St Piran's Oratory Awarded Grant

St Piran's Oratory has been awarded grants to complete surveys which will allow the formulation of a plan to uncover the oratory to be excavated and viewed by the public.

Good news!

Silk Ties

Following on from the whole (not really) credit card fiasco at Lys Kernow, I just wanted to make a point that doesn't seem to have been raised.

For example - the silk ties thing.

My question is - why is someone 'tying' up their time ordering and admistering the purchase and then distribution of and collection of money for silk ties for councillors? No wonder we need cabinet support members - it's to deal with rubbish like this!

I had this discussion with a customer at my shop. He thought (as a Tory) that the ties would create a good image and that councillors representing Cornwall should present a good image.

Maybe this is a good point but then it should be policy to distribute ties free of charge to councillors and then isist that they are worn in certain circumstances. If the people of Cornwall thought this was a good idea then they would be supportive - but I can't see it myself.

As it is 100 ties have been ordered for 88 male councillors - there is no need for any councillor to buy one so how does this achieve a uniform, smart appearance for Cornwall Council?

There are probably many more examples of silly schemes like this that are taking up time and effort which should be being spent on solving the real problems that Cornwall faces.

The Triple Treacle Spaceman

More from Lawrence Molton :

Greetings again, glad you're sticking with me through this treacle trip to June 16th.

Let's introduce the amazing, multi-functional, shape-shifting, time-travelling TRIPLE TREACLE SPACEMAN.

A gentleman who already has a seat on Illogan Parish Council AND the seat for Illogan on Cornwall Council. The CONSERVATIVE candidate, chosen to patronise the people of Camborne.

With its usual obscene CONCEIT, the much-presuming, all-assuming party of the Westminster regime insults Cornwall again by judging us too thick to do sums and too benighted to see the approaching conflict of interests between Camborne South and Illogan.

Illogan and Camborne are generally good neighbours and have many shared needs. BOTH regard ANY share of innapropriate building developments as an unfair share.

With Westminster masters dictating that inappropriate building be inflicted on the area, where can a multi-seat Tory councillor's loyalty be placed. In Illogan's two seats or Camborne's one seat? Or in a TORY H.Q. in Westminster?

Let's not begrudge the £12,000 pa from Cornwall Council. A properly functioningCornwall Councillor puts 40 plus hours per week into the job - so the pay is approximate to the National Minimum Wage.

Parish and Town Councillors are not paid and find 10 - 20 hours per week sufficient for the task.

Are we expected not to notice that the Tory candidate is already occupied for up to 60 hours per week? We are expected not to ask what CAN he do for Camborne South with so little time and energy available.

Perhaps it's not surprising that the party of the right so cruelly over-burdens and exploits its lower-ranking servants.

The people of Camborne are too humane and civilised to join in such cruelty, I'm sure.

Thanks for the visit. Hope you can look in next time. We'll be looking to the LEFT where there's a disgraced minority-interest group trying to be a nuisance.

Keep Camborne FIRST in Cornwall.
Vote MK on polling day.

Lawrence

Free Treacle Tree

Latest in from Lawrence Molton - guest blogger :



A vote for me won't set you ...................................... FREE
Nor can it win you a .......................................... TREACLE TREE
A treacle tree - well, it just don't be
Though if it did, it wouldn't be free

(There would be a tax on it if nothing else!)

In many colours - red blue and green
TREACLE PROMISES now can be seen
That's red to dread, and blue obscene
Though dare we trample on righteous green?

(Can't there be attacks upon it? That's something else!)

So which TREACLE flavour first to savour?
Let's try a dollop of post- New Labour!

The ARROGANCE of these LOMBARDS' WOMBARDS of the disgraced previous regime. Now telling us of THEIR plans to defeat Government cuts. Though their BANKING BEGUILEMENT and BUDGET BUNGLING mined the base materials from which the EXCUSES for the JEDWARDMENT'S cuts were fabricated.

June 16th - Con-Demmed again?
or condemned again? (in red treacle)

Use your right - vote black and white

Thanks for looking in. SWEET to be with you. Glad you could STICK around.

Tomorrow's theme: "The Triple Treacle Spaceman" - Does he exist? Can he exist?

Cheers Lawrence

Introducing ......... Lawrence Molton

I have invited Lawrence Molton to supply a few blog posts for me.

Lawrence is the Mebyon Kernow candidate in the Camborne South Town Council by-election. He has some strongly held views and opinions and cares passionately about Cornwall.

In this first post Lawrence (in his own inimitable style) provides a bit of humour and sets the scene for his series of guest blogs.

He has chosen to update the Buddy Holly classic - 'Not Fade Away' and give it a Camborne South by-election twist .................

Electioneering campaign songs:

Some are morose;
Some are verbose;
Here's our song -
For those that are close!


I'd like to tell you how it oughta be
You should cast your vote for me
Vote MK on polling day
and make those Tories fade away

Your cross in the box must be real
So we can make New-Labour squeal
From the Greens we're under attck
Vote MK and drive 'em back

Vote MK on polling day
For ever Camborne, not fade away

With apologies to the late Mr Holly of Lubbock, Texas, The Stolen Roans, The Graceful Dread and everyone else who recorded Not Fade Away.

Remember:

The REDS are FADED
The GREENS are JADED
.... and we don't need to get TANGLED UP IN BLUE

Stay tuned to this blog - talk to you again soon,

Lawrence

More information on Lawrence's campaign

Incinerator - Idiomatic of Westminster Government

Eric Pickles has spoken. With a stroke of his pen he has consigned a democratic process, by which Cornwall had said no to the incinerator (now to be built in St Dennis) to the bin. So much for commitment to local people from Cornish Conservatives and so much for commitment to localism from national Conservatives.

Before the election David Cameron promised a ‘Minister for Cornwall’. As soon as the deal with the Liberal Democrats was done, Mr Cameron reneged on that promise - claiming that Cornwall had 6 MPs at the heart of government. All six Tory and Lib Dem Cornish MPs campaigned against the incinerator and yet Mr Pickles seems to have ignored their opinion as much as he has ignored the people of Cornwall – so much for a strong Cornish voice at the heart of Westminster!

In fact Mr Pickles appears to have given more importance to the perfidy shown by the Conservative Leader of Cornwall Council, Alec Robertson. Mr Robertson has previously voted against the incinerator project but then wrote a secret letter to his boss in Westminster, pleading for the findings of the Cornwall Council Planning Committee to be over-ruled. This is surely a betrayal on the same scale as that shown by the Liberal Democrats when they jettisoned their pre-election pledges for a taste of Westminster power.

Indeed this betrayal has led to Stephen Gilbert MP popping up on Radio Cornwall feigning indignation and anger at what has happened. The problem is, Mr Gilbert, it was your party that created the problem in the first place by creating the contract with SITA. I also find it extremely hard to believe anything you say given the way you go back on your pledges. Who can forget Mr Gilbert holding his pledge on tuition fees which was so dramatically discarded as soon as he took his seat in Westminster. In fact Mr Gilbert’s feigned anger on behalf of the people of St Dennis was very reminiscent of his speech back in October when he promised that his job was to vote against the government over Devonwall – just before he meekly went through the lobby and cast his vote to discard Cornwall’s ancient border in favour of joining Cornwall and Devon. Sorry Mr Gilbert, I can’t trust a word you say.

Perhaps the Labour Party can give us some strong leadership. Unfortunately not. Just as they were totally divided over the recent AV vote, the Labour party in Cornwall seem to be split on the incinerator issue. While Jude Robinson has come out firmly in favour of the incinerator other notable members of Labour in Cornwall have made it clear that they believe that the incinerator is bad for Cornwall.

The only party that has consistently argued against the incinerator project is Mebyon Kernow – The Party for Cornwall. Dick Cole has a wealth of experience and knowledge of this case and has acted in a statesmanlike manner throughout the whole process. It is clear that the only party that can always be trusted to put Cornwall first is Mebyon Kernow – The Party for Cornwall. Cllr Cole will continue to do all that he can to help the residents of St Dennis in their continued fight – just as MK will continue its fight to put Cornwall’s interests before those of Westminster.

Small and Underfunded Cornish Schools Face Closure

In December last year the coalition government announced that Cornish schools would receive less than half the funding than schools in the City of London. ‘Guaranteed Units of Funding’ (GUF) for Cornwall amounts to just £4663 per pupil while the figure for London is £9373.

At the same time, new legislation encourages schools to convert to ‘Academies’ and to opt out of funding by Local Authorities in favour of receiving centralised funding from Westminster.

Despite attempts by the Conservative leader to prevent it, Mebyon Kernow leader, Dick Cole, gained the support of Cornwall Council in calling for a commission to investigate fairer funding for Cornwall.

Coalition policies mean that the very nature of our smaller schools in Cornwall puts our children at an unfair disadvantage. This is because as well as being short-changed with their funding, the new academy system means that there is less money available to Cornish councillors to provide support for the smaller schools. There is a very real risk that many community based schools will be forced to close – children as young as five years old could be forced to make bus journeys just to get to school.

Cornwall needs politicians who understand Cornwall’s unique challenges and who are prepared to put Cornwall first.