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  Barry, surely the key point being made is that the measures being offered by the government to encourage private sector jobs growth are insufficient to make any real difference to the jobless total.
  
  In my opinion the exclusion of London and the South East from the NI measures makes no sense, particularly as this is where many of the public sector jobs will be shed.
  
  The government does need to target what funds it has available for supporting apprenticeships and industrial education on the more blighted parts of the country to encourage additional job creation and longer term inwards investment through the creation of a skilled workforce, There is nothing wrong with government pump priming regional economies in this way, particularly as it ticks so many boxes in the short to medium term - gets people in to education, grows a skilled workforce, reduces benefit demand, generates inward investment, generates tax revenues etc. etc.

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