Friday 27 April 2012

An interesting little jobs statistic...

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Back in June 2008 - before the age of austerity, before the cuts, before all those civil servants were cast on the scrap heap, public sector employment in the UK was:

6,019,000 - that's 20.4% of the workforce

Now, after all the austerity, the draconian cuts and Osborne's reign of terror, public sector employment in the UK is:

5,942,000 - that's 20.4% of the workforce

Interesting don't you think?

Source: ONS (table EMP02 here)
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1 comment:

bamboo investments said...

This tells me two things. First, that barely any cuts have been made. And second, that even taking into account the cuts that were made in government, total employment has fallen (by my calculations) by about 400,000 people as well.