1.4 billion euro a year in things ranging from infrastructure to business development grants, unemployment mitigation schemes like the 175 million quid one that helped MG Rover employees find work when they collapsed, multimillion pound redevelopment of Swansea waterfront museum and uni campus, Liverpool alone got 1.3 billion quid over 9 years with another half billion on its way and Manchester has benefited nearly as much with many schemes producing financial benefit to the area well after the initial funding stopped. The NE, Scotland and Cornwall have been huge net receivers.
The irony is the Jippy's of the world who are actually paying something for all this benefit are getting little or nothing directly in return but are more than willing to pay it because of the huge indirect financial and social benefits of membership mainly voted to stay.
