should cornwall have Independence?

Question

do you think cornwall should become autonomous? i think they should as cornwall has a long history which spans longer than the british empire. there is other reasons which i shall list
1.cornwall has its own celtic language (kernewek) which is going through a revival (some kids are being brought up bilingual)
2.it has a history which spans longer that England's and the british empires
3.cornwall used to have its own monarchy and armies
4.cornish people as an ethnic group are modern celts, like the welsh (close cousins) etc
5.each country, such as scotland, wales, ireland etc all signed the act of union, cornwall never did.

another reason campaigners such as mebyon kernow want Independence is so they can get the cornish language and cornish history taught in cornish schools

so what do you think?

Answer 1

Depends what you mean, your question isn't really clear and I can see one of three options:



- Complete independence from the UK, to become a republic (Like the Republic of Ireland)



- To remain part of the UK but be recognised as one of the constituent countries (ie - England, Scotland , Wales, Northern Ireland and Cornwall)



- To remain part of the UK and also part of England but to be recognised as a 'State' of England with it's own laws and governor etc

Answer 2

Nothing you have said makes Cornwall any different from most counties of England, many counties were formerly Kingdoms that had their own Kings, languages, armies and have history that predates "England"... never heard of Boadicea, Canute, ? Even the much maligned County of Essex was a Kingdom who's Kings claimed to be direct descendants of Odin.



Cornish as a first language nearly died out, why, because it's of no real use in the modern world. Even a 100 years ago the start of the 'revival' it needed reviving because it was being corrupted by English, (the same way French is today). Think I'm wrong, trying translating "I need a new battery for my radio" into Cornish. How about "Where can I buy some petrol" Don't forget there isn't even agreement about what 'Cornish' is. There's Unified Cornish, Unified Cornish Revised, Kernewek Kemmyn, Revived Late Cornish, the Standard Written Form, and Kernowek Standard.



Don't get me wrong, I'm all for keeping old languages alive. But it's like a steam railway, as enchanting as it may be, you wouldn't want to have to use it every day.



I'm even more for teaching local history in school, including Cornish history in Cornwall, after all it has to be more relevant than ancient Greek or Roman history doesn't it ?



Education on Cornish history and culture is great, Independence is frankly a silly idea and the harsh truth is Cornwall can't afford it.

Answer 3

Independence from who exactly, UK, Great Britain, England, Devon?

How do you unsign the Act of Union? Even the Scots don't seem so keen on breaking away anymore.

You "reasons" are just statements of fact, not well thought through arguments.

In Wales they seem to manage to teach local history & the Welsh language with everything that you have listed applying to them.

As beautiful as Cornwall is I encounter as many London/Surrey accents as Cornish when I'm down there.

Your 6 MPs are all members of the government (3 Con 3,LD), do you really think that they would risk losing the party whip?

Its all rather fanciful & lets face it, its never gonna happen.

Answer 4

No on the concept that Cornwall's Celtic historic previous has been lifeless for a lengthy time period, in reality i don't think of there is absolutely everyone there who can remember the historic previous or maybe talk the language. If Cornwall has suffered from English oppression it might want to were complicit in that oppression considering that they have been English for over a million,000 years. Cornwall become never annexed, it become merged in to England over a a million,000 years in the past even as different small kingdoms of england grew to grow to be area of the better total.

Answer 5

Independence from who? I had a cornish pasty for my lunch. ♣