Cornwall contributes precisely sweet fanny adams
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Cornwall contributes precisely sweet fanny adams
We could build massive water slides on it!
Or a big sign to taunt the French!
Or we could use the cheese mines to attract all the mice in Britain and then flood them.
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Unlike Essex, which gives us Essesx girls... therefore Essex contributes sweet fanny to the rest of Britain. :DQuote:
Originally posted by chrisjk
Cornwall contributes precisely sweet fanny adams
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ROTFL! :D :D :DQuote:
Originally posted by SurfDemon
Or a big sign to taunt the French!
That would be goodQuote:
Originally posted by SurfDemon
Unlike Essex, which gives us Essesx girls... therefore Essex contributes sweet fanny to the rest of Britain. :D
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If only it weren't a bit of a myth
Big Sign: good idea. Something like "You father was a snail and your mother smelt of garlic"
Where did you get that from ??Quote:
Originally posted by chrisjk
Shall we have individual counties becoming "nations" which are as poor and insignificant as Luxembourg???
GDP per capita is the average income of a citizen in that country...
HIGHEST GDP PER CAPITA3 (PPP in U.S. dollars): 1999
(1) Luxembourg $34,200
(2) United States 33,900
(3) Singapore 27,800
(4) Switzerland 27,100
(5) Monaco 27,000
(6) Norway 25,100
(7) Belgium 23,900
(8) Denmark 23,800
(9) Iceland 23,500
(10) Austria 23,400
Uk is nowhere in the top 10 list .. :rolleyes:
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0762380.html
What on God's earth does that prove???
Who cares about the GDP per person, it has no bearing on the purchasing power of the country. I already mentioned that the UK is the 4th largest economy in the world.
Luxembourg is insignificant because it contributes virtually bugger all to Europe, it could be $1,000,000 per person it would still make a piss poor GDP
While you can brag about uk being 4th largest economy, the folks at luxembourg can also brag about themselves. Don't tell me... Luxembourg is insignificant ...perhaps for uk but not for the rest of this world.
?? I don't know where you are, but that statement is way off
We are not, as many people believe, benefiting from English tax money. Infact, quite the opposite. More money comes out of Cornwall than in.Quote:
If they don't expel the "Saxons" (I'm guessing that even RSINGH counts as a Saxon for these purposes) then all they stand to change is not getting tax subsidies and sliding further into decline.
The major exception being Objective one but this is european money, not English.
Hey Crispin, don't give up so easilly! These arrogant English need to be told a thing or two. :D
which part of Cornwall are you in exactly?
Why?
because I'm going to raise an army of native born Cornishmen to burn you in the streets as an imposter :pQuote:
Originally posted by crispin
Why?
;)
No - I know some parts of Cornwall quite well (and have loads of Cornish contacts and friends) and have never heard anyone spouting all this nonsense before so I wondered whether it was just you and fried egg (if you are different people;) ) or whether there is some nest of dissidents ;) ;urking somewhere and dreaming that they are the new Arthur:).
[BTW if you said should Cornish-[British] culture be taught all over Britain (not england - Britain) I would say yes!!!]:D
Well, I live in Porth Leven.
And I can assure you that Crispin and I are most definitely not the same person!
And I don't think our opinion is in a particularly small minority. Most other Cornish people I know are in favour of us having our own assembly at the very least!
I live near Fowey.....but i'm down yer way this weekend Fried Egg, and Fried Egg is right Kzin, there are a great number of Cornish people who feel this way....
Keep Britain Tidy
Chop Off Cornwall
;)
I'm all in favour of self determination of populations if that's what they want and presumably the first stage in a campaign of that sort would be a independant gallup poll to show popular support followed by getting a majority in local seats in the House of Commons. If you can't manage that then you can't really claim 'popular support'.Quote:
Originally posted by Fried Egg
Well, I live in Porth Leven.
And I can assure you that Crispin and I are most definitely not the same person!
And I don't think our opinion is in a particularly small minority. Most other Cornish people I know are in favour of us having our own assembly at the very least!
Still it seems pretty silly if you are the original Britons to be trying to separate from Britain (and presumably the other Cymric Celts) just because a few Saxons come over 1400 years ago. I have to tell you they got wiped from power about 400 years later and that there have been some other waves of settlement since too.
BTW - how would you feel about unifying with Brittany?
Hey! Most people in Cornwall are in favour of that. Westminster justs wants to lump us in with Devon all the time though... :(Quote:
I'm all in favour of self determination of populations if that's what they want and presumably the first stage in a campaign of that sort would be a independant gallup poll to show popular support followed by getting a majority in local seats in the House of Commons. If you can't manage that then you can't really claim 'popular support'.
I think we'd have more in common! ;)Quote:
BTW - how would you feel about unifying with Brittany?
You are really starting to piss me offQuote:
Originally posted by Fried Egg
These arrogant English need to be told a thing or two
I think you need to go back to school and learn what nationality you are.
No fun being called arrogant is it Chris?;)
Well we are arrogant, we're British, it comes with the territory :rolleyes: Could be worse. We could be French *shudder*
'Course, Cornwall is British too, and they're just the same as the rest of us except they whinge about slightly different things ;)
No....not French:eek::D
"me idea is best"
"why?"
"coz I is French"
"ok, but why?"
"coz I is french"
Whilst I acknoledge Cornwall's distince culture and heritage (I lived there for five years), I do not think cultural or ethnic distinction is a basis for seperation.
Personally, I think Britain is enriched by it's cultural diversity.
Instead of looking for things that make us different, we should look for things that make us the same.
Hatred for the French?Quote:
Originally posted by simonm
Instead of looking for things that make us different, we should look for things that make us the same.
The English government take 1.954 billion pounds per year from Cornwall.
It puts in 1.651.
In a three years period we will be robbed to the order of 1 billion pounds.
(I can give a detailed fiscal analysis).
Over the period of objective one the EU will give 737 million, England will take roughly twice that back.
Doing us good are they??
Bloody seperatists.
Bah, go and eat your pasties.
man, get real. we all get robbed in a similar fashion
Is the level of public spending around here anywhere NEAR that of taxes collected - not on your life.
Cornwall is rubbish. I haven't even been there and I know that.
Anyway, what's with Cornish people wanting out of England? It's the same attitude in Yorkshire, even if they often do say in a tongue-in-cheek tone.
C'mon, a little bit of English pride isn't as xenophobic or racist as some PC losers will have you believe (hell - even English people pretend to be Irish on St Patrick's Day and don't know when St George's Day is.) Pah!
And now we've got Argentina, we're just gonna have to pull together.
man the really blows. I don't think we could have a worse group.Quote:
Originally posted by sweevo
And now we've got Argentina, we're just gonna have to pull together.
But YET AGAIN the French have got it easy...cucking funts.
Yeah, and Brazil. I know they're Brazil, but they were'nt the most convincing in qualification, man. We win our group and get drawn with Argies, while Brazil come, what, third (?) and get easy-o-group-me-do.
And now Sepp Blatter wants to stop the winners automatically qualifying for the next one. So England will have to qualify again (a little bit of optimism never did anyone any harm.)
Anyway, we digress from this thread's subject. But is that really a bad thing?
Exactly. I personally pay far more in tax than I receive in services - in worse proportions than Cornwall. Taxation is all about the redistribution of wealth on a fairly arbitrary basis. Suck it up, Fried Egg. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally posted by chrisjk
man, get real. we all get robbed in a similar fashion
Is the level of public spending around here anywhere NEAR that of taxes collected - not on your life.
Well it's only fair to point out that, whilst Cornwall has recently been recognised as one of the poorests regions in the european union, wealth is apparently being redistributed out of cornwall.Quote:
Taxation is all about the redistribution of wealth on a fairly arbitrary basis.