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Originally Posted by BERNADETTE
Sorry G but I just can't get my head round the figures being so low when we have lost most of the big companies. The population alone has increased dramatically since then so things just don't add up IMHO.
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It does seem strange when you think of all the traditional companies we've lost that employed hundreds, but although the figures can be massaged for political advantage, such as on long term sickness benefit, rather than employed etc, this also happened in the late seventies/eighties, with all the job 'training' schemes to hide the true unemployment figure.
You can't argue with the facts, no matter how hard they are to swallow.
Although much of the traditional textile/engineerring firms have gone, just think how many more industrial parks there are now locally, compared wqith thirty years ago.
That might be one answer, plus the fact a lot more people commute outside the borough to work.
Either that or there are thousands and thousands working in the Globe Centre, flogging hols on the blower.
