Also read the report, Howard, on Sky News.
Two thirds of British companies say they will have to lay off skilled staff if the economy does not improve. They say they can't hold out longer than 12 months.
We could be talking here of anything from hundreds of thousands to a few million more people facing the dole.
Quite clearly, if the majority of companies are in this position, it is a mass phenomenon, so those that will be sent home won't find another company where to offer their skills.
It also seems evident that these companies are not employing new people either, if they are already thinking of making redundant a number of those they already employ.
Barry used to tell us that the private sector only needs a reduction in tax, but this article doesn't mention tax as being the problem.
We were also told that the private sector would absorb the 700.000+ jobs being cut in the public sector. Again, no sign of that, but rather the contrary!
The Government needs help from an expert economist, as, quite obviously, reducing tax for the rich is not the answer, does not solve anything, and leads nowhere other than opening even wider gaps in the the deficit of the budget.
The whole economy is crumbling around us in real-time coverage, and this may eventually lead to reductions in pensions, child benefit and, hey-ho, even JSA.
Yes Keith, it looks like we maybe heading towards 4 million unemployed unless GovUK starts to implement a serious decentralisation of the economy.
Economic regeneration must be dealt with locally, with local Government deciding how to offer jobs to unemployed local people, making decisions on how to create factories and farm estates, and get the unemployed people into work.
Barry has had two years and a few months to prove his points, nothing has happened, it has got much worse instead, and the national debt has increased by £150 billion on top of it all.
The Government will have to realise sooner or later that the only way forward to recovery is to start implementing my idea of County Economic Boards, where County and District administrators start drawing up economic plans in their own area, start training courses for local factory and farm work, for carers and nurses too, who have to be local people.
Of-course we'll have to leave the EU to implement these laws, but not in 15 years time as Barry advocates, but today!
The number of people who do not believe the Coalition will last till 2015 has doubled since the end of July (yes 2012!), according to Sky. People are loosing faith in the Government by their droves, the masses are turning away from any faith whatsoever in the present system.
Gov. only has one possible ally left, who isn't hell-bent on bringing down the Government. All the soothsayers of yesteryear have been proved wrong in their erroneous analyses of "how the economy will recover".
It's collapsing around us, and no shaman has managed to save it!
