Yesterday the Leader of Mebyon Kernow (MK) did an interview on the Daily Politics show in which he made the
case for a Cornish tickbox on the 2021 census. This follows the meeting
with the ONS that he attended in Westminster on behalf of Cornwall
Council on Wednesday.
If you didn’t get the chance to see the piece, it can be viewed at:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09jgrly/daily-politics-15122017
Dick put his case well and prevented Andrew Neil from his obvious attempt to trivialise the matter.
It was a long struggle to get Welsh or Scottish on the Census Tickbox and I like many other are frustrated when filing in forms in other areas and seeing the only option as British .
I am guilty as others when blogging to talk about Wales. Scotland and Ireland to forget about Kernow, but we need to realise that their claim to Nationhood is as valid as our own.
There is no one that is to small and has a clear identity that cannot have limits set on how it sees its place in the world.
Remember it was not untill Gwynfor and Winnie Ewing won Carmarthen and Hamilton in byelections in 1966 and 1977 that Plaid and the SNP were treated seriously,
At the last General Election Mebyon Kernow did not put up a candidate in any Cornish Constituency caught out by the Theresa May unexpected "going to the nation" in a gamble that backfired spectacularly.
If you didn’t get the chance to see the piece, it can be viewed at:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09jgrly/daily-politics-15122017
Dick put his case well and prevented Andrew Neil from his obvious attempt to trivialise the matter.
It was a long struggle to get Welsh or Scottish on the Census Tickbox and I like many other are frustrated when filing in forms in other areas and seeing the only option as British .
I am guilty as others when blogging to talk about Wales. Scotland and Ireland to forget about Kernow, but we need to realise that their claim to Nationhood is as valid as our own.
There is no one that is to small and has a clear identity that cannot have limits set on how it sees its place in the world.
Remember it was not untill Gwynfor and Winnie Ewing won Carmarthen and Hamilton in byelections in 1966 and 1977 that Plaid and the SNP were treated seriously,
At the last General Election Mebyon Kernow did not put up a candidate in any Cornish Constituency caught out by the Theresa May unexpected "going to the nation" in a gamble that backfired spectacularly.
At its 2017 National Conference, MK members
voted to put forward a candidate for the next Police and Crime
Commissioner elections, due to take place in 2020, and to contest the
next General Election, though resources will be targeted into a single
seat or a small number of seats.
Which leads me to a suggestion, How about Plaid and SNP constituency parties twinning with a MK one and providing help if not financially (but anything would help) but help with expertise and strategy information that has been gained by years of campaigning and importantly winning.
Or Yes Cymru and Yes Scotland helping in creating a Yes Kernow.?
Who knows a Byelection in a Cornish seat could one day set Mebyon Kernowon a road that leads them to become part of the Progressive coalition of SNP. Plaid and Greens at Westminster and the first step to nationhood .
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