Cornish Independance

**Fried Egg** · Nov 7th, 2001, 07:59 AM

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!

**RSINGH** · Nov 7th, 2001, 08:04 AM

Now that we have your recipe for pasties, I can't see the problem.

**Pix** · Nov 7th, 2001, 08:05 AM

Go away then

**Bonker Gudd** · Nov 7th, 2001, 08:10 AM

Prince Charles owns Cornwall anyway.

**Mark Sreeves** · Nov 7th, 2001, 08:13 AM

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?

**Kzin** · Nov 7th, 2001, 08:25 AM

Originally posted by Bonker Gudd
Prince Charles owns Cornwall anyway.

They can have independence if they take Prince Charles. Citizenship will be granted to native Cornish Speakers

**Gaffer** · Nov 7th, 2001, 08:46 AM

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!

Good idea - Cornwall's thriving economy should keep you bouyant without westminster's coffers for at least a millenium

**Fried Egg** · Nov 7th, 2001, 09:17 AM

Gaffer -

Good idea - Cornwall's thriving economy should keep you bouyant without westminster's coffers for at least a millenium

So, now you've bled us dry, we've got no choice but to depend on England?

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 -

When is it England's turn?

Hey, start your own thread!

RSINGH -

Now that we have your recipe for pasties, I can't see the problem.

Well - You've got our recipe but you still can't get it right can you!

**RSINGH** · Nov 7th, 2001, 09:20 AM

Originally posted by Fried Egg

Well - You've got our recipe but you still can't get it right can you!

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Even worse - look what we did for that traditional Dutch delicacy - Hash Browns, its full of effin' potatoes

**chrisjk** · Nov 7th, 2001, 09:51 AM

Originally posted by Fried Egg
So, now you've bled us dry, we've got no choice but to depend on England?

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

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???

**InvisibleDuncan** · Nov 7th, 2001, 09:56 AM

I'm also declaring my independence, and setting myself up as a tax-haven.

**simonm** · Nov 7th, 2001, 10:04 AM

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

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).

**chrisjk** · Nov 7th, 2001, 10:04 AM

can i set up "techinacally" off-shore back accounts with you?

**Bonker Gudd** · Nov 7th, 2001, 10:06 AM

The trouble with the Cornish is that they all have bushy eyebrows and webbed hands/feet.

**chrisjk** · Nov 7th, 2001, 10:06 AM

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).

I've got my own language, it's called Bollox, therefore I declare me independant

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.

**Fried Egg** · Nov 7th, 2001, 10:12 AM

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!

**chrisjk** · Nov 7th, 2001, 10:17 AM

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.

**chrisjk** · Nov 7th, 2001, 10:21 AM

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

**InvisibleDuncan** · Nov 7th, 2001, 10:22 AM

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.

**HarryW** · Nov 7th, 2001, 10:22 AM

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

**InvisibleDuncan** · Nov 7th, 2001, 10:25 AM

Originally posted by HarryW
I'd love to see what the Cornish Ministry of Defense came up with

You could set up your own country with hybrid Anglo-American spelling, Harry.

**RSINGH** · Nov 7th, 2001, 10:26 AM

And I thought it was only religous guys who were a bit nutty...

**HarryW** · Nov 7th, 2001, 10:28 AM

A good point well made, Duncan

**chrisjk** · Nov 7th, 2001, 10:29 AM

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

**InvisibleDuncan** · Nov 7th, 2001, 10:33 AM

... or build the world's first all-tin aeroplane.

**chrisjk** · Nov 7th, 2001, 10:35 AM

which would take off from that major airport they've...oh wait, scrub that

**Fried Egg** · Nov 7th, 2001, 10:46 AM

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.

well they could throw all those peices of coal they've got lying around at passing fighter aircraft.

Hey, we don't mine coal down here, we mine (or did) tin.

Why don't you just give us back our freedom?

**chrisjk** · Nov 7th, 2001, 10:48 AM

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?

**RSINGH** · Nov 7th, 2001, 10:52 AM

I blame Norman

**InvisibleDuncan** · Nov 7th, 2001, 10:55 AM

Norman? Mr N. Conquest, is that?

**RSINGH** · Nov 7th, 2001, 10:56 AM

**RSINGH** · Nov 7th, 2001, 10:57 AM

Actually why don't we also lay some of the blame on Julius and Augustus's doorstep while we're at it...

**HarryW** · Nov 7th, 2001, 10:59 AM

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?

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.

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.

**InvisibleDuncan** · Nov 7th, 2001, 11:00 AM

Bloody Romans. What have they ever done for us?

(Where's MontyPython4U when you need him?)

**InvisibleDuncan** · Nov 7th, 2001, 11:01 AM

Originally posted by HarryW
That is inexcapeable unless you move Cornwall to the moon, which right now isn't sounding like a bad idea.

Moon pasties? They'll never catch on.

**Pix** · Nov 7th, 2001, 11:03 AM

Originally posted by InvisibleDuncan
Bloody Romans. What have they ever done for us?

(Where's MontyPython4U when you need him?)

What about the aqueduct?

**RSINGH** · Nov 7th, 2001, 11:05 AM

...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.

**RSINGH** · Nov 7th, 2001, 11:07 AM

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!]

**InvisibleDuncan** · Nov 7th, 2001, 11:12 AM

Originally posted by RSINGH
[enter whatever you wish!]

Right - where's that Claudia?

**Fried Egg** · Nov 7th, 2001, 11:15 AM

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!

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