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May has announced £1.6 billion pounds to be spent in poorer towns in the North and Midlands regions to help boost their economies.
I wondered if someone would bring this up. As it turns out it is a paltry amount compared to what the regions have been receiving from the EU
This story from 2016 in the Mirror notes that :
Throughout the whole of England regions have received a total of £2.2 billion in ESF funding and £2.2 billion in ERDF funding - a total of £4.4 billion between 2007 and 2013.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/revealed-how-much-eu-funding-7789224
A whole £2.8 billion more over 7 years (in the days when the pound actually bought more) than May's present promise of munificence for the English regions.
It's been calculated that, should we remain in the EU, the regions would receive 13 billion euros (about £11 billion) over the next 7 year funding period (2021 - 2027)
twitter.com/CllrNickSmall/status/1102476445966917633
Of course, we've no idea what she plans to devolve to Scotland, Wales and NI, but the fact that NI, in the 'person' of the DUP, has already had a £1 billion bribe from her just to keep her in power it rather puts her 'generosity' into perspective. £1 billion for the DUP, £1,6 billion for deprived regions 
Please don't give me the 'The EU was giving us our money anyway' argument. I might have bought it had May announced a sum similar to, or even greater than, the amount the regions were projected to get from the EU, but it is noticeably very much smaller. So nothing at all to get excited about. It's just an example of how tories can't be trusted to do anything really meaningful for the deprived regions of the UK.
Anyone with half a brain and a healthy dose of scepticism could have predicted that the tories would be nowhere near as 'generous' as the EU when it came to regional funding. It's like that £350 million for the NHs. Meaningless babble...
Well, as someone who voted leave, I have difficulty in believing how much all this Brexit uncertainty has benefited our Business. Companies are setting up extra storage facilities in anticipation of the UK leaving with "no customs agreement" and therefore will bring the end of Just In Time (JIT) Delivery services.
As I stated earlier in this thread, my Company has benefited enormously from picking up a large amount of work in setting up the safety regimes in those new storage centres. It that, it has this week got to the stage that we are turning down work as we do not have the facilities or qualified staff to take on more.
All the Assignment team members and Admin Staff will benefit from great quarterly bonuses that will be due to them the end of this month, and they are over the moon, and living in hope that all this uncertainty continues.
Of course all the above has to be paid for, and doubtless, those consumers that purchase from the very many companies that are setting up all this extra storage will be picking up the bills, which includes food distribution organisations.
However, we are working "flat out" including weekends and making all that lovely extra money, so why should we concern ourselves with the financial stress that may bring to many, especially pensioners on fixed incomes
After all, as Andrew Myrick stated "let them eat grass" if they have nothing else, for we are making money and that's what matters and nothing else.
GREAT STUFF.....WONDERFUL.... I CAN SCARCELY BELIEVE ITS HAPPENING. 
Apologies should be as "someone who voted remain" in my above post. 
So you voted remain Grandad49 but are over the moon the way Brexit and leaving the EU has panned out.
You and your co workers are laughing all the way to the bank ££££.
Quite the capitalist
--under the red flag--Grandad49 
? or is it Champagne??
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