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Originally Posted by accyman
thinking about it unemployment was a damn sight higher than what people think under the tories they just hid millions of teenagers in somthing called teh Y.T.S where you worked a full week for £28.50 and even in teh 80's that was a miserable amount of money to recieve for a weeks work
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I would think a few people will remember the various Tory schemes to keep the unemployment figures artificially low in the 1980's
They also changed the the way the numbers of unemployed were counted several times to make it appear lower.
Unemployment had it's height in the 1980's was probably nearer to 4 million than 3 million