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Originally Posted by Stuart
Have the government committed to replacing those funds when they have been lost? Essentially cutting out the middle man (the EU) and funding those projects directly? I've seen nothing to suggest they've even promised to look at doing that.
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How can they make such a pledge? That’s a matter for party manifestos at the election following our departure from the EU when, for the first time in a generation, regional development will be an issue for British voters choosing a British government (actually a fair chunk of it is likely to be found to be within the competence of the devolved administrations so it will become an election issue in Wales, Scotland and NI as well).
Remainers are continually setting up pointless strawmen like this. The referendum was not an election and the debate was not a series of pledges or manifesto launches. It was about deciding where the power to make decisions over the U.K. should rest, and it was about the consequences of those decisions presently being taken elsewhere (such as limited control over immigration, the EU’s ability to demand additional billions from the U.K. while we’re powerless to object, its ability to set market regulations that may not suit us, to decide who we can trade with and on what terms ... the list goes on).