and Northern Ireland? As a Scot I'm more interested in that than the UK picture, but you stick to the Daily Mail.
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Has the Daily Mail reported on the drop in unemployment in Scotland and Northern Ireland? As a Scot I'm more interested in that than the UK picture, but you stick to the Daily Mail.

Time for a change in government I reckon.
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Time for a change in government I reckon.

Only 15 months to the next election.
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Only 15 months to the next election.

Couldn't come sooner.
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Original post by KittyGurl
Couldn't come sooner.

No, not without legislation.

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