Well that's what it feels like,
Today I had another chat at the Jobcentre. It seems the job situation in Northern Ireland is much grimmer than the statistics would suggest. Why do I know this? Well this centre is being swamped with new applicants. This time last year they had 600 people claiming. Now? It's closer to 2000. It's become so bad that they've had to introduce signing monthly rather than the usual fortnightly to cope. Perhaps, I said, they could employ some of the unemployed to help out until the "green shots" of recovery are a bit more tangible than the smoke and mirror recovery the media are determined to talk up.
The silent response spoke volumes.
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