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Originally Posted by Chris
Arguably, EU schemes, ultimately funded as they are by our own contributions, are a disincentive to Government action. It also neutralises regional depravation as an election issue.
These sorts of things should be front and centre of UK government policy. Perhaps, when the government of the day can no longer shrug its shoulders and outsource the problem to Brussels, the debate will change and we will start to take an appropriate interest in them.
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Or we'll just have huge swathes of the country left to rot like in the '80's, I believe the government of the day thought that exactly the appropriate amount of interest to take in them.