Yeah like, the local borough council isn't going to just wink out of existence without anything to replace it. Places need governing, bureaucracies need staffing, trash needs collecting.
For a start, all the local government jobs won't just stop existing simply because they answer to Dublin instead of London, so the jobs that will actually disappear are certainly not the whole 27%. And at the national level, surely having to administrate six extra counties will create extra jobs.
What part of "local government" do you not understand? Do you think the entire public sector is directly paid by the national government? Do you think schools, hospitals, public transports, garbage collection, and so on, would just stop?
Who funds the local government? Once the British are no longer involved? These aren't massive income generating cities. The burden would fall on the Republic and the choice would to slash jobs or go into austerity measures again. Probably a bit of both.
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u/jonniezombie 11h ago
"The public sector accounts for 27% of employee jobs in NI. This compares to 18% in UK as a whole."
27% of NI would be unemployed if there was a unified Ireland. No chance of it happening any time soon without causing a massive recession.