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Originally Posted by Shakey

“From what I can see, the English are a minority! My shop local newsagent is lativian, my loal supermarket is full of east european accents. Dont get me wrong, I'm  not racist, but when my folks were younger, it was asian this that and the other. Nothing changes, but cornsish as a minority race, come on ”

I'm hoping anything that can help strengthened the Cornish identity and can market the Cornish brand and get us recognised in discussion marking in parliament, taking in our geographic location and cultural heritage has got to be a good thing, the discussions have gone on for a long time and this could really help the county which needs not only financial support but just to be back on the map as we are OPEN FOR BUSINESS. 

Originally Posted by Barney

“I actually lived in Callington, don't remember any of it as I was far to young at the time. I've no idea what Cornwall is like nowadays, it use to be a fab place, spent 2 weeks every year during the summer in my teens at Tregantle Fort, nice deserted beaches, rock pool fishing in Looe, deep sea fishing at Rame Head, building camp fires out of driftwood found on the beaches, probably not allowed to do any of that sort of stuff now. Oh how much I would love to go back and do all that again.....”

NOTHING much has changed, you can still do all that, although some "up country" wiz takes the driftwood and makes it into something arty and sells it around the world for mega bucks. LOL

Hi

I'm Cornish, born in Cornwall EAST CORNWALL just before THEY made pregnant Mum's to be drive to Plymouth in Devon and have foreign kids .... Truro was too far and didn't want the extra work so for a long time people have been trying to establish their CORNISH identity.

Now recently a lot of news has been flooding in over the severe storms, eroding the coastline, destroying landmarks, devastating livelyhoods, and then the train tracks at DAWLISH cut us off.

But we made pasties and sent them to the needy in Somerset, farmers sent feed and tractors and manpower and we got on with it.

Cornwall was fishing and farming both have dramatically suffered, property is cheap enough that there are so many second homes in some villages it's killing the whole essence of what people bought into, tourism booms is hit booms it's like a roller coaster, the future..... hopefully this new move will help stabilize us, put us back on the map, promote Cornwall.... and so much more....

I think it's essential we recommend others as in the long run those businesses will refer back, as we're talking about small businesses here, with small budgets, word of mouth is key to growth.

I run a small networking group in E Cornwall where we meet regularly at each others premises to better get to know each other and the businesses. It has helped so many get more sales it's amazing. It's like having your own team of marketers working for you.

So I would recommend my local B&B Keadeen in Golberdon, the florist in Callington Jane's Floral Designs, the local pub The Bulls Head, Odd Crocks vintage crockery hire, The Pixie House for hire, the local hall, Mother Mims Bake House, Clucks Corner Cakes, The Photographer, The travel agent, Community Creations gift shop, Kessenyans aromatheraphy, Bodyworx car body repairs, as you can see I could go on but we are diverse mix and that means more people are getting to know about the businesses on their doorstep and using them and referring them.

TY Ali from Callington