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“We don’t need yet another corrupt-tri-party-cabal MP for the Newquay/St Austell constituency – we need an honest and straight Cornish MP with insight, talent, experience, sincerity and determination. Mr Cole has proved his mettle, commitment, stamina, integrity and determination over many years. His heart is in Cornwall and devoted to doing the best for Cornwall and her people.

Mr Cole is the best candidate with the best credentials to best represent his people at Westminster.

Vote For Cornwall.

Vote Cole.”

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1. There will be a guarantee of equality before the law.

3. Local will actually mean local.

5. The secret policy of relocation will be abandoned.

7. All planning and housing decisions wil be decentralised.

9. The Duchy of Cornwall and cultural sites will be under Cornish Corntrol.

11. Sewage and waste recycling facilities will be established.

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Born in 1950,Craig Weatherhill is a longstanding author both of fiction and non-fiction works about Cornwall.

Raised in St Just in Penwith and then in Falmouth, after serving in the forces he developed a career in conservation and architecture.

In his younger days, Weatherhill was an outstanding goalkeeper, playing for clubs such as Falmouth Town and even Plymouth Argyle. He also played in goal for Cornwall at youth level. He played on for several years – his last match (for Pendeen Rovers) being at the age of 48 – despite extensive surgery to rebuild his lower spine following serious injury whilst serving with the Royal Air Force in 1972, from which he made an astonishing and determined recovery. He has been a keen horseman for most of his life, this passion continuing to this day.

He conducted extensive archaeological surveys of West Cornwall in particular under the tutelage of P.A.S. Pool, one of the outstanding modern Cornish historians. His reconstruction of West Cornwall courtyard houses in particular (drawings and artwork) is now the accepted form for these buildings. Weatherhill published the two standard works on Cornish prehistoric and early medieval archaeology: Belerion and Cornovia. A completely rewritten, full-colour and updated “Cornovia”, was published by Halsgrove of Wellington, Somerset, in April 2009.

His works of fiction include The Lyonesse Stone and Seat of Storms, with the third in the trilogy, “The Tinners’ Way”,  published last week.

In November 2009, ‘The Lyonesse Stone’ was published in Cornish by Evertype, with the title Jowal Lethesow – one of the longest novels to be translated into that language.

In December 2009 his novel Nautilus was published, 15 years in the making and a modern sequel to the Jules Verne classics Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas and The Mysterious Island, remaining faithful to the original works of Verne, despite its 21st-century setting.

You can browse Craig’s books using the sidebar widget on this page.

1. Royal World Status from Cornish Mining wealth

Adam Smith, in his world renowned standard text-book for economists, ‘The Wealth of Nations’ 1776, Chapter 11, Pt.2, explains:   “The tax of the King of Spain is said to be very ill paid, and that of the Duke of Cornwall very well.   Rent, therefore, makes a greater part of the price of tin at the tin mines of Cornwall the most fertile known in the world than it does of silver at the most fertile silver mines in the world”.   The Stannary mining system has been recognised as the foundation of Cornwall’s status as a UNESCO World Mining Heritage Site, however, the Duke of Cornwall refuses to acknowledge the constitutional history of the Duchy in its monopolisation of Cornish mining wealth.  This Duchy, capable of competing with Spain’s South American colonies in terms of the accumulation of wealth, is now claimed by the government to be a private estate.

There is an historical precedent for the administration of the Duchy of Cornwall as a separate country to provide an apprenticeship for Kingship in the case of Charles the First.  A former high ranking official of the Duchy has observed in respect of Charles the First as Duke of Cornwall:-   “The Prince may have become the victim of his own success, believing that he could govern the realm as he had the Duchy”. (The Estates of the English Crown 1558 – 1640, (Ed. R.W.Hoyle), Graham Haslam, Cambridge University 1992, p.296).   This  is an example of the “pretended power” abolished by the Bill of Rights 1688.   Such Duchy claims as “territorial possessions” and “the government of Cornwall” were made by the Duke in the Cornwall Foreshore dispute between the Duchy and the Crown 1854-58. Read the rest of this entry »

Cornish nationalism has its roots in the same argument as Welsh nationalism: namely that the Kingdom of Kernow existed well before England and always apart from it.

Says the Telegraph >>

“At 08.30 on Tuesday 26th January, 2010, Mike Chappell is going to be interviewed live on BBC Radio Cornwall by James Churchfield.

The interview will concern the ongoing abuse and insults shown to the Cornish by the media and individuals and follows formal communication between various people and the Equality and Human Rights Commission. (the Cornish have been accused as being lazy, lacking in intelligence, inbred, yokels, straw suckers and much worse in the papers and by others  and so on countless occasions) Mike has copies of these comments taken from newspapers and elsewhere as recently as last week and so the evidence is there!

Later during the Lawrence Reed show, 12 noon to 3 PM, Mike Chappell’s interview will be replayed as a recorded piece and then apparently an invited speaker, an academic from Durham University is going to speak. His take is that the Cornish as a people do not even exist and so cannot be insulted! It is possible that Professor Philip Payton from the Cornish Institute may have air time to be interviewed to refute this – we can but hope.

We all know that the Cornish are here and that they are entitled to be regarded as a National Minority along with their Celtic Brothers and Sisters and numerous other groups.

Please, please can you listen into BBC Radio Cornwall and if possible telephone to add your support to the Cornish cause?

BBC Radio Cornwall is broadcast on 103.9 FM, 95.2 FM and 96 FM as well as on the internet.

The telephone number is 01872 22 22 22 to call a show and you can Email at:  radio.cornwall@bbc.co.uk

Please could this message be circulated in the hope that the BBC can be shown the strength of feeling over this issue!

Meuras / Thankyou!”

(Received by email today 7.20 pm – sent by Tony)

For more information please contact cornishquest@hotmail.com

Equal rights for the Cornish

In its second report of December 2006 to the Council of Europe on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, (from which the Cornish national minority have been excluded since 1998) the government of the United Kingdom of  Great Britain asserts, at para.14:-

 “The term “national minority” has no legal meaning in the UK and so there is no mechanism under any of the UK’s legal jurisdictions to grant ‘national minority status’ to any particular group nor is it proposed to introduce any such mechanism”.  Read the rest of this entry »