Beach Ices at Praa Sands
Ice meeting the sand at the base of the low cliff behind Praa Sands Beach, West Cornwall. 6th January 2009....
Icicles at Trewellard Bottoms
Water seeping through a wall is turned to icicles, ate Trewellard Bottoms, where Geevor Mine meets the sea....
Winter Sunset at Levant
A late afternoon scene, at Levant Mine, West Cornwall. 7th January 2009....
Winter at Levant
The old electricity generator building, at Levant Mine, West Cornwall, during the recent cold snap. 7th Jnauary 2009....
might vote Tory, won't be voting UKIP there an even bigger bunch of loons than MK. As I've said before extreme parties of what ever colour are never a good thing.
One of Cornwalls biggest problems is communication links, shit roads, shit rail and shit air links. Even Plymouth suffers from this, losing out to Exeter, so what hope has Cornwall. Objective one money should have been invest in these areas (like happened in Spain etc)
Infrastructure is one thing but firms to use this infrastructure and generate wealth is another.
Developing the tourist trade and roads to bring them here should only be one part of an economic approach to Cornwall because condeming Cornish youth to working in very low paid no hope service industrie jobs is no kind of solution.
That is unless you are the type to say 'i earn 60K a year i am all right sod the rest of you!'
Investment needs money from somewhere and a democratic body (elected by the people of Cornwall) to oversee the correct use of this money. Labour and the Tories do not support a Cornish Assembly and the Lib dems just don't seem to know.
Before you try and aim a snide comment at me I suggest you read my post, I didn't say I was on 60k a year (I wish), I said my HOUSEHOLD income was around 60k that’s with my wife and I working, hardly a vast sum. We both worked at school went to Uni did decent degrees (not tin pot media studies, etc) and then both did Masters after. Also both worked in shite low paid jobs for a while, so I know what its like to be “poor�. I work hard as does the wife and we're both still young with no kids. She has several mates her age with kids both getting not much off the state, (no fathers around of course, both pissed around at school etc) again that’s their decision.
Infrastructure is vital. If you’re a manufacture, or a producer you need to get your good to market., If you’re in the service sector chances are you need to be able to get to London in a reasonable time for meeting etc. I go to London several times a year as well as other parts of the UK may be once every couple of months, and its bad enough getting around from Plymouth let alone from down west. I used to work in the yard in Falmouth, had to travel in the UK when there as well and it was a bloody nightmare. But its not only Cornwall that gets overlooked, although it is worse here, most of the country think things stop at Bristol. I work in IT and there are few good jobs this side of Bristol, even fewer west of Plymouth. Why have a business in Conrwall when its another 3 hours on the train from Exeter to Penzance, why have the hassle.
All this from Fanct aBrew reminds me of the Poor Law with deserving and underserving poor etc. Perhaps the phrase 'hardworking families' has just such an echo whether used by Tories or Mew Lab.
Incidentally as one who has from time to time sent rockets to Labour HQ I am somehow on their supporters list ( to be fair in pre internet days I was a member) I have been one of the 100,000 'supporters receiving emails. Tonght I had an invite to watch the evenings sickly party bradcast (love in). Interestingly it was signed by a certain Alistair Campbell!
Still coming from the sort of man who merits an ASBO it reminded me just why not to vote Labour. I will either vote Green out of conviction or Lib Dem to keep the two dinassour parties out.
BTW nobody has explained Blair's lie about a referendum on proportional representation in 1997. Why didn't Candy hold him to account?
Your logic doesn't follow. I come from a poor background the difference is I don’t sit around and moan that the government isn't giving me enough for not getting off my arse. Or moan that Cornwall should have its own assembly etc, grow up! There are plenty of Cities in this country with populations bigger than Cornwall, should we be giving them their own assembly? You’re always harking back to the past, the UK has moved on the world has moved on and Cornwall (thank god) has moved on, pity MK hasn’t. I don’t want an assembly or any other layer of politicians spouting crap and interfering in my life thank you very much, got enough of that already.
You could get get rid of three layers of government in Westminster, SW assembly and Cornwall Council and replace with one locally elected Cornish Assembly. Where do you draw the line - Wales must be too small in your reasoning as it's population is only 2.9million compared with say Yorkshire's 5 million ?
fancyabrew, you're wasting your time, as an architypal Tory you should be out there 'battling for Britain' - balancing dodgy spreadsheets on the economy, snooping on gypsies over hedges, burying the Howard Flight tapes, along with tampered photos of immigrants and any other divisive tactic you can think of!
<<< Wales JUST voted in favour >>>
A recent poll showed that over 50% of Cornish residents are in favour of a Cornish Assembly, a much higher percentage than any other area of the UK which does not already have one.
Why don't the New Lab/Tory dinosaurs let The Duchy have a vote on it - if people in Cornwall "couldn't give a monkies" as you say what are they afraid of ?
Rise in county's road death toll
The number of people who have died on Cornwall's roads rises in the last year to 35, police say.
Film con man ordered to pay £100K
The man who swindled almost £2m in a film studio scam is ordered to forfeit £100,000 by a judge.
Triplets survive against the odds
A woman from Cornwall who gave birth to triplets 14 weeks early describes their survival as a "miracle".
Call for inquiry into fire centre
Fire chiefs demand a public inquiry into the delayed opening of the regional fire control centre.
Prison sentence for benefit cheat
A man who admitted swindling more than £51,000 in benefits over a six-year period is jailed for 18 months.
Divers face trial over shipwreck
Three Cornish divers accused of plundering a shipwreck off the coast of Spain are to be tried in a Spanish court.
‘NO’ TO NUCLEAR WASTE IN CORNWALL - MPs
Proposals to bring nuclear waste to Cornwall have been described as ‘absurd and irresponsible’ by Cornish MPs.
Route Partnership Plan for Penzance unnecessary
Their plan having been rejected by the public in the final exhibition in Septmber with 90% against the Route Partnership have decided to try again in mid January after a mailout and poster campaign.The Chamber of Commerce has been at the forefront of this campaign.
