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They 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 fun
by mcintyre1994 10y ago
They 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.