Labour have ruined the job market

[Needajobforspouse]

My spouse was made redundant in November, has done some bid work since then (e.g zero contract parcel delivery) but not enough to make up his old salary. He has job alerts and this week there was ZERO jobs advertised that meet his qualifications.

Nobody is hiring.

I work for an SME, and I am also at risk and in bad health. Not enough for PIP etc but enough to make me unreliable (recently diagnosed as immunocompromised).

Not even the local supermarket is hiring, and they won’t touch my DH anyway as he is massively over qualified (I know a supermarket manager and they don’t take on over qualified people as they are “hard to manage” and don’t stay long term.).

yesterday our car broke and we used the last of our savings for a new one, my roof is leaking. My bay window is leaking and I just feel like giving up.

just dreading this year of shitty government policies that pick on the middle income earners and penalise us, is this life? Because if so I hate it.

also where are all the jobs?! Literally zero here in northern England.

They are in an echo chamber that’s why. They aren’t able to critically think. It’s like being in a class of 5 year olds. Unable to concentrate on more than one task at a time. Labour - good. Tory - bad. Labour could sink the whole economy and rhetorically set fire to the whole country and it would be ok. The hero worship of Keir is a little creepy.

Er yes, we are. As are many of our friends and peers who also work in the private sector. I didn't vote for the Labour party but how do you think they won a landslide victory if only people in the Public sector voted for them. We are in London and the south east so maybe in your echo chamber it is Reform economics.

Yes, because this summary exudes superlative critical thinking.

I don’t know anyone who voted Reform. Lib Dems and ex Labour voters here. The cat thread is that way >>

@Goldenbear it's likely changing now given the polling anyway, and the most loyal are likely public sector or state dependent

I'm intrigued which part of the private sector hasn't seen impact at all

Yes me too. Which private sector industry are you both in where jobs pipeline has not been impacted by the 10% increased cost per role @Goldenbear?

I’m curious to know which sector is escaping the pain. I’m in Financial Services and our job pipeline has been frozen.

Well, you’ll be shocked to know that the NIC rise means there’s effectively a real terms cut for social care sector… something the Tories never did for all their faults, but you go on parroting your childishly naive “Tories bad, Labour good” narrative.

Snap.

This absolutely breaks my heart in all seriousness. There is a children’s hospice that I am aware of as an old friend works there. It isn’t some big charity creaming off the top. They are effectively cutting support and care for DYING CHILDREN in a way the Tories never did. They cannot afford to swallow all these new rises. People shout, tax business, and don’t stop to think what it all means.

A lengthy and interesting critique of the Goldman Sachs analysis (your link) and doppelgänger models in general:

The paper is unconvincing with evidence flimsy at best and some of their trade statistics are incorrect. If anything, the paper simply proves that the US would be a better economic model for the UK, not the EU.
https://centreforbrexitpolicy.org.uk/news/online/goldman-sachs-wrong-on-brexit/

GS claims to have used ‘similar’ countries to the UK in their doppelganger models. However, they have not revealed which ‘similar’ countries they have chosen to use in their comparative doppelgangers, nor have they explained in what way these countries are similar to the UK so we will never be able to check whether their analysis is fair. Nor do they explain why they change comparators between issues. Some are simple comparisons, others use a doppelganger index. When comparing real GDP per capita they use the US and the Eurozone; when comparing trade, they refer to a ‘G7 mean’ and a ‘range of doppelgangers’; and when comparing real GDP they use a G7 doppelganger but don’t say if this is made up of all of the G7 countries or just the G7 countries that they believe are similar to the UK. It does look as if they are cherry-picking their comparators.
https://www.briefingsforbritain.co.uk/goldman-sachs-wrong-on-brexit/

Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened.
https://thecritic.co.uk/brexit-and-the-dubious-doppelgangers/

For those that have to counter the dire decisions Labour have made with “what about Brexit”… if it was so bad (and I’m inclined to agree it was a big mistake economically), why isn’t Labour reversing it,
or even seeking to go back into the customs union?

And why do Team Starmer assume that if you criticise Labour, you must be a racist hard-right nutjob who worships at the feet of Farage! I really dislike Reform, and have never liked Farage, but my god, their patronising drivel is making me consider them!

Yes, it’s appalling, but some are so tribally Labour, Starmer could tattoo a swastika to his forehead and they’d still bleat on about the “evil Tories”…

Because they want to make progress not get stuck in a quagmire of rehashing the old debates. Brexit consumed British politics for far too long. I happen to think it was hugely stupid self sabotage and would love to undo it but it's not worth the hassle vs getting on with other stuff at the moment.

At least that'd be why I'd be ignoring it if I was in power.

What do you consider to be progressive about the current Government?

@Octopies I said make progress, as in movement towards not progressive

But I'd say their employments rights bill is pretty progressive.

In what way?

Because they want to make progress not get stuck in a quagmire of rehashing the old debates. Brexit consumed British politics for far too long.

They'll struggle to make progress as policies will further shrink private sector

The next issue they'll have is struggling to get defence budget up

Maybe they'll go for welfare spending to try

They didn't win a landslide victory. Their votes were barely improved on the previous GE under Corbyn. What happened was the Tories lost massive amounts of votes to Reform and Libdems. So basically the Tories lost it rather than Starmer winning it. So, yes, they have a massive majority, but there was no significant shift in votes towards Labour to achieve it.

This is basically what happens under a fptp electoral system. Corbyn piled up loads of votes from his fans in places where he didn't need to and alienated Labour voters in areas he did need to. Boris Johnsons victory was not as a result of him getting a significantly higher number of voters than Teresa May. Most of his victories in the Red Wall were due to people not wanting to vote for Corbyn so not voting at all. Vote share means nothing without broad appeal. Tories moaning about this when they have either done nothing or actively sabotaged any attempt to reform the voting system but are now complaining because they have become the victims of it.

i can agree about holding those in charge to a higher standard but then we need to impove the political education of the public so when they do vote they can also be part of choosing a quality manager and their team to lead the country

You would just end up getting an echo chamber of the policies of whoever is in charge at the time passed down to students via the classroom.

so its pickled either way so to speak

It's really annoying though as they promise the world then let you go the next day. My bf cannot get a permenant job and works a few weeks then loses it then cannot get any uc so he's skint. Hence the reason so many people don't bother working this is the reason why. And no I am not talking about myself before people starting on me I am a registered professional and work full time permenant jobs.

I know it’s really annoying - they will drop anyone for someone cheaper. It started years before July 2024 though.