the same period last year. At the present moment 10,000 manufacturing jobs are being lost each month.
             Up until the 1970s, the UK experienced full employment. There was some unemployment - about 2% - but this was almost entirely due to people taking a break from employment to look for a better job. The 1980s saw millions added to the dole queues as the then-prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, kept interest rates high in order to squeeze inflation. Also the Thatcher Government shut down all the coal mines industries and shot up the unemployment figures as these people were finding it difficult to find jobs as they had fewer qualifications.
             From the 1990s there has been higher wages and this has lowered the unemployment figures. The moderate trend in the grow
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