Mebyon Kernow – the Party for Cornwall has marked St Piran’s Day by launching a fully bilingual version of its “Towards a Cornish Parliament” policy document. MK’s leadership team has issued the following statement: “Troha Senedh a Gernow / Towards a Cornish Parliament is an important document that sets out a meaningful democratic settlement for Cornwall. “The bilingual basis of the publication emphasises that Cornwall is a historic nation with its own distinct identity and culture, which has the same right…

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The 5th March is an important part of the Cornish calendar and we hope that everyone will be doing something today to mark Cornwall’s national identity. Year on year, we are seeing a fantastic growth in the number of events staged to remember St Piran and it is great that our saint’s day has become such wonderful celebration of all things Cornish. It is something to be really proud of. But we think that it is also important that we work…

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At today’s meeting of Cornwall Council, MK councillors voted against the budget put forward by the Conservative administration, which increased council tax by the maximum amount of 5%. Speaking on behalf of the Mebyon Kernow / Green Party Group, Cllr Andrew Long told the meeting that “local government is in a parlous state” and is “greatly underfunded, having suffered a decade of savage cuts.” He pointed out that core government funding for local councils fell from £41…

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In it’s formal response to the consultation into the so-called “devolution deal,” Mebyon Kernow has challenged the Conservatives on the unitary authority to acknowledge that the “deal” is inadequate and to use their political influence with the Tory Government in London to bring forward a meaningful devolution settlement for Cornwall. The Party for Cornwall has repeatedly stated that the proposed “deal” is not a devolution deal at all, but a range of possible accommodations between central government and Cornwall’s unitary authority,…

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