There’s some confusion over at Bob’s place about how we measure unemployment nowadays, and a further erroneous suggestion that it’s all as bad as 1985 all of a sudden.
IT ISN’T! THE WAY UNEMPLOYMENT IS MEASURED HAS CHANGED, roughly by the same proportions that we changed from inches to centimetres, but which didn’t mean we suddenly got people who were 20 feet tall.
If only people would read this blog a bit more the world would be a more factually detailed place.
Though possibly a lot duller, and with less very, very tall people.
Actually, comrade, I’m not sure there was any confusion, nor even a dispute about numbers. The issue was whether Lamont, Toynbee or Lansley thought the price of unemployment was one worth paying.
Bob
Not direct confusion on your blog, I accept readily -I was actually referring to Dizzy’s linked post in which s/he is clearly comparing directly the 3 million Polly Toynbee refers to (ILO measurement) and the 3 million under the Tories (old measurement retained by the Tories despite everyone else in Europe using the ILO measure). Godzilla was, how shall we say kindly, struggling to keep up.
As ever! Cheers.