JP Ahearne Reform UK

08/06/2026

THE TRUTH ABOUT BRITAIN'S JOB MARKET

The latest KPMG/REC Report on Jobs makes for grim reading and it's a direct result of both the Labour and Conservative governments failed policies.

Permanent job placements have now FALLEN FOR 44 CONSECUTIVE MONTHS. That's nearly 4 years of decline. The longest stretch of contraction since records began in 1997.

Businesses are scared to hire. Higher taxes, new employment red tape, rising costs all landing on the backs of employers who just want to get on with it. The result? 705,000 job vacancies the lowest in FIVE YEARS. Outside the pandemic, the lowest in over 11 YEARS. Wages? Growing at near post-pandemic lows. Earnings growth predicted to fall to just 3% in the coming months.

Meanwhile candidate numbers are rising sharply because redundancies are going UP and job security is going DOWN.

Labour promised to grow the economy. Instead they've destroyed it.

Reform UK stands for cutting the red tape, lowering the burden on businesses and getting Britain back to work.Enough is enough. It's time for real change.

Source: KPMG & REC UK Report on Jobs, May 2026

08/06/2026

Disaster!

Britain's debt-to-GDP ratio has climbed from 30.4 per cent to 95.5 per cent today

05/06/2026

04/06/2026

04/06/2026

Britain now has more than a million young people not in education, employment or training.

Businesses are cutting costs. Apprenticeships are harder to find. Employers are being hit with higher taxes and rising employment costs. Directors and business owners are digging deeper into their pockets just to keep people in work.

So what do we see from Thames Water?

A careers event aimed at helping refugees into employment.

Now, I dont personally begrudge anyone wanting to work and contribute. But you have to ask the question.

Where is the same urgency for Britain's own young people?

A teenager born and raised here, desperately looking for an apprenticeship or first job, is told opportunities are limited and the market is tough.

Yet organisations seem able to find the time, money and resources for targeted schemes aimed elsewhere.

That frustration isn't about resentment. It's about priorities.

Labour talks endlessly about inclusion, but too often the people who have paid into the system for generations feel like they're at the back of the queue.

It talks about opportunity while youth unemployment climbs and more than a million young people remain detached from work and education.

Britain doesn't have a shortage of talent.

It has a shortage of common sense and a political class that seems increasingly disconnected from the concerns of ordinary working people.

The utility firm vowed to 'improve workforce diversity' as Zia Yusuf warned Britons were being 'pushed to the back of the queue'

02/06/2026

Labour’s attitude now seems pretty simple:

If you work hard, save a few quid, try to get ahead and build something for your family they’ll find a way to tax it.

Put money into an ISA? They’re looking at that.

Pay into a pension so you’re not skint when you retire? They want a slice of that too.

Scrape and sacrifice to send your kids to a decent school? They whack VAT on the fees and dump more pressure onto state schools already bursting at the seams.

It’s backwards.

Millions of people already aren’t saving enough for retirement, yet Labour’s answer seems to be making pension saving less attractive for ordinary workers.

You’d think a government would want people to stand on their own two feet, save responsibly and plan for the future.

But Labour seem to view anyone with a bit of independence or ambition as someone who needs “fairer taxation”.

The message is clear:
Work hard, do the right thing, try to better yourself… and eventually Labour will come after that as well.

Because the more people rely on the state, the better it is for politicians who want more control over everyday life.

02/06/2026

Labour promised “growth.”

What Britain is getting is rising unemployment, hiring freezes, collapsing confidence and businesses cutting back.

Now forecasts are warning unemployment could hit its highest level in 14 years, with hundreds of thousands more people out of work by the end of this Parliament.

As somebody who actually runs a recruitment business, none of this surprises me.

Higher National Insurance.
Higher wage costs.
More regulation.
More pressure on employers.

And then Labour wonder why firms stop hiring.

Young people are getting hit hardest too, with youth unemployment already surging as entry-level jobs disappear.

Britain cannot tax and regulate its way to prosperity.

We need a government that backs enterprise, rewards work and understands that without profitable businesses, there are no jobs, no growth and no future.

Jobless total is set to rise to two million by 2028 as youth unemployment surges

01/06/2026

40 sexual offences against children, all committed by 7 Afghan illegal immigrants that broke into this country and were given refugee status.

01/06/2026

Ffs that poor young lad. Sorry this country failed you. RIP Henry Nowak