FXU Students' Union Hustings

The Falmouth and Exeter Students' Union have organised a hustings type event for Friday May 23rd. It will take place at the Penryn Campus from 4:00pm.

This will be an opportunity for all of the Truro and Falmouth PPCs to talk with students and listen to their concerns.

More details will be available soon - but please pencil the event in your diary if you think you might want to see what issues are important as the general election campaign properly gets underway.

Mr Wilkins resigns

Statement on the Resignation of Mr Terry Wilkins

 

I am saddened that a person in whom the people of Illogan had placed their trust behaved so badly.

However, I am pleased that Mr Wilkins has now resigned and we can begin the process of choosing someone as quickly as possible to represent Illogan in these challenging times.

On a personal level I thought long and hard about exposing Mr Wilkins conduct. It was not a decision that I took lightly and it would have been very easy to do nothing when the information came into my possession .

I feel vindicated that I have had the courage to make a stand when I perceived that an injustice was being done.

Congratulations to Cornish folk everywhere!

Well done to my Cornish friends everywhere!

You have finally been awarded the recognition that you all already knew that you deserved through inclusion by the UK government in the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities.

Congratulations also to the team effort of Cornish campaigners everywhere over many years.

The effort to give Cornish people officical recognition has been a team effort with many and varied contributions - a team that Mebyon Kernow has been proud to be a member of.

Special mention might be made of John Angarrack who campaigned tirelessly for recognition for many years. Also to Ian Saltern who has written two reports on behalf of Cornwall Council which has enjoyed cross party support in their representations to Westminster. Also the Celtic Kernow Branch which has picked up the baton more recently in organising a campaign of writing letters to MPs.

Thank you to the Liberal Democrats. There are many genuine supporters of the Cornish cause amongst their ranks - it is just a pity that, instead of celebrating a team effort victory, their press releases and some individuals seem to want to turn this victory into a party political point scoring exercise.

Questions will now have to be asked of UKIP. Many local members of UKIP seem to disparage the decision to recognise the Cornish although one UKIP MEP gives his full support. As usual with UKIP - no comprehensive or cohesive message. it is impossible to tell what is the official partl line and what is the usual rogue member nonsense.

Questions will also have to be asked of local MP Sarah Newton. Even very recently she was campaigning hard against Cornish recognition. You would have thought that her bosses in Westminster would have let her know which way the wind was blowing before she was so categorically scathing of the idea - so much for our Cornis MPs being 'at the heart of government'.

Illogan residents demand the resignation of Cllr Terry Wilkins

A group of concerned residents has contacted me this morning. They are apalled at the actions of local councillor Terry Wilkins in using his public office to lie to the people of Illogan.

They are currently collecting signatures door to door in Illogan and inform me that they have collected 50 signaures in a couple of hours so far.

They have asked me to set up an online petition to see if there is wider support for their call for Terry Wilkins to resign.

You can sign the petition here if you agree with them.

Update: 163 signatures collected from Illogan residents in less than 24 hours plus more online from across Cornwall.

Green Feedback on our Consultation Document

Many thanks to Steve Haynes - Membership Officer of the Mid and East Cornwall Green Party for the latest feedback on our consultation document "Towards a National Assembly of Cornwall".

You can find his views here.

I am particularly pleased that Steve has recognised the 'golden thread' that we sought to use to bind our thoughts - democracy.

I would like to wish the Green Party well in the Euro elections.

Trevithick Day

Another successful National Assembly campaign roadshow completed! This time at Trevithick Day, Camborne.

Close on another 300 signatures added - thanks particularly to some sterling work by Cllr Alan Sanders.

Lots of tallk about natonal minority status and lots of resolve to take the next step forward towards a National Assembly.

Many thanks to all of our activists who made a sterling effort in unkind weather and to the people making new declarations in support of an Assembly.

Cllr Terry Wilkins : "I am completely innocent."

Cllr Terry Wilkins believes that he is "completely innocent".

He has apparently received phone calls of support from all areas of the council chamber and all political parties.

I have called on Cllr Wilkins to resign.

As I said in my open letter I don't believe that using his public office to deliberately lie to a public authority and the people of Illogan in order to 'play a game and embarrass an unknown person' is something that any Councillor of integrity would do.

If using his office as a cornwall Councillor to deliberately lie is 'completely innocent' then pigs may book a take off slot at Newquay airport very soon.

I would like to hear from any 'area of the council chamber' and from any representative of any political party that does indeed agree that Cllr Wilkins is innocent.

That would be revealing.