Slight rise in Isle of Wight unemployment

I have noticed a rise in the number of bored teenagers with nothing to do and no future.
We will need more police soon to control their eventual delinquency...

Hmm! Looking at that graph and the recurrent trend over the past three years, one could almost conclude that the rises and falls coincide exactly with the length of a tourist season! This years increase in jobless figures during August may have something to do with the abysmal summer we had and island organisations not being able to afford to keep staff on. Hopefully our new tourism tsar will sort all of this out and we will not see the dips and peaks repeated year on year.

So, 22 people with disabilities have been told they are now fit to work after attending a joke medical at Broadlands house involving lifting a pile of books, sitting down, standing up etc.
I saw on TV recently about ATOS who do these tests that if someones disablity involves having 9 fingers missing, they can still get a job as a button tester with the remaining finger.
It is a joke.

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