Another one living in a bubble?

[Smiler.]

Eden Project creator Sir Tim Smit criticises Cornish people in expletive-laden rant

"effing inarticulate tts"

Ee's not from 'round there.

[konark]

Torygraph paywall.

[carinaman]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/feb/16/ed...

He was on BBC Radio 4 that had a recording of him on BBC Cornwall saying he's known the Podcaster for years and to a certain degree he was playing the role of the other side. It seems some locals may have moaned about Rick Stein's restaurants taking over Padstow and not being so good for the locals.

[greygoose]

There is a certain truth to what he said, some people do look back to an imaginary time and say everything was better then (not just people in Cornwall, though there are a fair few there). He was probably a bit blunt but the people moaning would have been unhappy however he put it.

[anonymous-user]

I do get fed of hearing about people in rural areas moaning about people from outside the area pricing them out of the property market or daring to come and visit.

Perhaps said locals should insist on selling their houses only to local people at an affordable valuation instead of cashing in by selling to the highest bidder. I have occasionally seen people actually do this in parts of Wales.

To be fair I don’t see that the Cornish represents any more of a unique cohesive culture than say Scousers or Yam Yams or even Devonians. All areas of Britain have distinct local identities and even linguistic and cultural signifiers. And Brythonic dialects like Welsh or Cornish were once spoken all over the UK and didn’t die out until comparatively recently.