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Yes I accept that there are unnecessary journeys involved in many areas of life.

I'd have thought it was flippin' obvious really to anyone with a bit of common sense🙄

If my granddaughter ,had not mentioned the hundreds of ,extra miles the "buy local " Essex chickens,(next door county )had done to be processed (via Scotland) then who , apart from Tesco marketing Dept  would know ?it was not advertised as such

I guess as planning permission had to be given for the egg production units our esteemed planners would have sought EU monies ( and it was sloshing around) for a packing unit,  But there "heritage centers" were a much more sexy option. The fact most have closed through lack of use never crossed their little minds. Sorry rant at Our rulers.

When Italy First joined the EU (via a very dodgy finance agreement)we went to Rome ,for OHs sons wedding ,he married a daughter of the Hospitality director of Alitalia Airline (special flights from at back to Stanstead)

Nearly every ancient building bad a huge banner on proclaiming it was being restored/preserved with money from the EU

Out of interest, regarding eggs etc try looking up

www.foodmiles.com

I can’t speak for Wales, and their Government, but I do know Yorkshire and further North has benefitted hugely from EU investment, particularly in terms of road infrastructure. A great deal of the money to upgrade the A1, certainly North of Doncaster came via EU funding.

It doesn’t bother me where eggs are packaged, I am more concerned about the animal welfare. If eggs from free range, organic farms have to travel to Norfolk to get shoved in a box, rather that than buy eggs produced from vile farms where the poor creatures never see the light of day. Same with pork, I feel physically sick every time I drive past an intensive pig farm. I eat eggs because I can say hello to each hen that provides my breakfast, knowing it has as good a life as a hen can have. 

“I do know Yorkshire and further North has benefitted hugely from EU investment”

Ditto Cornwall, Eden Project, Newquay Airport, fast broadband and A30 improvements to mention just a few of the projects.

Also, heritage & culture does matter. Those of us who enjoy Baltic Wharf can imagine what it might be like had the City Council got its way in1969 and filled in the floating harbour replacing it with the M42 roundabout! 

If any money comes from the EU  for major projects, ,it is evidently a legal requirement? that a banner advising of the fact has to be prominently displayed

Not sure about prominent, but on all the road infrastructure and manufacturing regeneration projects I have seen, the blue logo and circle of stars was on the information.
As SB says, Cornwall is/was another area of UK that benefitted from EU investment. We can recall Cornwall back in the early 1980’s, not that long after UK became part of EU, and it was one of the poorest areas in Europe. Very beautiful, but vastly overlooked by UK Government in terms of investment.