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@mespilus
^Very blinkered.
The de-industrialisation of the UK was achieved by successive Westminster governments, principally the 3 Thatcher administrations, with a hatred of Unionised labour, rather than any EU-wide policy. Indeed EU policy often helped to remediate the destruction by offering funds for improved transport (road) links to the now brownfield sites that UK governments had previously chisen not to invest in.