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Originally Posted by Chris
No, it was not better because it was beyond our democratic control. That’s a fundamental principle for me and for a great many long-time Eurosceptics.
You claim to have understood the point yet you’re still attributing the question of whether or not development funds are properly allocated this financial year to the wider and altogether more permanent issue of EU membership. You are plainly wrong about this. Regional development is now the remit of the UK government and if it does not adequately deliver the sanction lies in the hands of UK voters. That is a fundamentally better state of affairs, regardless of how well (or not) cash is allocated over the next 8 months.
The logic behind your position is that our own government and our own democratic processes are not to be trusted and we need a remote organisation to do these things for us in order for them to be done properly. That’s a position I find rather worrying.
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You remember Bately and Spen? I think it was there I saw a couple interviewed saying they'd voted Labour all their lives but were switching to Conservatives, when asked why they said it was because the labour council had closed this, shut that and cut the other, turns out of course that they didn't have any choice because the central government grant had been slashed. It's not always as simple as you've made out.