Mick F wrote:Tacascarow wrote:Cornwall has received a lot of EU money.
Dunno where you live, but if you read the stuff going on in Cornwall, no-one has seen any dosh that's made a difference. Cornwall is still a poor county with much unemployment and deprivation.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-33360841https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_CornwallA report in 2015 found European Union funding failed to create an expected 10,000 new jobs in Cornwall, creating only 3,557 jobs
There's more out there.
Can't be bothered to find more, but if you want to search, it's there.
You can't blame the EU if the money has been mismanaged by others.
I know a lot of EU money was available on a match funding basis & no one would do the match. Again not the fault of the EU. But a lot more could have been given if business or government had stepped up to the mark.
Cornwall would be a whole lot poorer without.
Parts of rural England, Scotland & Wales would be economic deserts without EU category 1 funding in my humble opinion.
We have a government who only care about the square mile of London where the bankers work.
But as I said before my primary concern of exit is environmental destruction & lack of funding in environmental projects.
All the major reserves & restoration projects around me have been funded by the EU.
Not making many jobs or generating much for the economy but certainly making a county I love a whole lot nicer to live in.