2million officially unemployed by Christmas. Plus half of the 3 million claiming incapacity benefit who actually could work; plus goodness knows how many on various work experience schemes. Gordon & Labour have driven this country into the ground. Shame we can't make 300 Labour MPs redundant as well

Donna Walker, Effingham, England

You can't buck the market with Bank bailouts or job creation; a simple lesson from our greatest PM of recent years Margaret Thatcher.

john, milton keynes,

please can someone explain how a service economy without an industry to sservice can exist when it has transferred its technology abroad ??

christopher murley, arthenac, france

Brown said the government were going to launch projects to employ people to insulate people's homes.I worked doing exactly that nearly 30 years ago,it was a Tory Government scheme that kept me off of the unemployment figures for a year and very little else,Labour at the time slated such schemes.

Dave, Plymouth,

Gordons constituents get free prescriptions his kids will get free university education his old people will get free nursing home care. We will never get rid of Scotland now, they know when they are on to a good thing.
SO WHEN DO WE MEET AND DEMONSTRATE IN LONDON
we English used to be much braver.

GM Garratt, Rugby, England

Does anybody have the figures for how many people working and how many people on the take in the UK including unemployment ,sick ,incapacity ,asylum seekers etc.

andy, poole, dorset

My God, we're in a mess. I can't see any way out of it. We don't have the required wealth production, or it gets throttled by EU regulations. We've been mismanaged for years. What are we to do?
Welfare state, economy, immigration, debt levels.
The Labour party are pathetic. Where do you start?

Np, England, UK

Surely in 2008 the banks and mortgage companies could come up with a rent back scheme, until the people concerned financial stata improved. Instead of repossessing houses from families which does nobody any good least of all any children involved, and puts more of a tax burden on everyone.

Ed Chalkley, Corseul, France

I could see why they weren't cutting interest rates earlier due to inflation worries. However Brown has committed a shocking error by not cutting fuel duty. Firms have gone bust and jobs lost, that could have been saved. Now they will cut interest rates more and wipe out savers income.

Fred, Moray, Scotland

Lucky Mr Brown has made our public sector so bloated. Imagine how high the unemployment figures would have been without the massive increase in public sector employment since labour came to power. This is all mortgaged up to the hilt as well. Who's going to pay for all those Final Salary pensions?

Scott, Aberdeen,

i could think of another 630 or so i would like to see added to that number plus all there minions in local govt as well

m gaskell, cardiff, wales

I strongly reccomend doing ANYTHING you can to keep hold of your job. I have a computer science degree and after months of job hunting, 4 weeks of waiting for job seekers allowance, (they're UTTERLY useless) I'm packing boxes into lorries from monday. Expect no help and no new job of any skill level

Louis, Birmingham, England

Bury that one in spin Gordon - the sooner we are rid of this amateur politician the better. He is only interested in votes for Labour not the country. Dont be fooled by the spin this government is incompetent.

rob, derby, uk

Spin your way out of this zanulabour.

Youre toast.

ronnie, bucks, UK

Capt Brown was in charge of the UK Titanic & steered it into the iceberg.
He borrowed, borrowed some more & when told of all debt piling up, he borrowed even more! He's morgaged this country's future to feed the public sector monster & the housing market - setting 'the example' to the bankers!

Phil, Preston,

"3 million unemployed by 2010"-does that include the 3.5 million currently "on the sick"?

steve, West Midlands, Great Britain

another legacy of Mr Brown. How much will this one take to sort out ?

Mike, Sole Street, England

This governments record: hit unemployment targets by creating huge numbers of additional public sector positions. Over-tax and over-spend. Nothing left in the pot to support struggling industry or the rising unemployed. Public sector jobs now need to go. Economy down tube. Sterling job Brown!

Richard Lees, Ashton-u-Lyne, England

Why do I keep picturing that 1970's poster, (labour's not working) in my mind? History repeating itself or rather labour is.

lowen, M'cr, UK

Gordon Brown - the Man of the Mantra. What possible question could you put to him that he would not commence his answer with "We are doing everything possible to ........"? And when it comes to his idea of who needs protection it is always pensioners, first time buyers and children.

Chris, London,

What a load of crooks who caused this to happen. Now pensioners who have retired to safer countries like Spain could suffer a reduced pension if the pound goes down against the Euro, even if as expected the pension goes up as it should. And as for those who have been diligent and saved.

B J Deller, Marbella, Spain

Err, 'Hero Gordon' refused to comment? No magic formula this time?

Ian , Bristol,

Flash Gordon threatens to do all in his power to save jobs. Sound like he is going to spend all our money again to save his own skin.

albert hall, hove, england

Since Europeans seem to think Obama should be "President of The World" why not ask him what to do????
Maybe if he looses in the US, he could run for PM.
You love him so much You Take Him!!!

George, Florida, USA

Amazing how the government and business leaders failed to pick up on the warning signs in the financial system that were flashing red much earlier . Much harder and more costly to put out a fire once started. They failed to see that inflation cannot feed on itself in a collapse of credit/confidence.

Robert Cookson, Milton Keynes, UK

Prime Minister Gordon Brown refused to comments on today's figures, but said he would do everything possible to keep people in jobs. “We will do everything we can to help create jobs and help people maintain jobs in the British economy," he said.

Except reduce red tape

Kevin, Workington, Cumbria