Keep Cornwall Whole
Driving back across the Tamar Bridge into Cornwall, no ordinary border.
The government want to make constituency sizes more equal which is a reasonable idea in general. However this process will ignore all historical borders, feelings of community etc, which could mean parts of Cornwall being split off and joined with parts of Devon for seats.
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Crossing the Tamar – 1497 Cornish uprising.
Extract from John Angarrack’s ’Our Future is History‘…
To place additional pressure on Cornish society, the Duke’s father, Henry VII, rescinded the right of the Cornish to seek recourse to justice through their customary legal system. As soon as the limited protection from the Stannary Charters was withdrawn, a new imperial taxation measure was proposed. This [...]
Kernow a’gas dynergh – Welcome to Cornwall
Driving back across the Tamar Bridge…
The Tamar bridge marks the Cornish border with England. A toll operates on the English side.
In March 1998, after the closure of Europe’s last tin mine in Cornwall, South Crofty (which has since reopened), campaigners trying to raise the profile of Cornwall’s economic crisis paid the £1.00 toll in pennies.
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