Brexit: Cornwall to face 'significant' funding cut

 

Cornwall could be "significantly worse off" after Brexit, receiving just 5% of what it needs to replace EU funding, according to a local councillor.

 

As one of the poorest areas of the UK, Cornwall applied for £700m over 10 years from the government to replace EU payments.

 

However, there are fears that the county could get as little as £1.8m in the first year.

 

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They get what they vote for I guess! :mellow:

It will take a few years for people to wake up and smell the coffee. The Tories will break so many election promises, these next 4 years are going to be torterous.

Even PL and HU feel in line when their money was threatened. The poorest areas of the UK outwith Scotland? Nah fam they didn’t shoot their foot so much as shoot their own face off

There's just no good way out for Cornwall. Its people have basically no good opportunities given how it's been used as a place for the rich from the South-East to holiday at their summer home in and how otherwise far it is from everything. Voting to leave when the county is full of 'financed by the EU' projects is very bad, but based on its voting character, I wouldn't have expected anything else, and it SHOULD sink in that the Conservative government doesn't care about them, but there's not really been much of a push for good opposition politics there either.

 

Hopefully a push towards working from home might equalise investment a bit but I don't have much hope.

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As I said last week - all the 'No Deal' rhetoric is there to placate the loons and is being amplified by poor journalism. Deal coming next week.

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As I said last week - all the 'No Deal' rhetoric is there to placate the loons and is being amplified by poor journalism. Deal coming next week.

There remains a strong suspicion that a deal has already been done and that this is all stage-managed to allow Johnson to claim a triumph.

There remains a strong suspicion that a deal has already been done and that this is all stage-managed to allow Johnson to claim a triumph.

 

Agreed. Tory comms essentially seem to be brief catastrophe so disaster looks triumphant.

Agreed. Tory comms essentially seem to be brief catastrophe so disaster looks triumphant.

 

...and Peston and Kuenssberg et. al are all falling for it.

 

Or in the case of Kuenssberg deliberately and knowingly doing so.

Agreed. Tory comms essentially seem to be brief catastrophe so disaster looks triumphant.

 

I don't think a Deal has been done yet. The positive news is that they cannot be too far away from a deal if they are willing to keep talking, so either party must be willing to concede on a few issues. Surely the EU wouldn't let us waste all this time if a Deal was done. Let's just hope there is a Deal there to be done as otherwise we are just self-destructing our economy.

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Agree with Owen here, I think it suits the EU to have this heightened sense of drama too - it is an easier sell to the public when large compromises have been made on both sides.

 

Looking forward to the moment Boris has to fall on his sword though. :D

There's just no good way out for Cornwall. Its people have basically no good opportunities given how it's been used as a place for the rich from the South-East to holiday at their summer home in and how otherwise far it is from everything. Voting to leave when the county is full of 'financed by the EU' projects is very bad, but based on its voting character, I wouldn't have expected anything else, and it SHOULD sink in that the Conservative government doesn't care about them, but there's not really been much of a push for good opposition politics there either.

 

Hopefully a push towards working from home might equalise investment a bit but I don't have much hope.

 

So they’ll shift all their votes to the liberal next time then...

...and Peston and Kuenssberg et. al are all falling for it.

 

Or in the case of Kuenssberg deliberately and knowingly doing so.

 

Was going to say the second sentence until I see you corrected yourself lol

So they’ll shift all their votes to the liberal next time then...

 

The liberal streak in Cornwall has been declining, almost none of it left, in some parts of the county there was a huge increase for Labour over the last 2 elections that has almost never been extant down there. Might be some competition there. Outside of that I reckon blue safe seats for the foreseeable (as much as I would wish otherwise). I just don't see where the Brexit voters will go other than Tory even if they are betrayed by Brexit.

The liberal streak in Cornwall has been declining, almost none of it left, in some parts of the county there was a huge increase for Labour over the last 2 elections that has almost never been extant down there. Might be some competition there. Outside of that I reckon blue safe seats for the foreseeable (as much as I would wish otherwise). I just don't see where the Brexit voters will go other than Tory even if they are betrayed by Brexit.

Mebyon Kernow? :P

Talks are still continuing. Whether they will after tonight's another matter but think they may do. As Labour has said, that itself has to be good news.

 

I see this going right down to Dec. 31st with one side then blinking first.

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Think you’ll find yourself saying that 3rd sentence quite a lot between now and 2024!

Think you’ll find yourself saying that 3rd sentence quite a lot between now and 2024!

 

 

LOL. I guess so. :P

Seems there's been "some movement" on fishing but the main stumbling block is the state-aid for business. Surely we should be able to do as we like for our own firms if we're no longer in the EU. Don't give in on that Boris.

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Seems there's been "some movement" on fishing but the main stumbling block is the state-aid for business. Surely we should be able to do as we like for our own firms if we're no longer in the EU. Don't give in on that Boris.

You do realise that most state aid is prohibited under WTO rules, don’t you? After all, you’re keen for us to adopt them, so I assume you know what they are.

You do realise that most state aid is prohibited under WTO rules, don’t you? After all, you’re keen for us to adopt them, so I assume you know what they are.

Now now, letting fact get in the way of ideology there :lol: