All the professional jobs in the North are in the public sector or in businesses servicing the public sector. If you want a good job in the private sector you have to look in the South East
I don't know if this is entirely true - although a quick scan of jobs websites does show a real paucity of professional jobs outside London and the South East.
If this is true - and it could well be - then there's no doubt at all that the public sector continues to throttle the private sector, to push it aside. There has to be a way out from under this problem but I'm absolutely sure it isn't through resolutions of councils, through economic development strategies or through another round of regional initiatives.
Perhaps we should try a little less government?
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This article gives percentages, but for all jobs. Early on it states "Previously the rise in unemployment figures has been countered by rising employment in the public sector..." - countered? I think that's depressingly instructive!
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