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We won’t be forgetting Aviva here in a hurry

Posted at 10:27pm on Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 by

Aviva (formerly Norwich Union, formerly General Accident) is axing another 1,100 jobs, of which 570 are in York.  York’s already borne the brunt of NU’s consolidation in 2 previous rounds of heavy job losses.

With the loss of Terry’s chocolate, the huge reduction in Nestlé’s operations, the closure of the British Sugar plant (now we have no chocolate), the migration of huge chunks of the railway and Aviva’s previous consolidation we’ve lost thousands of jobs in the last few years.

In a city of only 100,000 that’s an awful lot of jobs to go. Losing another 570 today is a very heavy blow.

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What is wrong with this picture?

Posted at 10:22am on Friday, August 22nd, 2008 by

This BBC news story “illustrates why UK families are under pressure” (apparently). That image is the first piece in a bunch of infographics ably demonstrating their point.  What confuses me is this…

How many families pay for their food and petrol with capital from their houses?

That graphic, like so much reporting around this topic from the BBC, is a) meaningless and b) designed to scare. Tossers.

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