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Britain’s unemployment rate has edged up to the highest level in over four years, official data showed Tuesday, adding to the country’s economic strains ahead of the government’s annual budget.

The rate reached 4.8 percent in the three months to the end of August — the highest level since the first half of 2021, the Office for National Statistics said in a statement.

That compared with unemployment at 4.7 percent in the three months to the end of July, the ONS added in a statement.

The data comes as Britain endures stagnant growth and stubbornly-high inflation, around six weeks before the Labour government sets out its latest tax and spending plans.

“The latest statistics… show some significant cracks are forming in the UK labour market,” noted Richard Carter, analyst at investment manager Quilter Cheviot.

“With the budget looming, this is likely to continue. Higher… (taxes) have placed a significant burden on businesses already this year, so they will likely hold off on any major hiring plans until they know with certainty whether any further changes lie ahead.”

Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/10/uk-unemployment-hits-highest-in-over-four-years/

Why is the UK experiencing unemployment?

Is it because all countries are now independent and there's no country to steal their resources anymore?

While American and Chinese companies are conquering the world, I don't know what exactly the British companies are doing.

Is it because all countries are now independent and there's no country to steal their resources anymore? cheesy

While American and Chinese companies are conquering the world, I don't know what

I hope they don't descend on blacks. Make them no do mass deportation

SmartPolician:
Why is the UK experiencing unemployment?

Is it because all countries are now independent and there's no country to steal their resources anymore?

While American and Chinese companies are conquering the world, I don't know what exactly the British companies are doing.

massive immigration of our people and people from other countries to the UK (probably)

There is one thing I tell people:

[b]There is no fear about the demography of any nation changing to a strange one (e.g., the one that Europe, particularly the UK and France, is changing to).
One of the reasons why there is no fear of such people controlling powerful systems, tech, money, armies, etc. of these countries is that the first thing they will do after taking over such a nation is to destroy it. They will literally turn it into a third-world powerless nation like the one they fled from.
An example is Afghanistan: the United States left a massive cache of military hardware, which puts them as the most powerful nation in the Middle East after Israel. Do you know what they did next? The ones they couldn't use, they burned and destroyed, calling it haram.



If you put such equipment in the hands of people with half the IQ of Hebrews, they would have made a powerful and dangerous nation.
So, generally, there is no fear of any demography taking over the West.
Dash Hamas or Hezbollah the whole of the American military today, and they will turn it into the equivalence of the Houthis militia[/b]



Now that explains to you what is happening to the UK

zero8zero:
No way, this can only happen in Nigeria. See what INEC and corrupt judiciary have put the people of UK into.

At least their youth has been in school studying and non of them is paid 30k to support one block head old man who doesn't know his left or right in government.


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I think our dear kemkem has the solution. Just make her the prime minister already and see wonders! ..🤔

Who cares...better than Nigeria unemployment

Choose your unemployment carefully

Great100000:
Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/10/uk-unemployment-hits-highest-in-over-four-years/

FAKE! FAKE!! na una no wan WORK oo, una wan jus dey on BENEFITS

zero8zero:
No way, this can only happen in Nigeria. See what INEC and corrupt judiciary have put the people of UK into.

una go just GET small tansho DATA dey begin TWEET!
what's the PERCENTAGE of 9ja wey enter uk last 1 year? compared to ASIANS ? 9ja wey no reach150k sef!

zero8zero:
No way, this can only happen in Nigeria. See what INEC and corrupt judiciary have put the people of UK into.

Someone should check on this writer

Does there visa blablabla have anything to do with it?

This is expected with the mass influx of immigrants into the country,

Unfortunately, the UK is more service oriented than production and now with the population influx, it gets worse.

There are still jobs but are backbreaking ones!

Unfortunately, we have more 9-5s oriented people than enterprenuers owing to their system

4.8 .. When Nigeria has about? 50% of employable men jobless. Nonsense

zero8zero:
No way, this can only happen in Nigeria. See what INEC and corrupt judiciary have put the people of UK into.

At least, their recognized unemployed get benefits but not happening in Nigeria, what INEC and corrupt judiciary have put the vulnerable people of Nigeria into.

It is better to be unemploy in UK than to be unemploy in Nigeria.

Blaming it on immigration is oversimplifying. Though, net migration is high, but the UK's service-heavy economy has been struggling post-Brexit with trade barriers and labor shortages in key sectors like hospitality and healthcare.

But with their inflation still biting and growth flatlining...
that's why businesses are holding back on hiring until the budget drops; that uncertainty is killer for the job market.

Automation and AI are displacing jobs too, not just immigrants.
All the same, they need fairer immigration policies that match job creation
s.

Yorubastardz:
Is it because all countries are now independent and there's no country to steal their resources anymore? cheesy

While American and Chinese companies are conquering the world, I don't know what

America is also experiencing the most unemployment since 2022.

CoronaVirusPro:
Lekki phase 3 has bitten more than it can chew.

At this point, They need a leader like His Excellency, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR) to get them out of the mess.

Immigration at all time highs with job creation at all time low already guarantees economic doom.

you didnt notice that your own union member zero8zero is not doing well.they have not paid him

Everyday247:
massive immigration of our people and people from other countries to the UK (probably)

What "massive immigration"?

The British population is still overwhelmingly native-born British to the tune of 98% or more.

Unemployment has nothing do with immigrants. There were even more immigrants there when Unemployment was low. Before Brexit, ie their exit from EU.

The idea of blaming immigrants for Unemployment is an American Trump MAGA racist concept.

The same American WHITES are now crying on TikTok that they have no one to work their farms as all the immigrants are gone due to Trump.

And those dumb whites actually voted for Trump out of hatred for non whites, including their own employees and farm workers.

I had to fact check the op info and The Guardian published a similar article a few months ago. Seems the UK and France have similar economic issues this year.


https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/13/uk-unemployment-rises-ons-job-vacancies

Even the unemployment in USA is very high especially in corporate America.

Yorubastardz:
Is it because all countries are now independent and there's no country to steal their resources anymore? cheesy

While American and Chinese companies are conquering the world, I don't know what

You got it wrong.
It is their exit from EU (Brexit) that is affecting them.
A lot of companies that had their European head office or operations previously located in UK have now moved to other countries in Europe e.g. Germany, Netherlands etc. thereby leading to movement of thousands of jobs from UK to other countries.

Great100000:
Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/10/uk-unemployment-hits-highest-in-over-four-years/

Britain hasn't realised enough the calamities that the Moslems have brought to her.
In nearest moment, it shall get worse.

The United Kingdom shot itself in the leg with Brexit!
I hope Trump is learning from Britain with his harsh policies on immigration and taxes.

4.8 na em high?
Come Naija come see 90.5%, the remaining 9.5% must support APC or they will be jobless too lol

SmartPolician:
Why is the UK experiencing unemployment?

Is it because all countries are now independent and there's no country to steal their resources anymore?

While American and Chinese companies are conquering the world, I don't know what exactly the British companies are doing.

It may be because they accepted too many almanjiris from Islamic countries into the UK to come and work

Trump warned these people but they never listened. Trump has never been wrong