Social media users hit out at county voters for 'not reading the fine print'

Cornwall has begun pleading for reassurances that it won't lose the £60million a year it gets from the EU - just hours after the county's residents voted overwhelmingly for Brexit.

Some 182,665 Cornish residents sided with the out camp, while just 140,540 voted to remain.

But the reality of the situation may have started to hit home already in a county reliant on the £60million its gets every year for the European Union.

Some 182,665 Cornish residents sided with the out camp, while just 140,540 voted to remain - apparently on the understanding the £60million a year the EU currently spends in the county will now be paid by Westminster

In the last 15 years, the EU has put a billion pounds into Cornwall - including helping fund the Eden Project. The council is now 'seeking reassurances' that this will continue

Over the past 15 years, almost a billion pounds has been spent - including on things like the Eden Project, and Newquay Airport, which the EU had touted as a possible site for a spaceport in the future.

Money from the EU has also helped launch local businesses and boosted educational facilities, including at Falmouth University and Truro College.

Brexiteers had promised they would keep up the payments, which would mean vital projects the EU was helping to fund like railway improvements and bringing in superfast broadband could be thrown into doubt.

Cornwall is now begging for reassurances that this will not be the case - a worry, especially after Nigel Farage admitted the apparent promise to spend £350million a week sent to the EU on the NHS instead was not going to happen.

Council leader John Pollard said: 'Now that we know the UK will be leaving the EU we will be taking urgent steps to ensure that the UK Government protects Cornwall's position in any negotiations.

'We will be insisting that Cornwall receives investment equal to that provided by the EU programme which has averaged £60 million per year over the last 10 years.'

But Pollard's pleading has not gone down well on social media, with many, like Twitter user Ben Bulmer asking why Cornwall should 'have your cake and eat it... with clotted cream'.

It has not gone down well with social media users, who took to Twitter to mock the county, with one person suggesting Cornwall is having its cake and eating it 'with clotted cream'

This tweet explains the reasons why Cornwall got the funding - and the apparent folly in now rejecting it

@Nutmeg3isme pointed out: 'Sorry (not sorry), Cornwall. Shd've read the fine print, ie. paid attention to the facts.'

Meanwhile, Kernow/Cornwall (@Porthynys) noted .Cornwall's position as one of the poorest areas int he EU is not going to recover anytime soon'.