It seems to me that the nature of the ultimate revolution with which we are now faced is precisely this: That we are in process of developing a whole series of techniques which will enable the controlling oligarchy who have always existed and presumably will always exist to get people to love their servitude. (Aldous Huxley)
When Labour came to office in 1997, unemployment across the U.K. was close to 2 million. In 2004 the Government was claiming that unemployment was down to less than a million, the lowest for 29 years. In April 2004, government figures put the unemployment rate, which counts those claiming jobless benefits, at just 2.9 percent. This enabled the Government to claim that unemployment was at the lowest level for almost three decades. However, this figure of 2.9 percent did not match with the 4.7 percent calculation made by the International Labour Organization. There was certainly no shortage of people in work; according to U.K. government statistics, total employment had reached a record 28.4 million in 2003.
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