NEW Labour's "White Eliphants" - public sector spawns "Commy" towns

"Everything is about monitoring performances and going on courses. We’ve had an awful lot of white elephants and nonjobs created in the northeast.” The research centre found that 1.3m jobs were created in health, education and public administration from 1998 to 2006, helping mask the loss of 1.1m manufacturing jobs.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle5258247.ece