Support Cornish Rights (please!)
Happy New Year everyone,
I hope some of you will take a few minutes to sign the petition at the end of this post. Cornwall's situation is similar to Scotland's, only worse!
While we were joined with England in an act of union Cornwall was simply annexed. Cornwall has no Euro seat of it's own, no university, no development agency, no TV stations, an even more biased press than ours (!) and no sporting recognition.
Cornwall is effectively treated as an English County and is not officially recognised by the UK in any way (apart from the Prince of Wales who leeches his personal finances from Cornwall), even though it has a historic right to it's own parliament and a rich history and culture and language.
Cornwall has none of the political rights that we Scots and Welsh take for granted. It's important that we try and help pressurise the UK to give Cornwall more rights and to recognise Cornwall's status as a fellow Celtic country.
Mebyon Kernow, the party of Cornwall the Cornish equivalent of the SNP and Plaid Cymru are fighting a long and difficult political fight. Despite 50,000 people, an enormous chunk of the Cornish population signing a petition for a Cornish Assembly recently Cornwall has been completely ignored by the British Government.
In this historically relevant year of 2007 when we might actually win our own vote for independence I hope you will all take a few minutes to support another nation's rights to self determination (and also at the same time turn up the pressure on BritGov from another source!).
More information about Cornwall is here:
Please sign the petition here:
All the best - JOE
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