The post you are reporting:
Jan.
I would love to be upbeat about employment rising, it would be a move in the right direction for everyone. However, in the same report that Howard lifted this thread from, goes on to say,
"Meanwhile, the number of unemployed rose by 112,000 over the month to 2.57 million, following a 29,000 rise in September. According to this series, the unemployment rate has crept up over the past three months to 8.2 per cent, rather than falling to 7.8 per cent as the main ONS release suggested"
Also I cannot get excited about,
#9 "many have been moved out of sickness to jobseekers and that makes the figures even more impressive"
Moving people from one benefit to another is not impressive.
Moving them into employment would be impressive,though.