Re: Frightened to live in Cornwall?
- From: "Baroness Edwina Frogbucket" <edwinafrogbucket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:05:36 +0100
"Richard Johnson" <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:cJmdnXkiAcCCwSLbRVnyhAA@xxxxxxxxx
Dear All,
I am a journalist writing a feature for the Sunday Times magazine in
London, looking at the new separatism at work in Britain -- starting with
Cornwall (after the CNLA threats to Jamie Oliver and Rick Stein), and
working up to Wales and Scotland. Have any English users of this forum
felt any prejudice? Have you felt frightened to be English in Cornwall? Or
is the banter all good-natured?
If you don't want to reply to the forum, please email me through my
website -- www.rjsj.demon.co.uk
It's a subtle prejudice. Cornish folk go on about 'the locals' to the point
where if a crime's reported in the papers, someone will say "It couldn't
have been a local" - like all Cornish people are saints.
There's no work, no decent shops, the transport system's rubbish and
affordable housing is in crisis. Cornwall would sink without the 'emmets'
they so despise.
--
Baroness Edwina Frogbucket
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