A client state

The Mail seem shocked? to learn that:

"Labour's public sector spending has created a wave of 'Soviet' boroughs where around half the population depends on the state for work, figures revealed yesterday.

An analysis of council statistics showed that in ten areas more than 40 per cent of the workforce is employed in the public sector.

Many are deprived areas where the true dependency on the state will be far greater once benefit payments to those out of work are taken into account.

All but two have Labour MPs - the others are Liberal Democrat.

Top of the list compiled by the Centre for Economics and Business Research is Castle Morpeth, Northumberland, where - in an echo of the Soviet system where everyone was employed by the state and therefore owed their loyalty to the communist party - 57.1 per cent of jobs are in the public sector. "

I do not know why they are surprised, this has been Gordon Brown's plan all along; to create a client state of people employed by central or local government or on benefits and/or tax credits, people who owe their livelihoods to the Labour government and so who will always vote Labour. How else do you explain the Labour party even now receiving over 20% in opinion polls?