30 August 2006

Foot in mouth syndrome spreads...

I think that the First Minister might regret saying this. The Evening News reports:
"JACK McCONNELL today claimed moving thousands of public sector jobs out of Edinburgh was good for the city.
The First Minister said the policy of relocating civil service and quango posts away from the Capital was "pro-Edinburgh" because it gave more opportunity for the private sector to grow."

And I suppose that those areas to which the jobs are dispersed are being deprived of the opportunity to grow the private sector. That will be why council leaders in Glasgow, Inverness, Dundee and elsewhere are queueing up to condemn the policy of re-locating public sector jobs to their areas.

Something of a gift to opposition parties in the Edinburgh area?

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