1m unfilled vacancies

[bensherman]

It takes a particular talent to produce an economy with 9% inflation, strikes, and over a million unfilled vacancies, with zero growth.

Every one of those unfilled vacancies represents a permanent loss of wealth.

Whatever could be the reason?

Answers on a postcard

[justbecause]

There’s a section of the population that CHOOSES not to work and to scrounge off the benefits system, and I should know, I have two family members, neither have done a day’s work in 20 years. People like this should be forced to fill some of the vacancies, and if they don’t like it, 5hey should have their benefits stopped.

[bensherman]

I am sure there are some.

But the bug reason we have 1m vacancies is what local utterly fails to grasp. Vacancies are not where the people are. If you have 100,000 jobs to be filled in London while there may be 50,000 out of work in Liverpool they aren't the answer- primarily housing is the block.

Immigrants went where the jobs where. That's the difference.

johnon talked about a "high-skill, high-reward economy"...with no idea how to do it.

[donkey22]

It takes a particular talent to produce an economy with 9% inflation, strikes, and over a million unfilled vacancies, with zero growth.

Every one of those unfilled vacancies represents a permanent loss of wealth.

Whatever could be the reason?

Answers on a postcard

They’ve been able to hone their talents of destruction and decimation for the past 12 years. They now have it down to a fine art, and with Truss waiting in the wings, I’m sure there’ll be worse to come.

[Knot wright]

I left a care job that was very poor this year , but with a final salary pension in reserve from my past employment that I could fall back on ,
I did not want to give up work , but some of the hoops and jumps employers wanted me to do was incredible and for what ... min pay !!
yeah right .. wonderful

I took my pension ........

no more tank fulls of petrol just to get work , only one car , all day to do stuff , go out , chill , and years of experience out to pasture ..

[local]

I am sure there are some.

But the bug reason we have 1m vacancies is what local utterly fails to grasp. Vacancies are not where the people are. If you have 100,000 jobs to be filled in London while there may be 50,000 out of work in Liverpool they aren't the answer- primarily housing is the block.

Immigrants went where the jobs where. That's the difference.

johnon talked about a "high-skill, high-reward economy"...with no idea how to do it.

But Rodney in your own innate stupidity you have undone your own point, you are funny and you don't even realise.

I cannot for the life of me understand how you were employable, you are clueless.

Did the immigrants live in tents?

As I keep telling you wages were kept down by people getting dozens of cheap imports from the EU's poorer countries.

It happened right here in sunny Southport did you have your Euro Blinkers on again.

In your distorted logic cheap imports don't keep prices down.



Come on give me another laugh, I have had a busy day.

We are moving inexorably towards a high-wage economy which is why Sir Beir sees the benefits of Brexit.

Low paying poor jobs that us net contributors subsidise with our taxes are not being filled.

Unioms and workers should be dancing in the streets at long last they are not being undercut by cheap labour from the EU.

It's a shame we have been hit by the energy crisis and covid forcing prices through the roof.

Might I also tell you many countries in the EU are having labour issues ormaybe not you would get confused.

[The PNP]

I left a care job that was very poor this year , but with a final salary pension in reserve from my past employment that I could fall back on ,
I did not want to give up work , but some of the hoops and jumps employers wanted me to do was incredible and for what ... min pay !!
yeah right .. wonderful

I'd have probably done exactly the same, mate.....Bet they have trouble filling that vacancy, from UK nationals though. Such a pity we left the EU when we did, or it would still have been possible for them to take on a wiling Pole or whatever.

[bensherman]

But Rodney in your own innate stupidity you have undone your own point, you are funny and you don't even realise.

I cannot for the life of me understand how you were employable, you are clueless.

Did the immigrants live in tents?

As I keep telling you wages were kept down by people getting dozens of cheap imports from the EU's poorer countries.
You told us peoples wages were kept down by immigrants coming to work here. I posted copious examples of how that was proved to be a myth.

It happened right here in sunny Southport did you have your Euro Blinkers on again.
To be replaced by a situation where businesses are struggling, even closing down, for lack of staff.

In your distorted logic cheap imports don't keep prices down.
No, you conflated prices for goods and wages, but they work entirely separately. Now we pay far more for the same goods. Can you explain the benefit there?



Come on give me another laugh, I have had a busy day.

We are moving inexorably towards a high-wage economy which is why Sir Beir sees the benefits of Brexit.
No he doesn't and yes we are moving towards an economy with high wages and high prices which leaves those on fixed incomes behind.

Low paying poor jobs that us net contributors subsidise with our taxes are not being filled.

That is not a coherent sentence.

Unioms and workers should be dancing in the streets at long last they are not being undercut by cheap labour from the EU.

It's a shame we have been hit by the energy crisis and covid forcing prices through the roof.

Tell us how Covid is forcing prices through the roof now...while food rots in our fields because there is no one to harvest it. I just came back from Germany which (a) has an even bigger energy problem (b) had Covid and (c) already had higher wages. Everything was cheaper there. We were living in a house, buying food, going out, buying fuel...

Might I also tell you many countries in the EU are having labour issues ormaybe not you would get confused.

You really make a show of yourself

[Dirac]

You really make a show of yourself

Ah - I'm not surprised by the stupidity of local's posts - I now only see them when quoted.

Moronic, tribal, blinkered, full of primary school-level insults - in response to her/his request, they were put on my ignore list some time ago.

I should really express my gratitude for following their request...

[The PNP]

But Rodney in your own innate stupidity you have undone your own point, you are funny and you don't even realise.

Disagree, all are valid points imo.

Did the immigrants live in tents?

Occasionally, what's wrong with that anyway - some Brits do!

I have had a busy day.

Haven't we all!

Unioms and workers should be dancing in the streets at long last they are not being undercut by cheap labour from the EU.

Nah, they're all going on strike, mate - duh!

[MICK/GILLY]

Having had lots of experience with foreign workers from all over the world most legal some not I can tell you they don’t come here for just minimum wages or less than, they don’t cross the world for crap money they could get that where they come from. They come here to work hard, to work away from their families to support them you can find them in factories, in the care sectors and on the fields doing long hours and 6 full day weeks and living in caravans and 2/3 families to a house, some take advantage of the free NHS training in university and become nurses, doctors or suchlike. You tell Johnny Foreigner you have had a hard day he will laugh at you as he got up at 6am and worked till 7pm then studied until midnight for the future of his family back in who knows where land. I don’t think they come to take our jobs if there’s one million spare jobs going these are the people employers want they don’t want to argue or strike just work and work hard but don’t think they are daft enough to go for little pay the jobs they do command good money, many hours and proper hard work and that’s why they succeed .

[MICK/GILLY]

There’s a section of the population that CHOOSES not to work and to scrounge off the benefits system, and I should know, I have two family members, neither have done a day’s work in 20 years. People like this should be forced to fill some of the vacancies, and if they don’t like it, 5hey should have their benefits stopped.

Now don’t get me wrong I agree with you 100% …. Buuut one person that rents, pays council taxes and works 40 hrs for £10 an hour that’s £400 say, so after tax and NI he comes out with £300, it costs him £50 to get to work and back and he pays £100 a week rent and £20 ( guessing here ) a week council tax so he clears £130 ish.

He will get £90 dole a week they will pay for his flat he won’t need to pay to travel to work or council tax so he will only be loosing out around £40 not working .

Or to put it another way he will be working 40 hours a week for a pound an hour. Now not bothering to some is called lazy but to others it’s common sense. You see there has been a lot of talk about making it better to work but the reality is many are caught in a trap, there will be many that still work for this £40 a week because they were brought up properly and taught working makes you free but there are many more that won’t that think for themselves that can see … it’s just not worth it .

But don’t get me wrong I agree with you, I was even thinking of starting a company called The Work House in the same style as a recruitment company that would take the unemployed and homeless and ..put them.. to work but the laws here are a bit too namby Pamby and I think the last person that could have made this work died in a bunker .

[said]

I am sure there are some.

But the bug reason we have 1m vacancies is what local utterly fails to grasp. Vacancies are not where the people are. If you have 100,000 jobs to be filled in London while there may be 50,000 out of work in Liverpool they aren't the answer- primarily housing is the block.

Immigrants went where the jobs where. That's the difference.

johnon talked about a "high-skill, high-reward economy"...with no idea how to do it.

Housing is not a hold up - it is the necessary deposits for renting or buying that is. There are sufficient houses but insufficient earning power.

[said]

They’ve been able to hone their talents of destruction and decimation for the past 12 years. They now have it down to a fine art, and with Truss waiting in the wings, I’m sure there’ll be worse to come.

The UK economy is still reeling from the Labour near disaster that almost bankrupted the whole country. Best not to be colour blind when talking politics.

[Alikado]

The UK economy is still reeling from the Labour near disaster that almost bankrupted the whole country. Best not to be colour blind when talking politics.

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