Comments on: Dave’s “broken” Britain: Part 1 http://www.belittlebritain.org/2007/09/05/about-that-broken-society-part-1/ Tories running Britain down to win cheap votes Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:41:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: G Smith http://www.belittlebritain.org/2007/09/05/about-that-broken-society-part-1/#comment-9 G Smith Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:30:31 +0000 http://www.belittlebritain.org/2007/09/05/about-that-broken-society-part-1/#comment-9 Even my fairly untrained eye can see that there is no correlation between Spam's statement and your graph. Or perhaps you can explain how it refutes his statement? Many of those jobs may have gone to Poles etc. Secondly, is it possible to get a breakdown of how many of these newly created jobs are real jobs and how many are public sector non-jobs? I'm no economist but my initial thought is that job creation is a fairly crude method of measuring economic health. A better way, surely, is to look at the number of bankruptcies. Any data on those? Best regards Even my fairly untrained eye can see that there is no correlation between Spam’s statement and your graph. Or perhaps you can explain how it refutes his statement? Many of those jobs may have gone to Poles etc.

Secondly, is it possible to get a breakdown of how many of these newly created jobs are real jobs and how many are public sector non-jobs?

I’m no economist but my initial thought is that job creation is a fairly crude method of measuring economic health. A better way, surely, is to look at the number of bankruptcies. Any data on those?

Best regards

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