Sinn Fein? They have gone away, you know.

[tonto1888]

I think I read something a while back that part of the reason the public sector worker per capita ratio is so high here compared to England is that we provide some of the public services for England/Wales. No idea what the percentage is and I'm not trying to justify the number of public sector workers we have, but it might not be fair to do a direct like for like comparison if this is the case.

I think its also bound to be a factor in England that private sector jobs there generally pay more than here, which makes the public sector in England a less attractive job than it is here.

HMRC and the home office have a lot of employees here who wouldn't come under the NICS.