CORNWALL AND BREXIT

Cornwall

Cornwall voted to leave the EU.

Membership of the EU hit Cornwall's fishing industry.

Cornwall is a somewhat neglected area - just like Mississippi in the USA, or Barlanark in Scotland.

Cornwall has no motorways.


Cornwall

In 2004, the GDP per head in Cornwall was 79.2% of the EU average.

In 2011, GDP per head in Cornwall was 64% of the European average.[98]

The GDP per head in the UK as a whole was 123.0% of the EU average.[97]


David Cameron in Cornwall.

If Cornwall was a country, it would be poorer than Lithuania and Hungary.



The EU has been giving Cornwall £60 million (60,000,000) per year, on average.

In the last 15 years, the EU has put £1 billion into Cornwall - including improving internet connections, and helping fund the Eden Project (a cluster of giant tropical domes) and Newquay Airport.

Compare that with the £14.5 billion (14,500,000,000) UK government expenditure on London's Crossrail project.

Nearly half England's infrastructure spending is spent in London.

dailymail / London is different / London gets 24 times as much spent on infrastructure per resident

tompride.wordpress.com.

What Cornwall did not get from the EU was:

Motorways

A thriving fishing industry

An end to poverty.