The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that 1.1 million jobs have been created since the start of 2008.

But of those, 732,000 are accounted for by the self-employed, a category of worker that tends to earn roughly half the wages of those in staff jobs.

Construction remains the single biggest sector for self employment.

Source:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28866302

The mystery is that, if most are in construction (outdoors and not needing much office space)and many self-employed people work from home or at small business hubs (like the East Devon Business Centre that is being demolished to pay for Skypark relocation) why are we building smaller houses and more and more big industrial sheds in East Devon?

Tourism is our biggest industry and our biggest earner – where is the stimulus for it from our district council (apart from flogging the family silver in Exmouth).

EDDC “Tourism Champion” – hello, anyone out there?