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Keeping Cornwall Whole

Graham Smith | 15:38 UK time, Wednesday, 29 September 2010

Adam Killeya, Mayor of Saltash, emails with an update:

"We are holding a (cross-party & cross-Cornwall) 'Respect the Tamar' rally in Saltash on Jubilee Green at 2pm on Sunday 10th October to whip up Regional and National Attention for the Keep Cornwall Whole cause, just before it comes back to Parliament that following week.


"For the rally at Saltash we are expecting a turnout of 500 plus, with various speakers including me as Mayor of Saltash, the Grand Bard of the Gorsedd, the Chairman of Cornwall Council (all confirmed), as well as the MPs and others. we will also have music and probably a good old rendition of Trelawney!

"Any help you can give in promoting this event, especially in the week just before the 10th, would be really appreciated.

"Members of Keep Cornwall Whole will also be parading down the Cornish border on the 8th and 9th of October, with stop offs at a number of towns and parishes, arriving at Cargreen on the evening of the 9th. Perhaps Radio Cornwall could also cover this on the 9th - with update on progress etc, to build awareness for the rally on the 10th."

Can't promise, but will try.

Comments

  • Comment number 1.

    500 plus is hardly representative. You would need to add another three digits on the end to find the populace and if you add the population of Devon quadruple that figure. I will go on record now and say no more than 100 people will attend most will be children dragged along to fill a camera lens and as we all know it will change nothing and in the end only confirm how easy it is to walk over Cornwall thus weakening our position as ordinary people do not want to be associated with nats, even those who want to keep the borders as they are.

    We have seen this before, in the end it only weakens us

  • Comment number 2.

    This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.

  • Comment number 3.

    This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.

  • Comment number 4.

    Andrew Jacks, I am sure that he feels the same about you.

  • Comment number 5.

    "National Attention"

    Pips great expectations, I see MPs feature low down on his list given they are the people implemented by this change. I have not a clue what influence the Grand Bard of the Gorsedd thinks he has but I suggest the MPs have more though I appreciate much less than other MP's

  • Comment number 6.

    Tho' thy way be darkened, still in splendour drest,
    As the star that trembles o'er the liquid West.
    Throned amid the billows, throned inviolate,
    Thou hast reigned victorious, thou has smiled at fate.

  • Comment number 7.

    "I have not a clue what influence the Grand Bard of the Gorsedd thinks he has"?

    No influence at all. But still better than saying," By the way, Mick Paynter will be popping in for a chat"

  • Comment number 8.

    "鈥arading down the Cornish border鈥"

    Love to see that as it is in the middle of the Tamar

  • Comment number 9.

    Just wondering. Is there a minimum amount of folk needed to qualify as a "parade"?

    Bearded, be-flagged and be-kilted,they go,
    The tide of the Tamar, will halt, mid-flow.
    Trelawny would have been proud, this day,
    When a parade of the patriots wend their way.


  • Comment number 10.

    Wish someone would tell me what I said to break the news, only way I will learn

  • Comment number 11.

    'Peter Tregantle': 'Love to see that as it is in the middle of the Tamar'

    You appear to be confused about where the actual Duchy Of Cornwall terrestrial and tidal borders lie. This might help you clarify your thinking:



  • Comment number 12.

    AccurateChronometer no you are usual. The Tamer is only recently used as the border as you have been told many times before. The truth hurts and the Duchy is not a country.

  • Comment number 13.

    They want a Duchy, but not a Duke,
    They want a border that a Saxon took.
    They have a fancy phrase, which is "de jure"
    While folk are homeless, ignored and poor.


  • Comment number 14.

    鈥淭hey鈥 are a jelly mixture untied under a banner of revulsion willing to compromise with other hate mongers but not the ordinary Joe public. In the end they just become more fanatic and compromised than had they walked alone and compromised with those that matter, rather than fruit bats seeking to find justification for being Cornish Victor Meldrews, who want Cornwall to be another Ireland and at war with ones brother and sister

  • Comment number 15.

    Hello all,

    38 Degree's has short-listed the Keep Cornwall Whole campaign. Now we just need as many people as possible to vote for it on the 38 Degree's website here:

    Equally you can leave comments.

    Please vote and circulate.

  • Comment number 16.

    Saltashgaz, once again you attempt to peddle your gospel of hate.
    Once again, the only hate on display here is yours.
    This is not a "Nationalist" campaign, but a Cornish one, it is the hate you bare for those who hold different political opinions to you that keeps you bitter, and as this case clearly demonstrates, marginalised.
    Check out those who support the "Keep Cornwall Whole" campaign, and see the cross party support that it enjoys.
    How about turning up on the 10th, it's not that far from you, and, with your friend, Mr. Tregantle, hold a counter protest, you could even invite all the thousands of supporters you feel you have.

  • Comment number 17.

    "Hate" 3 times in that post,P_Trembath. "Bitter" once.
    Where in Saltashgaz's post did he "peddle" any "gospel of hate"?

    You posted;

    "This is not a "Nationalist" campaign, but a Cornish one".

    Really? I think you better tell the Celtic League that, and all the various splinter Celtic groups, who see themselves just as "oppressed" as the Irish, Welsh, Tibetans and Palestinians.

  • Comment number 18.

    This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.

  • Comment number 19.

    Slimslad wrote:-
    ""Hate" 3 times in that post,P_Trembath. "Bitter" once.
    Where in Saltashgaz's post did he "peddle" any "gospel of hate"?"

    Gary has spent the last couple of years going around various sites, claiming that Cornish Nationalists "hate" the English. He claims that Cornish Nationalists are "hate mongers". That is his "gospel of hate". Read his post, it is hardly a message of peace and love.
    In an attempt to "prove" his gospel, he insults any nationalist he can find, starting of mildly, and getting more and more abusive, until they snap and return an insult, this he then claims as proof. If anyone that stands up to his bullying, he then claims that they can not debate, "moot", and calls on everyone else to ignore them.


    Slimslad wrote:-
    "Really? I think you better tell the Celtic League that, and all the various splinter Celtic groups, who see themselves just as "oppressed" as the Irish, Welsh, Tibetans and Palestinians."

    Depending on where you are in the world, you will find many who will argue that none of those you list are "oppressed", then again, depending on where you are in the world, you will find people who will argue they are.
    But, I said that this campaign, the "Keep Cornwall whole" campaign is not a "nationalist" one. Yes, nationalists support it, but so do many others. Check out their website, I will not provide it here, as it seems that some web addresses cause your post to languish in cyber limbo, waiting for the god of moderation to decide if it is an acceptable one or not. But you can find it easily enough with most search engines. If you do check out their website, you will see that apart from a few Nationalists and nationalist groups, the vast majority of its supporters are "normal", It has cross party support, it has support from many different councils across Cornwall, and many different individuals.

  • Comment number 20.

    I am very wary of "links". You would think that, by definition,a link would take you to a site that was "linked" to the site you have just looked at,(i.e. a site with similar views). Often these sites are not only similar, they are the same person, just a different website. I think it is called "self-perpetuating truths".

    But I am fascinated. Who are these "few Nationalists and nationalist groups" (As if I didn't know!)

  • Comment number 21.

    Slimslad wrote:-
    "But I am fascinated. Who are these "few Nationalists and nationalist groups" (As if I didn't know!)"

    Slimslad, if you already know, why ask?

    But, like I said, check out the website, and see for yourself the support that this campaign has from all walks of life.
    If you wish to discredit the campaign, at least try to do so from a position of fact.

  • Comment number 22.

    I am not trying to "discredit the campaign". I just don't see the point of a campaign to "Keep Cornwall Whole", when,( as for as Parliamentary Constituencies go), Cornwall's borders have altered in the past.

  • Comment number 23.

    The Mayor of Saltash states;

    "For the rally at Saltash we are expecting a turnout of 500 plus, with various speakers including me as Mayor of Saltash, the Grand Bard of the Gorsedd, the Chairman of Cornwall Council (all confirmed), as well as the MPs and others."

    You would think he would have mentioned representatives of Mebyon Kernow, if not Dick Cole himself, then M.K. Councillors? Stephen and Stuart, will you be there?

  • Comment number 24.

    Well, the 'Slimslad'/'Peter Tregantle'/'Saltash Gaz'/'Andrew Jacks' anti-Cornish consortium, it appears you are distinctly out on a limb on this one:

    Keep Cornwall Whole campaign - - Support Across The Board From All Quarters:

    "KCW Supporters:
    So far we have received messages of support (as of 15/9) from:
    Dan Rogerson MP (Lib Dem, North Cornwall)
    Sheryll Murray MP (Conservative, South East Cornwall)
    Stephen Gilbert MP (Lib Dem, St Austell & Newquay)
    Andrew George MP (Lib Dem, St Ives)
    Sarah Newton MP (Conservative, Truro & Falmouth)
    George Eustace MP (Conservative, Cambourne and Redruth)
    Lord Teverson
    Cornwall Labour Party
    Cornwall Green Party
    Mebyon Kernow
    Cornwall Council Unanimously, as well as several individual councillors
    The Stannary Parliament
    Mick Paynter, Grand Bard, Cornish Gorsedd
    Cornish Quest
    Cornwall Talking
    St Piran-in-Penwith

    Cornwall Gateway Community Network Area (encompassing Saltash & Torpoint Town Councils, and St Germans, Landrake, Landulph, Pillaton, Botus Fleming, Millbrook, Maker with Rame, Antony, St John and Sheviock Parish Councils)

    The following Town and Parish councils have passed motions of support that they have let us know about:
    Saltash TC
    St Germans PC
    Sithney PC
    Madron PC
    Wendron PC
    Perranzabuloe PC
    Luxulyan PC
    Launceston TC
    Boyton PC
    Week St Mary PC
    Breage PC
    Sancreed PC
    Calstock PC
    Looe TC
    St Newlyn East PC
    Callington TC
    Truro CC
    Morval PC
    Crowan PC
    and several hundred private individuals (via our Facebook Group 鈥楰eep Cornwall Whole鈥 - )

    Our letter to MPs and submission to the House of Commons Committee on Political and Constitutional Reform, signed by the Convenor of KCW Adam Killeya, Town Mayor of Saltash, was also supported by
    Cllr Doris Ansari, Leader of Liberal Democrat Group on Cornwall Council
    Cllr Michael Clayton, Deputy Leader of Independent Group on Cornwall Council
    Cllr Dick Cole, Leader of Mebyon Kernow and MK Group on Cornwall Council
    Cllr Roger Creagh-Osborne, Spokesperson for the Cornish Green Party
    Cllr Alec Robertson, Leader of Cornwall Council and Conservative Group on Cornwall Council
    Mrs Jude Robison, Chair of the Cornwall Labour Party "

  • Comment number 25.

    "Well, the 'Slimslad'/'Peter Tregantle'/'Saltash Gaz'/'Andrew Jacks' anti-Cornish consortium, it appears you are distinctly out on a limb on this one:"

    Not "anti-Cornish" AccurateChronometer. Anti-empty rhetoric, perhaps. Do you really think that "messages of support and motions of support" will have any effect on the outcome? That the "Cornwall Six" will vote against their own parties? What possible leverage could the Grand Bard and the Stannery Parliament exert? I just hope the day is fine for you, I really do. Don't forget the usual close focus photographs.

  • Comment number 26.

    Another nationalist (AC) conspiracy theory, how unusual. I just wish they would explain WHY any one would want to conspire against them. They are the ones off-piste and seeking the Cornish davinci code

  • Comment number 27.

    ???????????

    What Conspiracy theory?

  • Comment number 28.

    Slimslad wrote:-
    "You would think he would have mentioned representatives of Mebyon Kernow, if not Dick Cole himself, then M.K. Councillors? Stephen and Stuart...."

    Why?

  • Comment number 29.

    It does not matter how many faux lists TK makes they are short by the 250,00 required to be representative and that鈥檚 not counting three times as many people living in Devon All the people on TKs list have what they call a vested interest and are not unbiased

    As the brighter amongst you worked out the conspiracy theory was a reference to ACs consortium comment.

  • Comment number 30.

    Tregantle, once again you display your complete lack of knowledge of the subject with pride.
    The list that AccurateChronometer provided is a direct copy and paste from the website he provided the link to.

    The figures you quote are totally irrelevant, (ignoring your typo), and what Devon has to do with it is a complete mystery, known only to yourself.

  • Comment number 31.

    Peter enters classroom (stage right)

    Right children under Metaphor read the following in this blog

    Trembath, MK, Success.

    Peter exits classroom (stage right)

  • Comment number 32.

    Just heard that Mike Chappell of the Celtic League has threatened to go on hunger-strike "if the rally at the Tamar fails"

  • Comment number 33.

    He does not get the idea does he?

  • Comment number 34.

    32. At 1:33pm on 04 Oct 2010, Slimslad wrote:
    Just heard that Mike Chappell of the Celtic League has threatened to go on hunger-strike "if the rally at the Tamar fails"

    Slim is this a rumour or a dream?

  • Comment number 35.

    A hunger-strike is not something you can cancel without opening oneself to ridicule, I believe. You have to admire the man for his committment.

  • Comment number 36.

    All too true, Andrew.


  • Comment number 37.

    "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."

    (Bertrand Russell)

  • Comment number 38.

    The free speech we have encourages warped ideals, just look towards the extremists in Luton and look again here. The same song sheet just one has more followers than the other

  • Comment number 39.

    "It's the Tamar, not the Amazon, for Heaven's sake."
    Oh, Mr Cameron, what an awful mistake to make!
    Now what you'll have is an awful to-do!
    St Piran may even put a curse on you!
    On Sunday, folk will be spewing their bile.
    With luck, they may meet the odd crocodile.

  • Comment number 40.

    This made me chuckle.

    "Preceded by 1.15-2pm boat crossing of the Tamar from Saltash to Devon,
    and back to Saltash, accompanied by a variety of Cornish boats."

    Will this "variety of Cornish boats" actually land anyone in Devon?
    An invasion, even?
    Should the loyal folk of Devon stand off this invasion?
    Rotten eggs and tomatoes at the ready.
    God! I would pay to see Khappell's Keltic Krew with egg on their face, and beards!

  • Comment number 41.

    Alls quiet here is saltash, just walked past the mayor鈥檚 cheap little home on the green, one could expect more than a 110K squat 15 foot for major but lets be honest what kind of person is drawn to such a role?

  • Comment number 42.

    B.B.C. Cornwall seems to think the Mayor is not worth a mention.



    Nor the "great and good" of the nationalists. Shame

  • Comment number 43.

    Saltashgaz wrote:-
    "Alls quiet here is saltash, just walked past the mayor鈥檚 cheap little home on the green, one could expect more than a 110K squat 15 foot for major but lets be honest what kind of person is drawn to such a role?"

    Rather a snobbish comment Gaz.
    Just goes to show the sort of person you are.
    Ugh ugh.

  • Comment number 44.

    Should be a good day out?

  • Comment number 45.

    Oh Dear!
    Someone has removed Mr Chappell's comment.
    Something about urinating on Westminster politicians,(or words to that effect)?

  • Comment number 46.

    Another quiet day here in saltash, spotted a few ugly fat females with black T-shirts on, no doubt either touting for work or here for nut conference, the news is full of stories that 5,000 expected, if they are they are very late

  • Comment number 47.

    Sums up the kind of person he is, the same comment appears on another link

  • Comment number 48.




    "More than 200 people held a rally in Saltash on Sunday over plans for a 75,000-voter strong constituency which would unite parts of both counties."



  • Comment number 49.

    There was not 200 members of the pubic, voters. Real voters were very absent. Can you bame them?

  • Comment number 50.

    The Boundary Commission are fully aware 90% of people in Saltash either work or have close ties with Plymouth unlike the nuts protesting today, if you look at what Boundary Commission have to take into consideration saltash has more in common with Plymouth than it does the nuts from the sticks, out of the 10 people in my street only one of them was born in cornwal ME!

  • Comment number 51.

    Mr Chappell on the "Mikerephone"

  • Comment number 52.

    "It was so good to see hundreds and hundreds there and from all
    political persuasions, left to right and from so many parts - 'One & All'."

    (Michael Chappell, Celtic League)

  • Comment number 53.

    Slimslad wrote:-
    "Mr Chappell on the "Mikerephone""
    Actually, on the microphone was Mick Paynter, the Grand Bard of the Cornish Gorseth, but never mind eh.

  • Comment number 54.

    Saltashgaz wrote:-
    "There was not 200 members of the pubic, voters. Real voters were very absent."
    Give it up Gary, your trying too hard now. If they were not "members of the public", what were they? (Within House Rules Please) And what, in your narrow opinion, is a "real voter"? (Again, within House Rules Please)

  • Comment number 55.

    Wrong Mick, same puzzled look from the huge audience.("Who he"?)

  • Comment number 56.

    Every cloud....

    MC has said I have also told them that as of 10AM 10 10 10 I am on hunger strike for the forseeable
    future.

  • Comment number 57.

    Plus.

    "I now have another Cornish patriot who has offered to join me on the hunger strike"

  • Comment number 58.

    The Bill begins the Committee Stage in the Commons on Tuesday. There should be rumblings after that.

  • Comment number 59.

    Chubbs will not follow through, bet he's already been at the pies. Anyways it is easy to tell after three days when Ketosis kicks in by three weeks Starvation mode takes over, then the vital organs start to shut down. All over by Christmas, really not wise and should not be encouraged

    For an alleged none political person seems like a stupid cause to die for, he isn't Gandhi

  • Comment number 60.

    All I was doing in comment 59 was pointing out what starvation means, as a public health warning



    In the first 3 days, the body is still using energy from glucose. After that, the liver starts processing body fat, in a process called ketosis. After 3 weeks the body enters in "starvation mode". At this point the body "mines" the muscles and vital organs for energy, and loss of bone marrow becomes life-threatening. There are examples of hunger strikers dying after 52 to 74 days of strike.


  • Comment number 61.

    There are easier ways to lose weight, apparently?


  • Comment number 62.

    After three days Ketone sticks will show if he is honest

  • Comment number 63.

    You folks should get the reactions of Cornish Americans (such as me) who, when they come to Cornwall
    1.) spend money
    and
    2) do so to touch base with "roots"

    We come not merely to lie on the beaches...we can do that here.
    Contact the Cornish American society to get a window into sentiment.

    Destroy the heritage, parlimentarians, and you destroy a rationale for us to come and spend tourist dollars there.

  • Comment number 64.




    "Cornish Americans (such as me)"

    Yes, "Julia".

    How is Redruth this time of year?

  • Comment number 65.

    "Cornish Americans (such as me)"

    Yes, "Julia".

    How is Redruth this time of year?
    Sarcasm does you no favours Slimslad

  • Comment number 66.

    Well,Rialobran, you might not know this, but Mr Chappell has several "alter-egos", which he uses,(with a definite concentration on the "ego" bit).

    Many of his pals in the Celtic League do the same thing.
    It exaggerates the amount of "followers"

  • Comment number 67.

    Well I don't have an alter ego, and I am a member, and I can't believe the others are all 'alts' either.

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