Thursday, May 1, 2014

The FT calls it the "disUniting Kingdom." Cornwall heads for the exits.

Cornish nationalists (both of them), who argue that Cornwall has never legally been a part of the UK, are making progress: the EU will be giving them protected national minority status, like the Welsh and the Scots.  

This follows logically from the designation in 2011 of the Cornish Pasty as a “Protected Geographic Indication” by the EU. (Although in my opinion the pasties one buys in Cornwall are even worse than the pseudo-Cornish ones in London.)  This is reminiscent of how the growing popularity of putine in the 1960s anticipated the rise of Quebec separatism.  

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