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Governments can't "punish" Parliamentary Constituencies so presumably he means most of England outside of London along with the whole of the country of Wales.
by Wildgoose 10y ago
Governments can't "punish" Parliamentary Constituencies so presumably he means most of England outside of London along with the whole of the country of Wales.
Which just goes to show how ludicrous the assertion is - all the Parliamentary talk right now is about desperately trying to connect/reconnect to the voters in these areas (who remember are the MAJORITY of the voters in those areas).
The only people who will be punished will be those who try to punish others. The former Chancellor of the Excheqeur (Finance Minister) talked about a "punishment" budget if the people voted to leave the EU. Please note I said "former" - he was sacked.
- mcintyre1994 10y agoThey don't need to explicitly punish areas like Wales, just treat them like they have been treating them - business as usual without EU Regional Development funding will be devastating. Nobody's talking any more about having vast sums of money available to reallocate, so unless we're cutting somewhere else I don't see how that vast EU pool is being replaced.
- _delirium 10y agoSame is likely to happen in Cornwall. The local MPs are pushing for the UK government to replace the EU structural adjustment funds with equivalent amounts of UK funding, but it's now looking very unlikely that this will happen.