Posted on 12/15/2020 8:51:54 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
LONDON (AP) – The number of people in the U.K. who lost their jobs hit a record high in the three months through October during the run-up to the planned ending of a government salary support scheme, official figures showed Tuesday.
The Office for National Statistics said redundancies reached 370,000 in the August to October period, a record for a three-month period. At the end of October, the British government had been planning to end the Job Retention Scheme, which saw it pay the majority of the salaries of people who had become idle due to the coronavirus pandemic but were kept on payroll by firms.
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It’s time to change my tag line to what I’m finding myself saying in every thread about this...
I heard Trump personally infected masks with covid, then sold them to the brits
"U.K. SEEKS record job losses."
Not to worry, they’ll just raise taxes on the survivors to ensure the budgets will be met incl. the queen’s salary.
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