Gunwalloe - Church Cove
View across Church Cove in Gunwalloe at the base of the Lizard Peninsula.
The church is St Winwalloe with it's distinctively seperate bell tower and surrounding Tamarisk hedge....
newlyn house
Wonderfully painted frontage....
rogers tower
A folly built 18th C, for Mr Rogers, a local landowner....
Could some confirm where we stand on this issue please ?
Has the proposal been passed by the Council ?
As far as I can gather the new Logo will cost us half a million poinds. Add to that the bottled water and Magazine scandals and what is the total sum being wasted by these tossers ?
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Where there's a Negative - there's always a Positive. You just have to find it.
I think not this time IJ with the public outrage it has caused. He can propose what he like, but it is still up to the chamber to reflect public opinion...........but I don't know what the state of play is at this moment in time.
edited by: GrahamHart, Jul 29, 2008 - 08:26 PM
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Where there's a Negative - there's always a Positive. You just have to find it.
I don't see why they changed it meself, The old one related much more to Cornwall and her heritage. This just seems like modern tripe attempting to look modern. I guess it does have the traditional Cornish colours, but these are also the colours of the Lib Dems.
Kéighlán, what's happened? Your posts are usualy very to the point and meaningfull but tonight you've posted nonsense and regurgitated stuff from about 3 months ago.
I was thinking, perhaps along with our money protest, perhaps we could get stickers made up of the old council logo, and stick them over any new pieces of crap we happen to see?
Sorry things that go...yeah, i just clicked on this post and couldn't be bothered, simply, to go through all the posts. I only just looked at it and saw the logo and...yeah.
I've just found out what our councillors have wasted half a million pounds of our hard-earned money on - a plagiarism of the Warren's Bakery logo.
Don't care if the silly buggers have voted their own approval. We haven't been asked yet and it ain't too late. The logo is, in my view, meaningless, and without any of the dignity that Cornwall and its unique constitutional status deserves. Instead, we have a trendy, anywhere-type logo that portrays Cornwall as no more special than MacDonald's (or Warren's Bakery). And I'll lay odds that it was designed east of the Tamar - God forbid that the Cornish should ever been seen as capable of creativity.
So, I've just had a go at designing a logo for the unitary authority. And it didn't cost half a million. I'd post it here, if I had the equipment to enable me to do it, but I haven't. I'll try the WMN.
Simply, it is topped by a stylised chough, drawn in the same Celtic style as the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age White Horse of Uffington.
The chough perches on a segmented equilateral triangle containing St Piran's Cross (segmeented because the white arms do not have an external outline), on which are superimposed the 15 gold bezants. The traditional motto: "Onen hag oll" is written in a font drawn from our 5th-9th century inscribed stones. Four colours only: black, white, gold, red (sorry PP - no pink, I'm afraid).
Why the choices?
The chough is, of course, our national bird symbol. The equilateral triangle (rather than a shield) reflects the traditional significance of the number 3 to Celtic societies; the three-line poetic Celtic triads; and the three times that Cornish forces marched on England.
The bezants reflect Cornwall's unique status as a Duchy and Palatine state.
The motto - kept in the spelling we're all used to - speaks for itself.
It's also time the tired old term "Council" was consigned to the dustbin of history, alng with "corporation". What is to stop the new authority calling itself "The Senate of Cornwall", or "the Assembly of Cornwall"? Surely it can call itself whatever it likes, whether or not it ruffles feathers in Whitehall or Westminster (in fact, use of the latter might have an influence in forcing their hands - and who gives a sod what they think, anyhow).
All it takes is a few councillors with cojones. And a lot of continued pressure from us.
“We are at the beginning of a process, and we have a strategy to achieve our long term ambition to ensure that decisions about Cornwall, which affect Cornwall and shape Cornwall, are made in Cornwall. The Government is beginning to see the light. It is aware that it is too centralised and that change is essential. The government sees Cornwall as a place which can be a test-bed for new ideas and new thinking. We need to persuade the Government that we are not only ambitious but also capable – we need to prove we can do the job.
Just as we are looking for devolution from the Government, so we are preparing to devolve powers and functions to the local level. Devolution is a principle and we are committed to achieving it.
In the medium term, we are looking to completely realign the public sector in Cornwall, and to roll back boundaries between different institutions. The unitary council is one step along the way. We have a long-term strategy. There is something inevitable about the journey to a Cornish Assembly. We see things happening around us – the dissolution of the regional assembly, changes in the way the RDA engages with sub-regions. It is important to note that Cornwall is the only ‘county’ area to be designated a ‘sub-region’. We are moving forward in creating a Cornish Development Agency. We are confident that strategic planning powers will come back to us after the regional assembly goes.
These are signals which we need to convert.
In the longer term we need to respond to the signal from Government that we should not wait to be told what to do – we should prepare to present new proposals. The Convention has been very influential in shaping thinking in Cornwall, and in shaping the perceptions of ministers and senior civil servants. How will the Convention respond to the new situation which it has contributed to creating? Will it change, and become even more involved in shaping Cornwall’s future?” '
For years and decades many dedicated people have fought for a proper Cornish National Assembly/Parliament comparable with those of Wales and Scotland, the other two Celtic Nations of mainland Britain lying NEXT to England, just like The Duchy Of Cornwall.
The 'One Cornwall' Toytown disUnitary Authority bid which Liberally ANTI-Democrat Whalley & Co made to Westminster without ANY apparent bid for a proper Cornish National Assembly/Parliament as the first choice, betrayed all those who had put so much effort, commitment and personal sacrifice into the pursuit of the proper Cornish National Assembly/Parliament.
A closer look at all those English 'One blah blah' Unitary Authority 'bids' and preparations reveals that the so-called 'One Cornwall' is no more than an identical formulaic top-down imposed package. The 'One' in the so-called 'One Cornwall' adspeak package has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with The Duchy Of Cornwall's NATIONAL motto: 'Onen Hag Oll' (One And All).
If the actualité of any of this is different from that described above, perhaps Mr Whalley will be good enough to come to Cornwall24 and explain what the differences are.
He could start a 'Talk With David' thread (might need some hands-on[not in a gravydavy sense!] proactive moderation!)
But....has David got the balls?
Perhaps Cornwall24's administrators will invite Mr Whalley to the C24 discussion boards to clarify a few points within a strictly monitored and dedicated thread...
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