Labour spin over job creation (a bit late posting but worth a look)

This post has been stuck in draft since 06.11.07 but I thought it worth posting now anyway...


Over the years Gordon Brown has trumpeted his Labour government's record on job creation:

25.06.01 - "Not only are there 1 million more people in jobs"
25.06.01 - "our objective to build on the 1 million jobs that have been created since 1997"
08.11.01 - "we have created an additional 1 million jobs"
28.02.2002 - "Our policies for both stability and economic regeneration have led to the creation of 1.3 million more jobs in this country over the last five years"
18.07.2002 - "1.5 million more people are in jobs"
18.11.2002 - "we want the Labour policy, which has created 1.5 million more jobs"
27.11.2002 - "in total 1½ million more work force jobs have been created since 1997"
27.03.2003 - "The fact of the matter is that we have created 1.5 million jobs"
09.04.2003 - "there are 253,000 more jobs in the UK"
08.05.2003 - "The hon. Gentleman seems to forget that there are 1.5 million more jobs in the economy"
10.07.2003 - "1.5 million more jobs than existed in 1997"
16.10.2003 - "of the 1.7 million additional jobs that have been created"
04.12.2003 - "There are 200,000 more jobs in the United Kingdom than there were a year ago. In the most recent quarter alone nearly 50,000 new jobs have been created. There are now almost 1.7 million more people in work since 1997, and since the beginning of 2001"
10.12.2003 - "the number of jobs created in our economy now exceeds 1.7 million"
18.12.2003 - "The fact is that 1.24 million jobs have been created in the private sector"
29.01.2004 - "that 1.7 million jobs have been created, and that 1.2 million jobs have been created in the private sector"
17.03.2004 - "the creation of 1.8 million jobs since 1997—1.3 million in the private sector"
17.06.2004 - "We have created 2 million jobs"
15.07.2004 - "the 1.8 million new jobs that we have created since 1997"
03.02.2005 - "we have 2 million more jobs in this country"
25.05.2005 - "2 million jobs that we have already created since 1997"
13.10.2005 - "In these years, we have created 2.3 million jobs"
13.10.2005 - "there were 350,000 extra jobs in last year alone and 2.3 million extra since 1997"
05.12.2005 - "we have 330,000 more people in jobs this year"
08.12.2005 - "since we came to power and there are 2.3 million more jobs"
08.12.2005 - "The fact is that we have created 2.3 million jobs since we came to power in 1997, and 330,000 jobs have been created in the past year"
08.12.2005 - "We have created 330,000 new jobs during the past year"
08.12.2005 - "and this economy has created 300,000 jobs in the past year"
08.12.2005 - "2.3 million jobs have been created since 1997"
26.01.2006 - "there are 2.3 million more jobs in the British economy than there were in 1997"
02.03.2006 - "we have created 2.3 million jobs in the past eight years"
27.11.2006 - "The new deal has helped 3.6 million people to find jobs. It has helped 1.8 million people into work"
06.12.2006 - "there are now2½ million more jobs in Britain and the highest ever number of men and women in work in our country"
07.12.2006 - "there are now 2.5 million more people in work than there were in 1997"
07.12.2006 - "Looking at every region of the United Kingdom since 1997, there are 160,000 new jobs in the west midlands, 200,000 new jobs in the east midlands, 200,000 new jobs in Scotland and 200,000 new jobs in Yorkshire and Humberside. The one thing that the Opposition cannot say is that the 2.5 million new jobs that have been created in Britain in the past 10 years is not a record for this country. There is a higher proportion of people in work in this country than in most of the other advanced industrial economies"
29.03.2007 - "will create 100,000 jobs over the next few years for people who are inactive or unemployed"
10.05.2007 - "The reason why there are 29 million people in work"
10.05.2007 - "that there are 2.5 million more jobs in the economy"
14.06.2007 0 "When it comes to the real economy, jobs are being created"
14.06.2007 - "There are a record 29 million people in work—more than at any time in our history and 87,000 more than this time last year"
17.10.2007 - "new British jobs in the years to come"
17.10.2007 - "There are two and a half million more people in jobs than in 1997"
17.10.2007 - "We have created 2.5 million jobs"
24.10.2007 - "That is why, in providing British jobs for British workers, we have been determined to sign agreements with 110 companies, and will sign agreements with 300 in future. Those agreements are designed to provide 300,000 new jobs, and that is one way in which we can get unemployed workers in Britain into the 600,000 vacancies that exist in the economy"


Only now do we realise that when he spoke of new jobs being created he meant new jobs for immigrant workers. According to Treasury figures (remember that Gordon Brown was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1997 to earlier this year and is now First Lord of the Treasury):
1. Since 1997 the number of adults in work has risen by 1.7 million. of these, 1.35 million have been immigrant workers
2. Since 2002 the British workforce has grown by 491,000. However the number of those with jobs who were born in Britain has dropped by 478,000. The number of foreign born workers, working in Britain, has risen by 964,000. "That means all additional jobs created in the past five years have gone to immigrants, who have also taken over half a million jobs previously done by native Britons. The trend is accelerating rapidly." See more here.


The UK taxpayer is now paying more and more British "workers" unemployment pay, invalidity benefit, etc. whilst their jobs are done by immigrant workers. This government and its friends in big business have colluded to bring a cheap foreign workforce into the UK so as to keep wage inflation down and profits up.

This government have misled the UK population for years now as to how the jobs created by their wonderful economic management have been filled.

This government have been incompetent in their predictions of the number of workers coming to this country from the new member countries of the EU; don't forget that it was this Labour Government that confidently predicted that the number of workers who would come to this country from Eastern Europe to work would be 13,000, the actual number that have come since April 2004 is in fact over 1 million.

On 26.10.2006 Gordon Brown said that "migration to this country must be managed. We must get the balance right between the number of people we need to fill the skilled jobs that are available and a policy for managed migration to this country". Do you believe he meant this? Do you think he knew what was actually happening in this country?


Many thanks to the great resource They work for You for the quotations at the top of this article.