The problem with creating jobs is that government cannot create jobs, state sector jobs are a drain on the wealth creating sector and the bigger the state sector the small the private sector becomes because it is the private sector which generates the wealth for the state sector to gobble up. The only way you will create jobs and a real economy is by cutting the public sector right back (because we cant afford it this big, its an economic fact of life) which would then allow you to lower taxes and thus more private sector jobs come into being.
The period under the last government was high unemployment throughout its term, even though it created hundreds of thousands/millions of public sector jobs which of course in turn ended in the closing of the private sector as it could not afford the tax burden levied on it. I mean you only have to look at real unemployment figures to see that when Thatcher cut the state sector (hence the large peak in unemployment) the recovery was by the private sector which prospered thanks to her tax cuts and the ending of masses and masses of red tape and regulation which stifles growth;
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Thatcher 1979 to 1990
Major/Blair and Brown 1990 onwards
Then again, we can't cut regulation now because we have political parties in office which are dedicated to big government and government interference (the Lib/Lab/Con) along with regulation which comes from the European Union which we have no control over and no powers to prevent until we leave the ridiculous thing.
What a mess.
