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Hounslow…you’re fired!

By Ben | September 16, 2009

Time for our quarterly look at unemployment with the news that in the three months to July the total number of jobless rose by a massive (and scary) 210,000, the equivalent of the entire population of an outer London borough.
Over to you Lord Sugar: ”Hounslow…you’re fired.”
         

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Cardiff…you’re fired!

By Ben | July 15, 2009

On Radio 4 this morning there was more talk about green shoots. But as is always the case with recessions, unemployment tends to lag behind any upturn (and I am not convinced that it’s over yet). As if to illustrate the point, we learn today that in the three months to May 281,000 people have lost [...]

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Newport Pagnell…you’re fired

By Ben | May 16, 2009

Earlier this week, British Telecom announced a further 15,000 redundancies.  To put that in context, imagine if Sir Alan Sugar addressed every man and woman in Newport Pagnell with his customary charm:
“Newport Pagnell…this task has been a bloody disaster from beginning to end.  You’re fired”
And lest anyone is tempted to comment ‘no bad thing’, remember [...]

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