There are now 7.8 million part-time workers in the UK – the largest figure since in 25 years ago.
Over the last twelve months 468,000 less workers are employed in full-time work but 255,000 have become part-time. The situation is expected to deteriorate considerably as public sector job losses increase.
The Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, says he’s planning to ‘relocate’ the unemployed to parts of the country to where there is work. His This plan resembles Norman Tebbit’s call for the jobless to ‘get on their bikes’ to find work in the 1980s.
They are expecting an ‘explosion’ of travellers looking for job offerings around the UK within the next year, especially since this program is offering to pay for peoples’ travels.
“It is worth our while to pay travel expenses for skilled, part-time gold traders,” said Mr Nicholson. “In some instances we are paying for representatives to travel up to 500 miles a week.”
Ounces2Pounds is Smith’s program. This program introduced the American phenomenon of gold parties to Britain over a year ago and Mark Nicholson is convinced that they have only scratched the surface of the UK market.
“The deeper the recession bites and the higher the spot price of gold rises the more popular our parties become,” he said.
