Wales was considered part of England but eventually gained nationhood within the UK. And there’s an increasing trend towards devolution. So why not for Cornwall? | Dr Huw Evans
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The issue is London. The city state that sucks the life from the regions. It isn’t any use to us - and does nothing for us- so let’s devolve ! Go Cornwall.
My suggestion is that we split England back into the seven major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and give each of them the same kind of devolved powers as the other nations. The current arrangement is distorted by England's disproportionate size and power in the Union.
It's a bit small. Better as part of a SW English region and a genuine UK federation at first and if the case can be made for further autonomy in exchange for federal representation then further devolution is always possible.
One of my favorite maps and let's not forget Wales standing on the union flag is 0 ,another sign of the complete contempt that the English ruling class have for Wales
😄 DJ been outstanding last season and this - arguably player of the season so far - Piroe is a proper finisher but often disappears in games; not good enough for Prem if we get up.
This article reminded me of this sterling moment- and that 57% of “the Cornish Nation” supported Brexit- and were agitators for Brexit long before the referendum 🙄:
Thank you for this excellent article. This is a pressing issue: Kernow is under threat of being forced into a devolution deal, against our will, with Devon in England or with the wider southwest of Britain.
Devolution represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to right a centuries-old wrong – as has happened in Cymru. It is a unique chance to protect our culture and restore our precious and beautiful language. It is our chance for genuine local democracy. We won’t let this be snatched away from us.
Proper regional devolution in a UK federation would be better than a Cornish assembly. Certainly to start with anyway - further reform is always possible if the case can be made.
Cornwall will get it's "independence", we all will.
We'll have two passports like the Russians and be confined to our tiny "countries" needing permission to leave whilst the oligarchy ruling over us fly around the globe at leasure.
* The North of England.
* The South East of England.
* Isle of Wight (renamed Isle of the White and ceded for resettlement by intractable brexitists). The IoW idea is not really mine but stems from Julian Barnes’s ‘England, England’.
Let Kernow, Cymru, Alba and Éire forge their own destinies.
A clumsy wording by the headline editor,that does not specify how far "considered" was legitimate or accurate.
Evans himself is clearer: "the (now repealed) Wales & Berwick Act 1746 defined England as including Wales, & other, earlier laws made ‘England and Wales’ an unequal pair for many purposes"
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I'm a Master.
Might there be a TV series in that? 🤔
https://owain-glyndwr.wales/age_of_the_princes/mediaeval_wales_detail-m.html
I'm an odd half and half. Cymru/Yorkshire(a bit captured on Leighton's map).
How about a white rose tucked behind the ear?
We'll take Rodon back... you can keep James and (especially) Piroe.
I've learnt a lot reading this.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c066r811z7ro.amp
Cornwall will get it's "independence", we all will.
We'll have two passports like the Russians and be confined to our tiny "countries" needing permission to leave whilst the oligarchy ruling over us fly around the globe at leasure.
Careful what you wish for.
* The South East of England.
* Isle of Wight (renamed Isle of the White and ceded for resettlement by intractable brexitists). The IoW idea is not really mine but stems from Julian Barnes’s ‘England, England’.
Let Kernow, Cymru, Alba and Éire forge their own destinies.
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Nothing English about it.
Evans himself is clearer: "the (now repealed) Wales & Berwick Act 1746 defined England as including Wales, & other, earlier laws made ‘England and Wales’ an unequal pair for many purposes"