What is humiliating is to have a government that cuts a half-million public-sector jobs and causes the loss of another half-million jobs in the private sector. In an economy of 30 million jobs, that translates into an increase in the unemployment rate of 3.5 percentage points – at a time when no sources of expanding private-sector demand exist to pick up the slack.
什么是真正使政府蒙羞之事？是削减50万个公务部门职位，是令私人部门再增加50万个失业人数。整个英国总共只有3 000万工作人口，公私部门各减50万个工作岗位相当于使失业率提高了3.5个百分点——而这还发生在私人部门需求扩张无力、不能再经受折腾之时。这可不是英国的光荣。