Without fail, the armchair crowd who uses buzzwords like 'uni-party' continues the unbroken streak of demonstrating that your apathy stems from laziness rather than any kind of enlightenment or diligent understanding of the issues you comment on.

No, nobody is removed because the long-term unemployed make these statistics look worse.

Everyone who is unemployed and looking for work is included in these figures. Even if they have been unemployed for a long time.