tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2948538160252327076.post7947473919904166258..comments2023-11-02T15:48:50.381+00:00Comments on UK Bubble UK Economy: Job creation - UK styleAlice Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05753570123987780947noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2948538160252327076.post-83962288246013019532008-06-24T10:13:00.000+01:002008-06-24T10:13:00.000+01:00Growth in unproductive public sector employment ?W...Growth in unproductive public sector employment ?<BR/><BR/>We spend a lot of money keeping people in their late teens and early twenties off the unemployment stats by putting them through watered down arts and social science degrees. Then we create non-jobs where they can put this 'education' to use. <BR/><BR/>It's a self-perpetuating cycle. <BR/><BR/>Have you ever examined the career backgrounds of New Labour politicians before they entered politics. There's an awful lot of failed lawyers and social science academics.powermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670631915567128744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2948538160252327076.post-13947742364627580222008-06-23T10:03:00.000+01:002008-06-23T10:03:00.000+01:00Why should low-skilled manufacturing jobs return h...Why should low-skilled manufacturing jobs return here ?<BR/><BR/>Labour costs in Eastern Europe undercut ours enormously. We cannot compete so long as we have all-encompassing welfare.<BR/><BR/>Our speciality is that we don't specialise.<BR/><BR/>The English are adaptable. Englishness is now a diaspora spreading throughout the world where their ideas and innovations are best valued.<BR/><BR/>Unlike here where all the wrong people are promoted and rewarded.Electro-Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18073103431166273080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2948538160252327076.post-43240329103415680112008-06-23T09:54:00.000+01:002008-06-23T09:54:00.000+01:00a short P.S. to mine above, Alice: a Vice-Chancell...a short P.S. to mine above, Alice: a Vice-Chancellor of my acquaintance has called the massive increase in student numbers 'hidden unemployment'; a former head of Ofsted has emphasised that many degrees in second-rank universities offer little by way of good academic training or vocational expertise. So one could add to the account of 'public sector drag' several strands HE funding which simply keep many thousands off the unemployment numbers. <BR/><BR/>B. in C.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2948538160252327076.post-46596437985029240672008-06-23T09:30:00.000+01:002008-06-23T09:30:00.000+01:00Everything this government says is pure spin = lie...Everything this government says is pure spin = lies.<BR/>There is ALWAYS a hidden agenda or double meaning - whether it be reasons for wars, tax hikes in the name of environment etc...<BR/>The low unemployment figures we are fed are fantasy... just like the "official" (= manipulated) inflation figures.<BR/>Unemployment is about 4 million if we include those on incapacity benefit (circa 3 million).<BR/>The government says they are getting people off incapacity benefit, but those are just WORDS to appease "Britains hard working families" - nothing more.<BR/>Anyone with a brain knows that whole populations in former South Wales mining villages (as an example) cannot be unfit to work - there are no jobs so it is convenient to keep these people on a list other than "unemployed".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2948538160252327076.post-9250508306631080492008-06-22T17:32:00.000+01:002008-06-22T17:32:00.000+01:00B. in C, a well-written comment.B. in C, a well-written comment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2948538160252327076.post-73978053638150538602008-06-22T17:13:00.000+01:002008-06-22T17:13:00.000+01:00The public sector statistic makes sense to me.My e...The public sector statistic makes sense to me.<BR/><BR/>My experience working in a university is that the ratio of academics (i.e. those who do the teaching and research) to support staff has changed from 1:0.48 to 1:1 over ten years.<BR/><BR/>The support staff include certain vital functions (registry, finance, library) but increasingly social engineering projects (e.g. seeking to lower drop-out rates, which has absorbed a lot of money and achieved no visible change) and an awful lot of window-dressing and ineffective 'quality' processes which increasingly absorb resources and staff time on metaspeak about institutional goals, low-grade 'staff development' sessions, publicity people who assemble bundles of press-cuttings and require self-praising glossy brochures of inward-facing support departments, etc. etc.<BR/><BR/>This is an 'apparatchik' culture which is common to the police, central and local government, schools and the NHS. With so much money being pumped out of the public purse on these unproductive functions, I suppose the government has no choice but to try to claw back as much of it as possible in indirect taxation, as well as inflicting the same on everybody.<BR/><BR/>Manufacturing processes have become enormously efficient, but the UK does not dominate any world market in anything - unlike Japan+Asia, where production for the whole world in certain sectors is increasingly centralised, with massive cost savings. <BR/><BR/>There's an inevitability in the rise of bureaucratic work to spread around the fruits of highly efficient industrial production - but without a substantial manufacturing base, eventually the UK currency will slide against Asian currencies and the cost of living will rise significantly.<BR/><BR/>B. in C.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2948538160252327076.post-63791957751898781502008-06-22T16:24:00.000+01:002008-06-22T16:24:00.000+01:00Markhttp://www.statistics.gov.uk/socialtrends38/Al...Mark<BR/><BR/>http://www.statistics.gov.uk/socialtrends38/<BR/><BR/>AliceAlice Cookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05753570123987780947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2948538160252327076.post-68320699102697538212008-06-22T16:09:00.000+01:002008-06-22T16:09:00.000+01:00Mark,This chart is from social trends, vol. 38. ch...Mark,<BR/><BR/>This chart is from social trends, vol. 38. chart 4.9<BR/><BR/>AliceAlice Cookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05753570123987780947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2948538160252327076.post-74945142450825123582008-06-22T15:52:00.000+01:002008-06-22T15:52:00.000+01:00Alice can you give us a link to the source, the ON...Alice can you give us a link to the source, the ONS website is tricky to navigate?<BR/><BR/>Further, the category is 'Finance and business services', most of this may be crap shoving money round in ever decreasing circles; or people helping businesses make their way through the jungle of red tape; but some of this is proper jobs.Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2948538160252327076.post-65733044657631350422008-06-22T15:33:00.000+01:002008-06-22T15:33:00.000+01:001 in 5 work for a bank - just making the money go ...1 in 5 work for a bank - just making the money go round.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com