December 2023

Looking back at the 50,000 – 20 years on

Today marks the 22nd anniversary of the delivery of a CD-ROM to 10 Downing Street. The disc contained the names of over 50,000 people who had signed individual declarations calling for a Cornish Assembly. MK leader Cllr Dick Cole writes: “I am very proud to have authored the declaration and I am very proud that the campaign was initially launched by Mebyon Kernow, before it was broadened out through the cross-party Cornish Constitutional Convention to garner greater support from across the…

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MK comment on level 2 “devolution deal”

Comment from Cllr Dick Cole – Leader of Mebyon Kernow

On Tuesday 28th November, the ten-strong ruling Cabinet on Cornwall Council  voted to proceed with the so-called “level 2 devolution deal.” As someone who has campaigned for meaningful devolution for Cornwall for my entire adult life, I have to say how desperately disappointed I am at what has been agreed. It does not include the transfer of far-reaching powers from Westminster to Cornwall as has happened in Wales and Scotland. The deal is simply a range of accommodations between central government…

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