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Old 02-05-2008, 02:32 AM   #45 (permalink)
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The nationalist feeling is popular and clearly not a minority it is just not intense.
Are most people bothered about being part of England? No, not in my experience.

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Nationalism doesn't have to be anti-English
It invariably is. I wonder how many people - esp. Scots and Welsh - jump on the autonomy for Cornwall bandwagon just to 'get back' at England.

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and this is the problem you people have, your feelings come from some emotional appeal to a glorious England and you seem to take autonomy for Cornwall as a threat to that.
Sure, I believe in England, but more importantly than that I consider myself a Westcountryman, and I consider Cornwall to be part of the Westcounty.
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