North East will top the list of Tory cuts

It's not just the Labour Party saying the Tories will specifically target the North East for cuts - now even the Tories are saying it! In an interview last Friday with Jeremy Paxman, David Cameron confirmed that in his view, the public sector in the North East is too big. Realising his gaffe, Tory spin-meisters were quickly at work to suggest that this meant growing the private sector here, not shrinking the public sector. The problem with that interpretation of his remarks is, however, that while the Government controls the public sector, no-one controls the private sector, hence the only way the Tories can seek to 're-balance' the North East's economy is by targeting the public sector for job cuts.