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[Our Cornwall] CORE Strategy Incoherent

A NEW pressure group has been formed to fight against plans to build 48,000 new homes across Cornwall over the next 20 years. Our Cornwall has been formed by members…

[Mebyon Kernow] Services Privatisation a ‘Nonsense’

Mebyon Kernow – the Party for Cornwall, has hit out at the decision of Conservative-led Consel Kernow /Cornwall Council, to part-privatise a series of key services. Cornwall Council is in…

[Dan Rogerson, MP] Flag grab

This was raised by Dan Rogerson MP during a Westminster Parliamentary debate on the proposed VAT ‘pasty tax’ on Wednesday this week. “When the last runner with the Olympic flame…

Cornish marched against another Tax on Cornish Culture

Quoting Edward Rowe, aka ‘Kernow King’, from his item in the Guardian newspaper of Monday 30th April, and alluding to the 1497 Cornish Uprising march, against the King’s Taxes among…

Sick as a Parrot – an open letter

Sick as a Parrot – an open letter Dear Sir, Those who voted Conservative on the basis of statements by George Eustace and other Tories that the figures in the…

[Celtic League] Pasty Tax Not Welcome in Kernow!

In 1497 Myghal Josef an Gof and Thomas Flamank marched to London with thousands of other Cornish people in armed revolt over what were perceived as unfair tax rises that…

10 Years on – Petition for a Cornish Assembly

Councillor Cole said that “Today (10 December, 2011) marks the tenth anniversary of the presentation of 50,000 Declarations for a Cornish Assembly to 10 Downing Street. Getting over 50,000 people to…

Plaid Cymru Westminster motion for a Cornish Assembly

Mebyon Kernow leader, Dick Cole, has reported  “I am pleased to report that yesterday (12 December, 2011) in the House of Commons, our good friends in Plaid Cymru tabled an…

[Mebyon Kernow] Conference 2011 next weekend

Mebyon Kernow’s 2011 Conference takes place this weekend, the 19th and 20th November, at the Shire House Suite in Bodmin. It will mark MK’s 60th anniversary as an organisation. On…

Mebyon Kernow national conference next month

You’ve had the London Parties national conferences and their excesses and irrelevancies, and the ground-breaking SNP conference just last week – but now … The Mebyon Kernow – Party for…