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"In truth only a metropolitan elite which benefits in every way from investment and development"


That's pish though. The EU has consistently invested huge amounts into cornwall (leave) and south wales (leave) do you seriously think the tories are going to plug that gap ?

Have a look for yourself and see if its fair to say that only the elite have benefited from EU investment.

https://www.myeu.uk/.

The thing is Dev is right. Everything seems to be centered around London and the inside bubble of the M25. It's what London wants because it's like London only matters and sod the rest of the UK. The EU funding has not gone towards places in the North of England, where there is no industry anymore. The Northern towns and cities in the UK had industry like coal mining, steel works, car manufacturing but everything has either been sold off or its moved to Europe because it's cheaper. Even if areas do get EU funding it's spent on white elephants with a big blue plague up to say the EU funded it. People think if we remain in the EU, it will be a bed of roses and the land of milk and honey and that we won't have austerity anymore and everything will just be perfect with rainbows and unicorns but it just isn't true. We've had austerity while being inside the EU and we will do afterwards because of this Tory Government.

In this country people said the North/South divide doesn't exist but it does exist and it will always exist. London will always come before the rest of the UK and it's not right, it's time the wealth was distributed evenly in the North of England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland etc.

If I was in charge, my plan after Brexit would be fund the NHS properly, build social housing, fund public services and infrastructure, scrap HS2, create public energy and water companies where the people can buy shares, for the people by the people. Would build industry again, car manufacturing, Technology etc and export them to the rest of the World.