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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20070613/ten-extremists-threaten-celebrity-chefs-5a7c575.html

I was listening to this story on the way into work this morning and it sounds a bit more sinister than the story details above. Damaging peoples second homes in the Conrnwall area Including torching them to the ground, Implying personal harm to some celebrities who live in the area. The news report also went onto say that there is a proper millitant website set up and is being hosted via an ISP in Egypt who have hosted other inflamatory sites from the Middle East. All of this for independence for Cornwall. The mind truly does boggle
 
Maybe they see how much sympathy Islamic terrorists are getting in this country and think they'll have a bit of that.
 
What I find sad is that I'd never heard about this until it happened to Jamie Oliver.

Is it only important when it happens to a rich person or what these days?
 
The thing that I can't understand is when you goto places like this all the road signs in English are scrubbed out and some really choice langauge "About going back to England safely". Don't they realise that if it wasn't for the tourism then the respective towns and citys would be a lot worse than what they are
 
At first I thought it was a joke but from what I heard on the radio they want autonomy or independence for a celtic nation :confused:
 
Loki said:
At first I thought it was a joke but from what I heard on the radio they want autonomy or independence for a celtic nation :confused:
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lol funniest thing ive ever heard. Ok so they get it... we just put boarder controls on the motorways so people wont come on holiday and starve them into submission as they wont have any money!

From now on im boycotting pasties and cornish dairy ice cream!!!........ hmm on second thoughts...
 
It may interest you to know that during the dark ages, Anglo-Saxon immigrants took over the vast majority of the land of Britain and forced the native Britons into what became Wales and Cornwall. For some reason Wales became its own country (until the 14th century I think) but Cornwall became part of England. Therefore some Cornish have their own distinct self identity and desire to not be part of England or the UK, they even have their own political party, Mebyon Kernow or something.

I can understand that the problems for Cornwall (Englands poorest county) are exascerbated by people owning holiday homes there, pricing out the local Cornish. Obviously I don't agree that burning down these homes or targetting tourist attractions is a particularly good way of making things better.
 
scorza said:
It may interest you to know that during the dark ages, Anglo-Saxon immigrants took over the vast majority of the land of Britain and forced the native Britons into what became Wales and Cornwall. For some reason Wales became its own country (until the 14th century I think) but Cornwall became part of England. Therefore some Cornish have their own distinct self identity and desire to not be part of England or the UK, they even have their own political party, Mebyon Kernow or something.

I can understand that the problems for Cornwall (Englands poorest county) are exascerbated by people owning holiday homes there, pricing out the local Cornish. Obviously I don't agree that burning down these homes or targetting tourist attractions is a particularly good way of making things better.
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Yeah i know a fair bit of the history and i totally agree that this "holiday home" problem is well out of hand, but the idea of an independant cornish state is so reduculous its untrue. They would be better off trying to get some local support for direct action to lobby government for something to be done about the housing problems and economy... in otherwords something useful and actually achievable.
 
scorza said:
It may interest you to know that during the dark ages, Anglo-Saxon immigrants took over the vast majority of the land of Britain and forced the native Britons into what became Wales and Cornwall. For some reason Wales became its own country (until the 14th century I think) but Cornwall became part of England. Therefore some Cornish have their own distinct self identity and desire to not be part of England or the UK, they even have their own political party, Mebyon Kernow or something.

I can understand that the problems for Cornwall (Englands poorest county) are exascerbated by people owning holiday homes there, pricing out the local Cornish. Obviously I don't agree that burning down these homes or targetting tourist attractions is a particularly good way of making things better.
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The Cornish like any other people do not want to see their home turned into something else by a sudden rush of immigrants. I can completely understand where they are coming from.
 
VIRII said:
The Cornish like any other people do not want to see their home turned into something else by a sudden rush of immigrants. I can completely understand where they are coming from.
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On that i agree totally.
 
Take it from me, they're a complete joke nothing more. Worst they've really done to date is to paint Cornish flags over all the English Heritage road signs.
Torching houses etc is rot; They've claimed responsibility for a few mildly dodgy fires & sent a few letterbombs to magistrates in the past, but nothing really 'serious'.

Another fringe group to be ignored; Publicity only encourages them.

-Leezer-
 
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