Nottingham - worst unemployment figures

[JHE]

The state of the job market is grim, grim, grim, but I would not have guessed that Nottingham - dear old, good old, bad old, student-infested, crime-ridden, vomit-specked, friendly, drunken, chatty Snottingham - has the worst unemployment rate in the UK, but, according to today's Nottingham Post, that is a finding of a report produced by the GMB.

The figures – put out by the GMB union and based on official Government statistics – show the city council area with an unemployment rate of 14.8 per cent for last year, compared to a national rate of 7.8 per cent.

See: http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Unemployment-figures-wake/story-13192794-detail/story.html

Graham Chapman's argument is good fun:

City council deputy leader Graham Chapman said the unemployment rate is not representative of the local economy because the city's boundaries exclude adjacent districts such as Gedling and Rushcliffe.

Compare: I sometimes think am badly paid, but I'm not really. If you take into account my two much better paid neighbours, the average income of the three of us is not too bad.

 

[starfish2000]

well given most of their employers are public sector who are cutting jobs. Im so not surprised really.

 

[spawnofsatan]

Its just as grim in Rushcliffe

 

[Maidmarian]

Its even more grim in Rushcliffe

Fixed !

 

[8ball]

Aye - heavy reliance on public sector plus all the old industries either dead or in decline. Even fucking scummy Experian...

 

[OneStrike]

Whats it like in Nottingham now then? Experian gone? I left as Boots and Capital One were laying people off in the hundreds, the city centre was still buzzing with life though.

 

[8ball]

Experian still limping along, Boots and Cap One in near-terminal decline. A few pharmaceutical contractors knocking about (a couple still hiring). Loads of unused office space above city centre properties and more and more empty units in the centre. Not looking great. On the bright side, bound to have some great bands coming along any second.

 

[spawnofsatan]

Fixed !

Rushcliffe isn't going to exist for much longer, good job I live in the blot of the borough

 

[Maidmarian]

Rushcliffe isn't going to exist for much longer, good job I live in the blot of the borough

Really? What's happening ?

 

[spawnofsatan]

http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/M...d-Rushcliffe/story-13320405-detail/story.html

 

[8ball]

Experian have just announced another big job cull..

 

[spawnofsatan]

Experian have just announced another big job cull..

 

[Maidmarian]

http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/M...d-Rushcliffe/story-13320405-detail/story.html

Hurrah !!!

 

[spawnofsatan]

Hurrah !!!

Fuck you!

 

[Random]

I'm liking JHE's affectionare description of Nottingham, btw, not the poverty figures. Nottingham is, imo, the most perfect town in the UK. Or maybe I just think that because I moved there from Manchester.

 

[Maidmarian]

Nottingham's OK.

 

[stuff_it]

I'm liking JHE's affectionare description of Nottingham, btw, not the poverty figures. Nottingham is, imo, the most perfect town in the UK. Or maybe I just think that because I moved there from Manchester.

It's not what it used to be

 

[spawnofsatan]

Nottingham's OK.

I like it, though I prefer to live outside it.

 

[Maidmarian]

I like it, though I prefer to live outside it.

Yep , me too ---but I'm 'tother side of the river from you.

 

[Supine]

I'm in Notts and have a job. Lots of shops and pubs have shut over the last few years

 

[Maidmarian]

I'm in Notts and have a job. Lots of shops and pubs have shut over the last few years

Yep, but that's true all over the UK.

 

[spawnofsatan]

There must be 8 mobile phone shops on the way up from Broadmarsh to the square, its insane.

 

[spawnofsatan]

Notts meet anyone?

 

[8ball]

Someone suggests a meet every couple of years - every so often one even happens.

I'd be up for that.

 

[Maidmarian]

OK ---where & when ? (am away 'till next weekend btw).

 

[JHE]

Britain's poorest city...

The average income per individual householder after tax, but including benefits, is £16,034 a year. In Nottingham it is £10,834. Recent statistics from the Office for National Statistics suggest residents of this city have the lowest household disposable income of anywhere in the UK.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22623964

There are some grim areas, including much of the Meadows, the area that stars in that Beeb report, but I really wouldn't have guessed it had the lowest income. Poor old Snottingham!

 

[Supine]

The meadows is a small area of Nottingham. Surely every city has similar areas.

Quality of life here is great

 

[JHE]

Yes. The Meadows is chosen by the Beeb to illustrate the story, though. The headline and the main claim is about the city as a whole, not about that one neighbourhood.

I'm really not sure about your claim about the quality of life. I like Nottingham, I really do, but...

 

[Roadkill]

I'm genuinely surprised to learn that - on one measure at least - Nottingham is the poorest city in the country. I know it's not doing brilliantly in economic terms, but when I saw that Beeb headline I really did think it was going to be about Hull...

 

[Supine]

Nottingham is only 20th poorest place to live using this method:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/mar/29/indices-multiple-deprivation-poverty-england