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sulley_long | 9 years ago | on: Eigg – A small Scottish isle that runs on 90-95% renewable energy

You're telling me that the benefit of the EU was that it was an effective way to bypass the people's democratic representatives when they won't do what you personally want?

> would not get 1.66M GBP from the UK government

They did get 1.66M from the UK government. It just went involuntarily via the middleman of the EU.

sulley_long | 9 years ago | on: Eigg – A small Scottish isle that runs on 90-95% renewable energy

Where do you think the money for the funding came from?

Net contributors to the EU, like the UK. We gave the EU more than they spent on us (of course, because there are poorer European countries).

You make it sound like you think EU funding money was a gift from other people. It was them doing us the favour of giving us some of our own money back.

If we choose to, we can spend exactly the same money in exactly the same way. Or we could democratically decide amongst ourselves to do something different with it.

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