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The UK unemployment rate worried economists as it rose from 7.8% to 7.9% from February through April.
The difference is only 0.1% but it equals 23,000 jobless people, which increased the total unemployment number to 2.47 million.
In addition, official statistics also showed that those out of work and not seeking employment also rose with 29,000 during the same period – or 21.5% of the working age population.
Experts say that the UK’s austerity measures will increase unemployment even more because part of the spending cuts will affect the public sector employment.
John Walker, national chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), said:
“The …
On May 7, the Conservative party won the elections with the majority of the votes—10,706,647. If the conservatives keep their promises about better immigration control, they will tighten up the rules for everybody who wants to enter and stay in the country.
They will supposedly start monitoring closely immigrants from outside the European Union coming in for economic reasons; introduce stricter rules for UK student visas; apply English language test for non-EU immigrants entering the country to get married, and reduce illegal immigration.
It will soon become obvious whether the plan will work out or not. We only hope for clarity …
The Labour party believe that controlled immigration has a positive effect on the country. Based on the years of experience, they are confident they have done a lot of positive changes in the immigrant rules. They are implementing “a new Australian-style points-based immigration system,” which will help to let only the skilled immigrants in the country—to help build a stronger economy, per www.labour.org.uk.
They promise that by the end of 2010, in addition to the 100% biometric visas and ID cards for foreign nationals, they will start electric border controls to count people in and out of the country. In order to gain positive …
