Cornwall may well have voted leave.
It may well be the case that many of us could see that Brexit would mean less money to go round.
People who voted for Brexit mostly aren't bad people.
Treat them as you would victims of fraudsters & con men. Brexit is a collapsing Ponzi scheme.
Our FPTP voting system gives us a binary view of the country. The reality is that no region was entirely leave it remain. All are shades of grey.
Cornwall was
Leave 56.5% 182,665 votes
Remain 43.5% 140,540 votes
Turnout: 77.0%
Well over 40% of people did not vote leave.
To many Remainers, it may seem obvious that the leave vote was based on foundations of lies, but would you feel the same if you had read different papers and we surrounded by others who all said they were voting leave?
If (like most people) you didn't normally engage in politics and you'd been subjected to the same vote leave targeted advertising (both online and printed) would it have seemed so obvious?
You have to remember how highly targeted the advertising was - in remain areas you'd probably never have seen most of it.
Put it a different way - we might be angry at the direction this country is taking and angry at people telling us to get over it and that we are undemocratic. But we have to show that we are better than this vocal minority of leave voters in social media.
We are only ever get in a position where rejoining seems likely if we can swing people's hearts and minds. Insulting them will never achieve this. Hard though it may be, we have to try and empathise and then develop nuanced responses from that.
Here's a reminder of what Vote Leave said on June 14th 2016.
"13 Government ministers & senior Conservatives have today committed that every region, group & recipient of EU funding will continue to get that money after a ‘Leave’ vote in the EU referendum." http://www.voteleavetakecontrol.org/leave_ministers_commit_to_maintain_eu_funding.html
"In an open letter, the signatories - who include Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Priti Patel -  assure those people and organisations who currently receive money from the European Union that their funding is safe if we Vote Leave."
Now personally I didn't take anything from that crowd at face value - but if you only briefly looked at the issue in between other stuff, you could be forgiven for thinking that this was a serious pledge.
Those who made it are all now in senior government positions too...
Full list of signatories:
Julian Brazier
James Duddridge
George Eustice
Michael Gove
Chris Grayling
Boris Johnson
Penny Mordaunt
Priti Patel
Dominic Raab
Iain Duncan Smith
Desmond Swayne
Theresa Villiers
John Whittingdale

Julian Brazier is the only one of these no longer an MP.
It's not just about Cornwall either. That is but one of many examples.
Despite there impression of big hoardings in fields, many farmers didn't vote leave. Neither did all over 60s. There are plenty of other such categorisations.
If you are taking groups and saying they voted leave, so deserve whatever they get, then why so at Cornwall. You can say England or for that matter the UK and come up with the same argument - but many of the most prominent remain campaigners came from regions that voted leave.
For me, it just doesn't make sense as an argument and denies the rights of all those in whatever cohort you are holding up that voted the other way. In every group they are still a sizeable percentage.
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