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> Britain benefited hugely from infrastructure support programs, for example. how, exactly? compared to UK government expenditure: the funding from EU program

• toyg 5y ago
  Half of Wales and Scotland was rebuilt with European money that Westminster would not have dispensed otherwise, preferring people in decaying cities to "get on yer bike". If that's a "rounding error", think what the UK government could have achieved before and since, and never bothered to.
  • blibble 5y ago
    your statement makes the bus figure look honest by comparison the block grant to Scotland in 2019/20 was £32 billion, whereas EU RDF was €1.8 billion for 2014-2020 or put another way: the UK block grant provides Scotland more than 128x more the EU funding over the same period put another way: EU funding is 0.78% of that provided by the UK, which I think is fair to describe as a rounding error additional points: 1. the RDF only exists because of Westminster: the UK government made it a condition when it joined the EEC in 1972 2. EU funds spent in the UK are funds from Westminster as the UK is (well, was, thankfully) a net contributor (as a general observation: innumeracy amongst ultra-remainers seems to be very common)