Soviet Boroughs

Soviet Boroughs
Areas of Britain where more than 40 percent of workers are employed in the public sector.

“The growth of public spending under Labour has created a generation of ‘Soviet boroughs,’” The Times of London announced in November 2008, after the Centre for Economics and Business Research revealed ten areas in the U.K. with public sector employment of at least 40 percent.

Noting that eight of these regions were represented by a Labour MP, The Daily Mail elaborated on the analogy
Top of the list … 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 percent of jobs are in the public sector.
As the economic downturn worsened, The Daily Mail commented on the disparity between those working in the private sector and those employed by the state:
While their friends, families and neighbours are losing their jobs, the State’s army of workers continues to increase, up 14,000 in three months.


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