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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
I wouldn't bother either if I were them, if past government's gave a toss about these areas they wouldn't have needed European handouts in the first place
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Exactly.
Cornwall got extra as its GDP was less than 75% of the EU average, so it received convergence funding, same funding chain as Eastern European nations, to try and bring it closer to the wider EU.
As a councillor of mine proved very few realise how many programmes the EU was actually funding.
All well and good saying it was our money, which is true, but our own governments clearly had other priorities.