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  Any improvement in employment figures is to be welcomed of course, but it shows just how economic expectations have fallen when just 6,000 people have found employment over a full three months and it is seen as some kind of salvation.
  
  If you look closely at the Market Statistics it is not so rosy. Unemployment was expected to rise, it has done and will carry on rising.
  
  The employment figures are misleading.
  
  The UK economy is still contracting, though that decline has slowed.
  
  Vacancies fell by 1,000 and are at their lowest since records began.
  
  Economic inactivity rose again, but only by 0.1 per cent this time demonstrating my point.
  
  You must place these figures in perspective too. This is the season to be merry and an increase in employment is perfectly normal at this time, many of these jobs will fade away in the New Year.
  
  So one cheer for the 6,000 - while this country still languishes in recession while the other major developed nations have started the climb back months ago....

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