Thread by @uk_domain_names

Roll up, roll up! I've got the mother of all Brexit deals for you... I'll give you *£1,600* in the next 7 years. Listen, it's easy-peasy. All you have to do to get it is give up on the £13,700 you would have got instead. £1,600 for £13,700. Sound good? Sign on the dotted line...

Add 6 zeros, and that's exactly what the Tories are proposing. They're offering £1.6 billion to poor regions (to buy Labour support for Theresa May's deal). The thing is, they were due to get £13.7 billion from the EU's European Regional Development Fund!
theguardian.com/politics/2019/…

That's £12.1 billion less. A giant sum. That's what people don't understand about the EU: yes, it may take control of how we spend some of our money out of our hands, but it genuinely hand-on-heart spends it in much fairer, more equitable ways than our own Government ever would.

See, it's baked into the rules of the European Regional Development Fund that it must be spent mainly on the regions that need it the most i.e. the poorer ones. Exactly the same places that tend to get left behind, especially under the London-is-the-centre-of-the-Universe Tories.

Here's more info on the next round of EU funding, 2021-2027...
theparliamentmagazine.eu/articles/news/…

And here's our Government explaining how it's all irrelevant to the UK because, ha ha, we won't be in the EU anyway. Sucks to be us.
europeanmemoranda.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/files/2018/06/…