Sunday 5 June 2016

What has the EU ever done for my … town?

Good question!

Projects across the UK, from getting people into work to building new tram stops and museums, have gone ahead with EU cash.

Areas of deprivation have benefited from funds from the EU. Areas which have been flooded have been helped by payments from the EU flood fund. Arts funding and business development grants, funds to help workers made redundant or those who live in areas of high unemployment, money to help build or rebuild infrastructures at the heart of our communities, and much more besides... all has come from the EU.

If the UK votes to leave the EU on June 23rd then we will lose access to these funds. Some folks claim that the UK government will fill the need from the savings made from the EU contribution, but many of us are unconvinced. The government has no track record of supporting many of these issues, nor of allowing such spending.

In the end it will be us and our communities which lose out by leaving the EU.

Vote REMAIN on June 23rd to make sure we don't end up as the poor relation on the edge of Europe.