Yes, super, that is the pitch of the argument. Like the poll tax, there was a justifying sympathetic rationale put that only examined it from one narrow angle.
It really doesn't wash. It's self serving divide and rule claptrap of the highest order. How can the private sector be 'crowded out' in areas of low average salaries? It's nonsense. The reason why wages are low and not high is because there isn't very much private sector employment, there isn't much money in the local economy because there isn't much private sector employment. So the Tory class war 'solution' is to take money out of those local economies, so the private sector will have even less of a local market.
The Tory ideal seems to be that everyone should live in London, Kent, Essex and Herts in some vast commuter belt where they will spend a minimum of ÂĢ200,000 for a one room flat.
The reason why wages are high and not low in London and the south east, is because there's more private sector employment and more private sector income.
It's the standard Tory spin to persist in claiming jobs are going begging when all the stats show the opposite. It makes their supporters feel justified about their selfishness if they can dismiss the unemployed and low waged as just scroungers.
This is about screwing down salaries to make it easier to hive off the NHS to the private sector and allow the private sector to make inroads into former NHS territory. The Tories WANT the NHS to fail and to be seen as failing and if people leave, strike or go to work the private sector, that suits their aims down to the ground.