Graham Smith
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Founder of Cornwall Reports: https://t.co/YdXaigtRGN Annual subscription £40 or pay-as-you go for 40 pence/day
Cornwall, UK
Joined March 2014
Oh! Jeremy Corbyn enters stage Left and adds to poll gloom for Labour Party in Cornwall
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By Julia Penhaligon Labour would lose all four of its Members of Parliament in Cornwall if a general election were to be held now, according to the latest opinion poll. The More In Common survey has...
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Cornwall chamber of commerce asks: “is council’s ‘fifth nation’ bid just a distraction?”
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By Graham Smith Businesses in Cornwall are being invited to have their say about County Hall’s bid to put itself at the head of government in its “fifth nation” campaign. Councillors voted 69%-29% on...
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RT @NicholasGuyatt: Hard to think of one image which captures the cowardice, authoritarianism and banality of the Starmer regime, but I thi….
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Cornwall Council heading for £100 million budget black hole by 2028
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By Julia Penhaligon Next week’s meeting of Cornwall Council’s cabinet will be introduced with leader Leigh Frost’s “high-level priorities” - an eagerly-awaited announcement which might offer some...
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Cornwall is the UK’s fifth nation (continued page 94)
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By Julia Penhaligon Yesterday’s (Tuesday’s) 69%-29% vote by Cornwall councillors to declare themselves Assembly Members of the UK’s fifth nation was far from the first time they have sought to break...
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Council relaunches its “stand up for Cornwall” campaign to resist government’s devolution proposals
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By Graham Smith What is “real” devolution? Cornwall councillors are again debating the devolution question - being asked to “stand up for Cornwall” - but none so far has any answer. To some, it...
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Media production and bamboo socks: is this the future for Cornwall’s farms?
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By Julia Penhaligon County Hall officials have offered their first thoughts about plans to use Cornwall’s 10,000-acre farms’ estate as a resource to finance their development ambitions. A scrutiny...
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County Hall flag policy: it’s business as usual, says council
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By Graham Smith Cornwall Council chairman Rob Nolan has declined an invitation to democratise and formalise decisions about which flags can be flown from County Hall flag-poles. In 2022 the then...
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RT @TStandfield1789: Put this man in charge of the new water regulator. @SteveReedMP @Keir_Starmer @Feargal_Sharkey
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Cornwall Council meeting gets off to a flying start as security deals with hecklers in the public gallery. Webcast suspended in case the public sees what's happening.
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RT @chrismullinexmp: A policeman took a full swipe at my head': Lesley Boulton at . . Orgreave: I published this….
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RT @domdyer70: This man is talking truth to power far more effectively then any politician in Britain today thank heaven we have Feargal Sh….
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Today’s 12-year-olds will be able to vote in the next general election. Cornwall will hardly notice
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By Julia Penhaligon Lowering the voting age to 16 is unlikely, on its own, to change the outcome of Parliamentary elections in Cornwall, according to research from the Office for National Statistics....
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After police arrest peaceful protestors on cathedral steps, will any of Cornwall’s MPs be a “terrorist” on 9th August?
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By Graham Smith Cornwall’s MPs are watching nervously as freedom of speech campaigners prepare a legal challenge to a new law which has the potential to label thousands of local people as terrorists....
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