Shephallmassive<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://stroud.social/users/gruff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>gruff</span></a></span> “the Norf” as referred to by south has shed loads of money in the region - ie around Darlington a stones throw from both <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BarnardsCastle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BarnardsCastle</span></a> favoured by Myopic MPs and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Teeside" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Teeside</span></a> Asset strippers &amp; de-regulators delight -but the money is not circulating or working for the UK - tied up in havens,off-shoring, rentiers &amp; “gentleman” farming. Possibly a similar story in <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Wales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wales</span></a> -sharks are circling buying up assets impoverishing communities. It was not the EU to blame for doing this.</p>