I was interviewed yesterday for the Wales on Sunday on the growing economic problem in Wales where I thought that unemployment would hit 125,000 by next Easter. However, could it get much worse? An article in the Telegraph suggests that at least 1.5 million jobs could be lost over the next two years. If this applies to Wales, it could add another 75,000 to the unemployment register by 2010, taking...

Rhodri Morgan AM said there are currently some 50,000 job vacancies across Wales, while Peter Hain MP said there are 23,000 job vacancies today in Wales. The Bevan Foundation makes a 5-myth list, which include. There are plenty of jobs; people just don't take them. Dr Winckler says: "2,000 jobs do not make a boom, the number of jobs in Merthyr and Blaenau Gwent has still not recovered from many ye...

The Tory led coalition Government have unleashed savage cuts on Croydon with our Town receiving the highest level of cuts of any outer London borough and the 2nd highest in London. HEADLINE CUTS: * £2.97 Million from Education. * £169,000 from Supporting People. * £1.943 Million from LEGI programme – business and jobs funding. * £18,000 from Community Cohesion. * &pou...

English Labour MP’s wanted to lose the general election just to get rid of Gordon Brown and not to face up to future cuts. They left Wales to the mercy of a Tory government, knowing that they will cut public spending and public jobs. New Labour has forsaken the poor in Wales for internal bickering and election.

Up to 21,000 public sector jobs could be lost in Wales over four years, warns a spending watchdog, who says the health service is already struggling for cash.

Wales has lost 10,000 public sector jobs in a year despite "getting off relatively lightly" from UK government spending cuts so far, a report warns.

"Standing up for Wales", the latest Labour election slogan. Where have you been for the last 12 years. Did they stand up for the Burberry workers, the Woolworth workers and other Welsh workers who lost their jobs within the last 12 years. Labour in Wales didn't want to rock the Labour government boat in London. Labour in Wales have proved they were puppets to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, thei...

Since Labour took office, the number of people working in the public sector has grown by 600,000. Figures released a few days ago by the Office for National Statistics showed that while people are losing their jobs in the private sector, public sector employment increased by 13,000 in the second quarter of 2008 to 5.771 million. In 1997, the number was 5.173 million. Philip Johnston- Telegraph Goo...

Labour have promised they will help with the creation of as many as 50,000 jobs in Wales if they are re-elected.

Should anyone a marvellous example of profilgacy in Government spending I draw your attention to the public inquiry into the Longdendale bypass also known as the A57/A628 Mottram-Tintwistle bypass. The public inquiry opened on the 26th June 2007, according to the Government it has sat for 15 days since then and the total cost to the public purse so far is £16,000,000. That's about a million pound...