Even with the vast English subsidy they receive each year..,..
Robert Henderson
with the 43% English component) and the massive input from the oil and
gas industry, the Scotch can only fractionally beat the UK unemployment
rate. RH
Published: 2010/03/17 13:28:31 GMT
Unemployment total jumps 16,000
Unemployment in Scotland has risen by 16,000 in the three months to
January, the latest figures have shown.
The number of unemployed people now stands at 205,000 - some 67,000 more
than in the same period last year.
However, the Scottish unemployment rate now stands at 7.6%, slightly
lower than the UK rate of 7.8%.
The narrower "claimant count" measure - the number of adults claiming
Jobseeker's Allowance - stood at 138,500 in February.
That represented a drop of 600 since January, but an increase of 25,100
on February 2009.
Enterprise Minister Jim Mather said the figures suggested that there
were "fragile signs of recovery" across Scotland......
Secretary of State for Scotland Jim Murphy said: "This is the first fall
in the claimant count for nearly two years, but these figures show again
that the economic recovery is very fragile and that the recession has
taken its toll on many families in Scotland.
"More widely it is worrying that some trends are higher in Scotland than
the rest of the UK."
'Great opportunity'
Liz Cameron, chief executive of Scottish Chambers of Commerce, said it
was worrying that Scotland was seeing consistent rises in unemployment
while the rest of the UK experienced a sustained fall.
"Although our overall rate of unemployment remains slightly below the UK
average, the gap is narrowing and the worry is that, with a large public
sector workforce and spending cuts on the way, Scotland may continue to
suffer further rises in unemployment for some time to come," she
said.....
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/scotland/8571898.stm
Published: 2010/03/17 11:15:53 GMT
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Robert Henderson
Personal website: http://www.anywhere.demon.co.uk
Nkosi (ama-ecosse)
wrote:
We have been down this road before Robert, England has no money as it
is funded directly from the UK treasury the same place that Northern
Ireland Wales and Scotland recive the block grants. English funding is
a bit of an oxymoron as it is not eh UK but only part bit player in
the Union..
Nkosi
Robert Henderson
<9a0183b1-1801-478f...@t41g2000yqt.googlegroups.com>,
"Nkosi (ama-ecosse)" <mina...@googlemail.com> writes
>We have been down this road before Robert, England has no money as it
>is funded directly from the UK treasury the same place that Northern
>Ireland Wales and Scotland recive the block grants. English funding is
>a bit of an oxymoron as it is not eh UK but only part bit player in the
>Union..
>
Nope. Money collected in England = English money. England raises the
vast majoirty of taxation and gets less than it raises to spend. The
balance goes to the Celtic Fringe. RH
>Nkosi
Paul C
"Robert Henderson" <phi...@anywhere.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:9mMe3Des...@anywhere.demon.co.uk...
> ....which fuels their 60%+ public sector component of GDP (compared with
> the 43% English component)
What's your source for these figures?
Paul C
>
>England raises the vast majoirty of taxation and gets less than it raises
>to spend.
England is in fiscal deficit, fatty. It spends more than it raises.