Stats Jamie

18/06/2026

🚨 New - The UK now has 192,000 fewer payrolled employees than when Labour took office.

That’s not growth.

That’s employers cutting back.

When you make hiring more expensive, don’t be surprised when businesses hire fewer people.

💷 Jobs tax up
📉 Payroll jobs down
🍽️ Hospitality hit
🛒 Retail hit
🏭 Manufacturing hit

Rachel Reeves needs to resign — for the sake of the UK.

Her economic plan is failing in the real world, and working people are paying the price.

Is this what Labour meant by growth?

16/06/2026

🚨 New PIP figures are out — and the benefit has now hit 4 million claimants in England and Wales.

That’s up 86,000 in just three months — and 266,000 in a year.

This is now one of the biggest pressure points in Britain’s welfare system.

Of those on PIP:

👥 3.3 million are working age
🏅 37% receive the highest award
🧠 39% of normal-rules cases list psychiatric disorder as the main condition

The big question is this:

Are we tackling the causes of this crisis — or just managing the bill?

15/06/2026

🚨 To Ban Children From Social Media, Will Starmer Verify Every Adult?

The harms facing children online are real.

But the government’s own representative polling found only 16% of parents ranked a total ban as their first choice.

Most preferred targeted restrictions on the riskiest features or limits on screen time.

And to enforce the ban, millions of adults may have to prove their age through facial scans, photo ID or digital credentials.

That raises a much bigger question: could child protection become the route to normalising digital ID checks across the adult internet?

I’ve broken down the consultation, Australia’s experience and what this policy could mean for everyone online.

Sensible protection - or a step too far?

👇Read more

Starmer says the ban will protect children. But his own consultation preferred targeted restrictions, while millions of adults may have to prove their age online.

13/06/2026

🚨 Britain’s economy went backwards in April.

GDP fell 0.1%.

The figure may be revised, and the Iran conflict has pushed up fuel and energy costs.

But the wider warning signs were already there:

📉 Jobs weakening
💷 Borrowing above forecast
⚡ Energy costs still too high
📊 Growth remaining sluggish

I joined GB News to explain why Britain needs a credible growth plan — and why cheaper energy could be one of the most effective tax cuts for households and businesses.

How would you get Britain growing again?

13/06/2026

🚨 A new tax year — but Britain’s economy is already stalling.

GDP fell 0.1% in April. Services fell. Production was flat. Hiring is weakening. Borrowing came in above forecast.

We have:

💷 Historically high taxes
⚡ Expensive energy
📉 Falling vacancies
👷 More than one million young people outside work or education

Even senior Labour figures have privately questioned whether the government has a coherent growth strategy.

What would you prioritise first: lower taxes, cheaper energy or cutting government spending?

GDP fell as the new tax year began, while taxes stayed high, hiring weakened and even senior Labour figures questioned the government’s growth strategy.

12/06/2026

From statistician mode to football chairman mode.

Time for the annual football presentations.

12/06/2026

🚨 Breaking - Britain’s economy went backwards in April.

📉 GDP fell 0.1%
🏪 Services fell 0.2%
🏭 Production was flat
🏗️ Construction rose just 0.1%

Rachel Reeves promised growth.

Instead, the economy is stalling.

At what point does Labour admit its economic plan is not working?

11/06/2026

🚨 Wales has changed politically — and the numbers are stark.

The headline result was huge, but the deeper story is inside the breakdown of how different groups voted:

🟢 Plaid Cymru hit 60% among 16–29 year olds
🔵 Reform UK led every age group over 50
🔴 Labour did not lead a single age group
🏴 Fluent Welsh speakers went heavily Plaid
📊 Lower-education voters went heavily Reform

This was not just a normal election swing.

It looks like Wales is splitting politically by age, education, identity and trust.

Young Wales is moving towards Plaid.
Older Wales is moving towards Reform.
Labour is caught in the middle.

https://www.statsjamie.co.uk/p/the-political-earthquake-hidden-inside

What do you think is driving this divide in Wales?

Behind Plaid Cymru’s victory and Reform’s surge sits a deeper story: Wales is splitting into two political electorates, and Labour no longer leads either.

09/06/2026

🚨 | New - Britain Is Getting Sicker Younger — And The NHS Is Paying The Price

📌 More childhood obesity
📌 Higher adolescent mental ill-health
📌 Diabetes rising earlier in life
📌 Healthy life expectancy down to around 61 years

Less movement. More screens. More processed food. Less routine.

The NHS has become a repair shop for a broken society.

Are we now seeing the health consequences of a more indoor, screen-heavy childhood?

New research suggests younger generations may spend more years in poor health than those before them. This is not just an NHS crisis. It is a society crisis.

06/06/2026

🚨 300,000 households in Britain where work has never existed — the highest on record.

Not students.
Not people between jobs.
Not a temporary blip.

Households where nobody has ever worked.

Inside them:

👥 429,000 adults
🧒 221,000 children

And across Britain, around 3.1 million working-age households now have nobody in work.

This is not just unemployment.

It is worklessness becoming embedded.

At some point, government has to answer a serious question:

💷 Is the system helping people back into work — or turning worklessness into a lifestyle?