Some things I’ve found, which I want to refer back to…
https://twitter.com/nicoleperlroth/status/746272418075807745
Lord Ashcroft’s survey on reasons for voting Leave or Remain
Bim Adewunmi’s heartbreak over the result
https://twitter.com/jimwaterson/status/746416907159363586
https://twitter.com/jamesrbuk/status/746318754246762496
By the same token, it seems unlikely that those in these regions (or Cornwall or other economically peripheral spaces) would feel ‘grateful’ to the EU for subsidies. Knowing that your business, farm, family or region is dependent on the beneficence of wealthy liberals is unlikely to be a recipe for satisfaction (see James Meek’s recent essay in the London Review of Books on Europhobic farmers who receive vast subsidies from the EU). More bizarrely, it has since emerged that regions with the closest economic ties to the EU in general (and not just of the subsidised variety) were most likely to vote Leave.
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