Unemployment - it's all down to Johnny Foreigner

According to that rather sound Chris Grayling fella, the reason for UK unemployment rising by 114,000 between June and August to 2.57 million (a 17-year high) is all down to those dashed eurozone chappies.

As he also quite reasonably spelled out, the important reason why we are pursuing deficit reduction is to “retain the confidence of commercial markets, and to encourage businesses to set up in the UK”.

But wouldn’t you know it, those weak-kneed nellies over at the British Chambers of Commerce have came up with almost the opposite and even had the cheek to suggest that deliberate government dismantling of the public sector means less contracts for private sector firms and unemployment – BAE Systems being a case in point, according to the long-haired lefties.

Never mind the blasted quantitative easing or whatever you call it. At this rate we’ll have to damn well go out and invade someone. Now …who have we got left?