Cornish Independence - Are they serious?!

[prand]

Leading on from the Scottish poll, and from a conversation I had with a Cornish friend (who of course, lives in England), can anyone explain to me how serious a claim of some Cornish people to become an independent nation state?

My friend got rather upset when I scoffed at her claims of centuries of ethnic cleansing and economic colonialism, and said she was just jumping on the independence bandwagon. So should I be more sympathetic?

[escargot]

[prand]

You may laugh, but apaprently, Cornish people take this issue very seriously!

[The Wookie]

Yesss, I had a very good friend at uni who was Cornish. It was a bit silly, but to be honest, would you really want to be directly associated with this dump if you had the choice?

[Soovy]

prand said:

You may laugh, but apaprently, Cornish people take this issue very seriously!

Yes, same with incest.

[bob1179]

Soovy said:

prand said:

You may laugh, but apaprently, Cornish people take this issue very seriously!

Yes, same with incest.

Webbed feet do help with swimming though.

Not that I believe incest is a good idea mind (or that I condone it). I just think webbed feet could be helpful in certain situations.

[baz1985]

People's Republic of Yorkshire.

[Chris71]

Cornish independence is almost as valid as Welsh independence (and not just because both are a conquered people). Apparently a couple of hundred years ago more people spoke Cornish than spoke Welsh. It was only when the English tried to ban the speaking of Welsh that the sheep botherers rebelled (and rightly so...) and took steps to save their language and culture. So, England actually saved the Welsh way of life. Sort of.

[DrTre]

As one of the six Celtic Nations I think it fully deserves it's independence.

Just wait til they start the proposed clotted cream embargo, then you'll be sorry.

[MartG]

baz1985 said:

People's Republic of Yorkshire.

Not forgetting the Geordie Nationalist Party

[petersLUFC]

About as ridiculous as the irish FA wanting to be the 33rd team in the World Cup tournament.

How the fook would that work with an odd number of teams? dumbasses

[sday12]

Would their terrorist arm be called the 'OOH ARR OOH ARR I A' ?

[10 Pence Short]

People from Cornwall always look ill to me. All pale and pasty.

[spaximus]

The only people who want independance are those who would get power. If they want independance really let them have it. They don't have enogh people to raise tax from to make it work. I would offer the Scots and Welsh the same, independance means totally.

[Brian Fantana]

They're very serious. Once on tour with the band, we played in Penzance and the singer of the local opening act spoke in Cornish. When pressed for a translation, he said "kill the English invaders". I assume it was directed at us & the other tourning band from London.

Lovely chap - nice bit of "tribal" tatooed on the side of his head.

[Gargamel]

Mebbion Kernow will get you

[rhinochopig]

baz1985 said:

People's Republic of Yorkshire.

http://peoplesrepublicofyorkshire.org/

[motco]

I suppose they're aboriginals...

[TheEnd]

motco said:

I suppose they're aboriginals...

Well they should bugger off back to Aborigina if they don't like it!

We may need more Pasties though, say for example, a Centre of Excellence based somewhere in the North of England.

[Vidal Baboon]

Been going on for years my 'ansome.