With Corbyn being purged from the labour party and the BBC banning employees form attending LGBT pride events because they fear "taking sides on the trans issue" (yuck🤮🤮🤮), this needs to happen

      • RedCoat [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Yea but mostly just because they are even more racist than the rest of England. I really don't get why people on here seem to think Cornwall is ok vs the rest of England, its literally one of the most reactionary counties in the country, lots of the young people move away and old people like to retire their so its basically just full of boomers.

      • Manamo [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        indigenous Cornish people

        That's not a thing.

        Cornwall has a relatively strong regional identity, but no more so than loads of other places in England. The only thing that's really unique about it is that people carried on speaking a Brythonic language there for longer than the rest of England, before it died out in the 1700s. In the 19th century there was an effort to revive the Cornish language and create a Cornish nationalist movement, but it hasn't exactly been successful. Iirc there are like 5 native Cornish speakers nowadays, and the nationalist party Mebyon Kernow currently control 3% of the seats on the local council (they're tied with Labour lol). They're no more "indigenous" than anyone else is - that word doesn't really make sense in most of Europe and is mostly used by racists.

        • Classic_Agency [he/him,comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          But why then are they recognised as a distinct ethnic group from other English people? In the 2011 census about 73000 people identified as ethnically Cornish. Yeah most of them are probably fine with being part of England, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.