1 job loss every 30 seconds

Unemployment is now at a 12-year high of 2.26 million in UK

Unemployment is now at a 12-year high of 2.26 million in UK

According to figures released yesterday, unemployment in the UK has soared to a 12-year high of 2.26 million after a record number of people lost their jobs.

With one job lost every 30 seconds and the total rising to 232,000 in the three months to April, Labour
MP Lindsay Hoyle yesterday said, "the rise is very worrying.
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YOU ARE FIRED! Increasing job losses have left Britishers edgy.

Unemployment is biting all parts of the economy."Britain's conservative party has published an analysis of job losses by region showing how professionals and other workers have been hit by the economic downturn.

In London and the South-East of England, the number of directors and chief executives claiming jobseekers' allowance was 570 in April, a 200 per cent rise on a year earlier.

Work and Pensions Secretary Yvette Cooper said, "Families across Britain are continuing to feel the consequences of the global recession.
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Unemployment has increased in Britain and across the world, although it is lower here than in US and the euro zone."

It is also learnt that fast food giant McDonald's is receiving 2,200 job applications each day, with inquiries from graduates, bank workers and teachers desperate for a low-paid "McJob".

McDonald's said they were not surprised they were receiving thousands of applications a day because of the recession.

Meanwhile, it has been revealed in an example of reverse discrimination, that British police are searching white people in the UK under terror laws "simply to provide racial balance to statistics".

Terror law watchdog Lord Carlile said yesterday police are targeting people they have no reason to suspect to avoid being accused of prejudice.

But, he added, that their tactic of 'self-evidently unmerited searches' was a waste of money, a breach of civil liberties and 'almost certainly unlawful'.

"It is totally wrong for any person to be stopped in order to produce a racial balance in the statistics. There is ample anecdotal evidence that this is happening," he said.

Carlile, a Liberal Democrat peer and QC, condemned the misuse of the law in his annual report on anti-terror laws.

He wrote of cases 'where the person stopped is so obviously far from any known terrorism profile that, realistically there is not the slightest possibility of him/her being a terrorist, and no other feature to justify
the stop'.

Officers used the powers to search 125,000 people in 2007-08, up from 42,000 the year before. Only one per
cent of the searches led to an arrest, leading to claims it was being overused.