Hey, here in Cornwall there's a lot of talk about getting independance for Cornwall.
Hell, we had our own king not more than five hundred years ago.
We don't belong in England and it's about time we were freed from you saxon skum!
Printable View
Hey, here in Cornwall there's a lot of talk about getting independance for Cornwall.
Hell, we had our own king not more than five hundred years ago.
We don't belong in England and it's about time we were freed from you saxon skum!
Now that we have your recipe for pasties, I can't see the problem.
Go away then :p
Prince Charles owns Cornwall anyway.
It's not fair:(
Scotland get thier own Parliment
Wales gets their an assmembly (whatever that is suposed to mean)
Northern Ireland get a shambles called an Assembly
Cornwall want a regional balls-up
Newcastle have their own language:)
When is it England's turn?
They can have independence if they take Prince Charles. Citizenship will be granted to native Cornish Speakers;)Quote:
Originally posted by Bonker Gudd
Prince Charles owns Cornwall anyway.
Good idea - Cornwall's thriving economy should keep you bouyant without westminster's coffers for at least a millenium :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally posted by Fried Egg
Hey, here in Cornwall there's a lot of talk about getting independance for Cornwall.
Hell, we had our own king not more than five hundred years ago.
We don't belong in England and it's about time we were freed from you saxon skum!
Gaffer -
So, now you've bled us dry, we've got no choice but to depend on England?Quote:
Good idea - Cornwall's thriving economy should keep you bouyant without westminster's coffers for at least a millenium
Parts of Cornwall used to be amoung the richest in Britain. We've done it once, we can do it again!
Right On!
Mark Sreeves -
Hey, start your own thread!Quote:
When is it England's turn?
RSINGH -
Well - You've got our recipe but you still can't get it right can you!Quote:
Now that we have your recipe for pasties, I can't see the problem.
Even worse - look what we did for that traditional Dutch delicacy - Hash Browns, its full of effin' potatoes;)Quote:
Originally posted by Fried Egg
Well - You've got our recipe but you still can't get it right can you!
[/B]
Cornwall is part of england you goonQuote:
Originally posted by Fried Egg
So, now you've bled us dry, we've got no choice but to depend on England?
Right, I am declaring independance of my house from England, simply because I'm a wacko with no idea about anything
I say to anyone who wants independence (this goes esp. to the scots and the welsh)...screw you then, if you think you can do a better job on your pitiful lonesome, go right ahead
This place is pitiful enough with all the countries united, just how crap are you going to be on your own???
I'm also declaring my independence, and setting myself up as a tax-haven.
Whilst Cornwall is, obviously, considered part of England, it does have historical reasons for considering itself as distinct from the rest of England.Quote:
Cornwall is part of england you goon
Right, I am declaring independance of my house from England, simply because I'm a wacko with no idea about anything
The have their own language for one thing. Not many other parts of England can boast that.
They consider themselves one of the celtic nations (along with Ireland, Scotland and Wales).
can i set up "techinacally" off-shore back accounts with you?
The trouble with the Cornish is that they all have bushy eyebrows and webbed hands/feet.
I've got my own language, it's called Bollox, therefore I declare me independantQuote:
Originally posted by simonm
Whilst Cornwall is, obviously, considered part of England, it does have historical reasons for considering itself as distinct from the rest of England.
The have their own language for one thing. Not many other parts of England can boast that.
They consider themselves one of the celtic nations (along with Ireland, Scotland and Wales).
When does it stop?? Shall we have individual counties becoming "nations" which are as poor and insignificant as Luxembourg???
History is something people pay a lot of attention to when it suits them, and something they ignore when it doesn't.
Hey, we've been neglected by Westminster for years. Last year we got objective one funding from europe 'cause we're on of the poorest places in the european union. What have the English ever done for us?
Just 'cause everyones jumping on the independance bandwagon like rats leaping off a sinking ship, no need to get so hairy man!
The empire's dead.
Get over it! :p
YOU ARE ENGLISH YOU NONCE!
So have I. West Sussex...never gets a visit from Mr Blair. Oh boo hoo I'm so upset We must declare independance because we never get a cabinet minister come an visit us. We are so far down the M23 they don't even know where it is!!!!
Wo is me! East Sussex...always gets the Labour conference, but never West Sussex. It's a tragedy I tell yous!!
No, You get over it. It's a patheticlly rediculous notion.
Own parliament?? Surely that's a joke??
What are they going to rule over?
A dead mining industry
Hideous unemployment
Piss poor/non existant public services
Local authority spends the money it is given by government. If your local autority is doing a bad job of spending it, you should boot them out, not cry over how villianous "Westminster" has been to you
Trust me - you do not want a party conference on your doorstep. It ****s up the whole place for weeks. I'd rather they all just buggered off and left us in peace.
If you want to set up an off-shore account in my Invisible State, it's quite simple to do - and we have great secrecy laws. Just give me all your money, and don't tell anyone.
Good grief. Why don't we all just split up and each house can be a country.
Seeing as you're asking what England's ever done for Cornwall (which is odd considering Cornwall's in England), I am asking you the reciprocal question: what has Cornwall ever done for England?
I'd love to see what the Cornish Ministry of Defense came up with :rolleyes:
You could set up your own country with hybrid Anglo-American spelling, Harry. ;)Quote:
Originally posted by HarryW
I'd love to see what the Cornish Ministry of Defense came up with :rolleyes:
And I thought it was only religous guys who were a bit nutty...
A good point well made, Duncan ;)
well they could throw all those peices of coal they've got lying around at passing fighter aircraft.
or make barricades out of surf boards
... or build the world's first all-tin aeroplane.
which would take off from that major airport they've...oh wait, scrub that
Hey you guys, just 'cause England's long since whitewashed our language and culture doesn't mean that our sense of spirit is crushed!
Does any of you remember the Cornish Rebellion? We marched all the way from Cornwall to London but, thanks to the cowardly Welsh who were supposed to rendezvous with us, we were massacared.
Hey, we don't mine coal down here, we mine (or did) tin.Quote:
well they could throw all those peices of coal they've got lying around at passing fighter aircraft.
Why don't you just give us back our freedom?
tin/coal
still nothing left
You seem to have trouble understanding that you are in England, and you are English
Why is it a them and us scenario you are obsessed with?
I blame Norman
Norman? Mr N. Conquest, is that?
:D
Actually why don't we also lay some of the blame on Julius and Augustus's doorstep while we're at it...
What? What freedom is there to give you? The freedom to make your own laws? Why don't we just give everyone the the freedom to make their own laws then? We can have 50 million different countries each with their own laws instead of just a few. Wow, wouldn't that be a great step forwards for freedom.Quote:
Originally posted by Fried Egg
Hey you guys, just 'cause England's long since whitewashed our language and culture doesn't mean that our sense of spirit is crushed!
Does any of you remember the Cornish Rebellion? We marched all the way from Cornwall to London but, thanks to the cowardly Welsh who were supposed to rendezvous with us, we were massacared.
Hey, we don't mine coal down here, we mine (or did) tin.
Why don't you just give us back our freedom?
Come off it, you're hardly an oppressed people.
Your culture? What exactly is so special about Cornish culture? How has Cornwall being part of England 'whitewashed' your culture? It's the same with the language - what exactly is it that makes you think things would be any different? Having more languages to deal with isn't of any benefit to anyone, and Cornwall would be just as full of McDonaldses and Burger Kings and KFCs and Virgin Megastores and Tescos and whatever else you consider to have destroyed 'your culture' as it is now. That is inescapeable unless you move Cornwall to the moon, which right now isn't sounding like a bad idea.
Bloody Romans. What have they ever done for us?
(Where's MontyPython4U when you need him?)
Moon pasties? They'll never catch on.Quote:
Originally posted by HarryW
That is inexcapeable unless you move Cornwall to the moon, which right now isn't sounding like a bad idea.
What about the aqueduct? :pQuote:
Originally posted by InvisibleDuncan
Bloody Romans. What have they ever done for us?
(Where's MontyPython4U when you need him?)
...as for that Democrates, it was 'im and his damn fangled philosophosophising that got us enslaved with all this new age thinking bollox - so don't let him get away with it either.
Oh and that Eve bird - if she'd never eaten that friggin' apple they wouldn't have had to leave that effin' garden and populate the rest of the fruggin world and Cornwall could have [enter whatever you wish!]
Right - where's that Claudia? ;)Quote:
Originally posted by RSINGH
[enter whatever you wish!]
We are not English. We have our own culture and language and have been absorbed into England after a deliberate attempt to supress our sense of identity.
Cornwall was the last place in England to finally surrender to the Saxons in the 9th century. Until then, we were a seperate and independant nation and had been even during the roman occupation of Britain.
Ethnically and culturally, we are distinct from the rest of England. Just because you didn't learn about us in your "anglo-centric" history lessons doesn't mean we never existed!