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I had assumed that the figure of 8 million unemployed just meant that they’ve been fiddling the figures all this time.
 
Mojo said:
I had assumed that the figure of 8 million unemployed just meant that they’ve been fiddling the figures all this time.
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I believe the lower figure is for "Unemployed and claiming benefits". Not quite the same as "not economically active".
 
GlennB said:
I believe the lower figure is for "Unemployed and claiming benefits". Not quite the same as "not economically active".
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Exactly.

Wyld Bird Seed's bassist and his wife are "not economically active" having retired in their late 50's. He was the managing director of a large bridge building company and is comfortably retired with no money worries whatsoever.

He isn't going to want to pick cabbages in Lincolnshire.
 
But that’s what the Brexiteers voted for: all of them metropolitan elites being rounded up and made to do some real work!
 
abaddon said:
colateral damage of Brexit? I keep thinking of unintended consequence on my own, yet still find myself going "dammit, I didn't think of that" as and when these things arise.
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You're right. I didn't like "colateral damage' even as I posted but couldn't think of a better word at the (senior) moment. :) "unintended consequence" is what I meant.
 
Meanwhile, the sole "benefit" of Brexit - getting our blue passports back - is going to happen some time in March.

The first blue British passports for nearly 30 years will be issued next month, the Home Office has said.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51585018

I mean of course we could have had blue passports all along had we chosen to do so and the new "English" passports will be produced in France (though like the Chinese MGs, they will be shipped in CKD form and assembled locally).

The blue passports will be made by Gemalto, owned by French firm Thales. However, they will be personalised with the holder's details in the UK.
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Even better, the passports will be produced in Poland. The previous red ones? Made by a British company (De La Rue) and produced in Britain, and as a result of the lost contract, they've put 200 jobs at risk :rolleyes:
 
KDLarsen said:
Even better, the passports will be produced in Poland. The previous red ones? Made by a British company (De La Rue) and produced in Britain, and as a result of the lost contract, they've put 200 jobs at risk :rolleyes:
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That's what we all voted for! It is worth any amount of economic pain to be able to have blue passports back.

2024: Department of Health press release:

We are pleased to announce that we have hit our target a year early and have already reached 60,000 children contracting the Polio virus annually, we've not seen such figures since the 1950s. Once again Boris delivers on his Brexit pledges.
 
Boris likes to be seen as Churchillian, but the more I see of how he operates the more he seems to emulate Churchill's German adversary.
Lazy, let's others do all the work, underlings made to fight for favours, sack those who disagree and blame everyone else for failures.
 
Given the issues in Italy my guess is Europe is going to be distracted by trying to control covid 19 in the next few months, and negotiations on Brexit may take a bit of a low priority. The UK needs to restrict freedom of travel for EU citizens promptly. Covid 19 might be an acceptable excuse for prolonging the interim transitional arrangements.
 
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