So When Will The Rest Of Us Get Our Rights?

[youngmafbog]

http://news.sky.com/story/1248389/cornish-get-minority-rights-and-protections

This is bordering on ridiculous, especially when coupled with the 120K to teach the Cornish language.

I thought we had people starving in the country and relying on food banks. clearly this cannot be the case if money can be lavished like this.

[scooping]

Up along, down along, all along is from Widecombe Fair. It's in Devon, not Cornwall.

[emmie]

NJ, blow ins used by the Cornish, many of their young folk had same problems as ours, once the properties were being bought up for these second homes, they had no chance because it sky rocketed the property prices.

i spent quite a lot of time down in Cornwall, some of the time with friends, and then the o/h, got to know the lie of the land so to speak
i know about mass tourism, and yes you are right, the economy in Cornwall would fall through the floor without them, but it's a double edged sword, as you must agree. That the more people you get, the more that will come, word of mouth for one thing, tell your friends how great it all is, the programmes that featured Cornwall, not just the latest Doc Martin but before that. Tin Mining was one of their biggest exports, however that has since more or less gone, fishing, not quite gone, but hanging on in parts.

[emmie]

we did a fair bit of walking, there is or was a very well beaten track from Fowey to Polruan, it takes a while but the views once you get to the top are spectacular. The place i was thinking was on the quay at Polruan, so it might have been the Lugger, its been a while since i was there.

[Graham-W]

Shouldn't be hard to Frack Cornwall off and drag it to Northern France. See how many euros they get then to teach Cornish.

[emmie]

long way to drag it to Northern France, sure that there is somewhere closer. x

[solvitquick]

emmie,
Ty for info re: (non-coastal?) walking path in Cornwall, Fowey to Polruan. It's the non-walking paths inland that I don't like about Cornwall.
As a non-golfer myself (seems pointless to me), I wonder why there are not farming conglomerates who could get together and build golf courses plus associated hotels and linked-minibus services to various parts as well as the golf course. It's a growing industry and in-line with health advice.
Alternatively, off-the top-of-my-head, an inland Hotel linked to an a leisure playground or a complete Holiday Camp (still needed by parents with children).
Despite my earlier post which was negative, I basicallly love Cornwall but am very very frustrated by the absence of internal initiatives.
The future of Cornwall surely does not lie in animal-farming unless it wants to stand still or even go backwards to bankruptcy. That's the tin-mining approach - lack of vision and contingency planning for the future.
Maybe our pittance of money towards linguistics would be better spent on a joint Cornish/Govt/Industry Think-Tank dealing with the Future Not The Past.
Regards,
SIQ.

[emmie]

tourism is their biggest industry, if you start destroying land with endless golf courses, how is that going to benefit the people of Cornwall, and won't that spoil landscapes used by walkers, day trippers, those on holiday,

[emmie]

i did this walk any number of times, with friends, and the o/h, lovely places, and the view from up the top was worth the hike

http://www.southwestcoastpath.com/walksdb/46/

[solvitquick]

Dear emmie,
Ty for your answers, very valuable.
To cut a long story short, what is Cornwall's economic future in your eyes?
The golf course idea was just a brain-storming idea hoping to stimulate such brain-storming which I believe can yield valuable dividends throughout the U.K.
The tourism is and will be crucial but that's a seasonal industry.
You may place all your chips on tourism and farming but I know of no area of the U.K. where these are all that is on offer.
O.K. your chips are on the table, spin the wheel:).
With Very Kindest Regards,
SIQ.

[emmie]

its pretty much their biggest industry, and its not just the summer months,
fishing is still part of their tradition, i know that isn't going to keep their economy going for ever, but not sure that large scale golf courses will be a good thing, the reason people love Cornwall is the landscape, the coastal and non coastal walks, its history, and when the weather is good there is no better place to be,
DT who lives in Cornwall maybe able to shed some light on its other industries, or how it can improve upon, perhaps IT jobs, light industry, big problem if the rail links aren't adequate, and getting around usually required a car.

[emmie]

if they were to start losing their tourist business that would be a major problem,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Cornwall