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Mebyon Kernow (Cornish
Cornish language

The Cornish language is one of the Brythonic group of Celtic languages. The language continued to function as a community language in parts of Cornwall until the late 18th century, and there have been attempts to revive the language since the early 20th century....
 for "Sons of Cornwall", often abbreviated MK) is a minor political party
Political party

A political party is a political organization that seeks to attain and maintain politics power within government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns....
 in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
. The main objective of MK is to establish greater autonomy in Cornwall
Cornwall

Cornwall , constitutional Duchy and palatine, is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain....
, through the establishment of a legislative Cornish Assembly
Cornish Assembly

The Cornish Assembly is a proposed devolution regional assembly for Cornwall in the United Kingdom along the lines of the Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales and Northern Ireland Assembly....
. On a national scale Mebyon Kernow have no members elected by the Cornish people to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, nor is the party present in the House of Lords
House of Lords

The House of Lords is the second house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is also commonly referred to as "the Lords". The Parliament comprises the British monarchy, the British House of Commons , and the Lords....
. Locally the party also have no elected county councillors since 2001, but do have a minority of district councillors active.






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Mebyon Kernow (Cornish
Cornish language

The Cornish language is one of the Brythonic group of Celtic languages. The language continued to function as a community language in parts of Cornwall until the late 18th century, and there have been attempts to revive the language since the early 20th century....
 for "Sons of Cornwall", often abbreviated MK) is a minor political party
Political party

A political party is a political organization that seeks to attain and maintain politics power within government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns....
 in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
. The main objective of MK is to establish greater autonomy in Cornwall
Cornwall

Cornwall , constitutional Duchy and palatine, is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain....
, through the establishment of a legislative Cornish Assembly
Cornish Assembly

The Cornish Assembly is a proposed devolution regional assembly for Cornwall in the United Kingdom along the lines of the Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales and Northern Ireland Assembly....
. On a national scale Mebyon Kernow have no members elected by the Cornish people to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, nor is the party present in the House of Lords
House of Lords

The House of Lords is the second house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is also commonly referred to as "the Lords". The Parliament comprises the British monarchy, the British House of Commons , and the Lords....
. Locally the party also have no elected county councillors since 2001, but do have a minority of district councillors active. The majority of the Cornish people instead support the Liberal Democrats
Liberal Democrats

The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems or just Lib Dem, are a Liberalism political party in the United Kingdom, formed in 1988 by merging the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party ; the two parties had been SDP-Liberal Alliance for seven years, from shortly after the formation of the SDP....
. The organisation claim to be civic nationalists rather than ethnic nationalists
Ethnic nationalism

Ethnic nationalism is a form of nationalism wherein the "nation" is defined in terms of ethnicity. Whatever specific ethnicity is involved, ethnic nationalism always includes some element of Kinship and descent from previous generations....
.

History

MK was founded on 6 January 1951 at a meeting held in Redruth
Redruth

Redruth is a town and civil parish in the Kerrier , Cornwall, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It lies approximately at the junction of the Great Britain road numbering scheme393 and A3047 roads, on the route of the old London to Land's End trunk road, the A30 road....
. Helena Charles
Helena Charles

Helena Charles , was a Cornish people humanitarian, cultural activist and poet.She was a member of Gorseth Kernow under the Bardic name of Maghteth Boudycca ....
 was elected the party's first chair. At the first meeting, MK adopted the following objectives:

  1. To study local conditions and attempt to remedy any that may be prejudicial to the best interests of Cornwall by the creation of public opinion or other means.
  2. To foster the Cornish Language
    Cornish language

    The Cornish language is one of the Brythonic group of Celtic languages. The language continued to function as a community language in parts of Cornwall until the late 18th century, and there have been attempts to revive the language since the early 20th century....
     and Literature.
  3. To encourage the study of Cornish history
    History of Cornwall

    The history of Cornwall begins with the pre-Roman inhabitants, including speakers of a Celtic language that would develop into Brythonic languages and Cornish language....
     from a Cornish
    Cornish people

    The Cornish people are regarded as an ethnic group of the United Kingdom originating in Cornwall. They are often described as a Modern Celts....
     point of view.
  4. By self knowledge to further the acceptance of the idea of the Celt
    Celt

    Celts , is a modern term used to describe any of the European peoples who spoke, or speak, a Celtic languages. The term is also used in a wider sense to describe the Modern Celts of those peoples, notably those who participate in a Celtic culture....
    ic character of Cornwall
    Cornwall

    Cornwall , constitutional Duchy and palatine, is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain....
    , one of the six Celtic nations
    Celtic nations

    Celtic nations are areas of modern northwest Europe which identify themselves with the Celtic cultures, specifically speakers of Celtic languages....
    .
  5. To publish pamphlets, broadsheets, articles and letters in the Press whenever possible, putting forward the foregoing aims.
  6. To arrange concerts and entertainments with a Cornish-Celtic flavour through which these aims can be further advanced.
  7. To cooperate with all societies concerned with preserving the character of Cornwall.


By September 1951 they had officially come to a stance of supporting self-government for Cornwall, in what they hoped at the time would be a federal United Kingdom. MK won its first seat at local level on the Redruth-Camborne Urban Council in 1953. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, MK was in essence a political pressure group rather than a true political party, with members being able to join other political parties as well. However, by the 1970s the group developed into a more coherent and unified organization. During this decade, MK began contesting Westminster
Westminster

Westminster is an area of Central London, within the City of Westminster. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames, southwest of the City of London and southwest of Charing Cross....
 parliamentary seats as well as local government ones. On 28 May 1975 Dr James Whetter
James Whetter

Dr James Whetter is a noted Cornish people historian and editor of The Cornish Banner , a Cornish journal. His books include The History of Glasney College Padstow: Tabb House, 1988; Cornwall in the Seventeenth Century Padstow: Lodenek Press, 1974; and The History of Falmouth, Cornwall Redruth: Dyllansow Truran, c1981....
 left MK to form the Cornish Nationalist Party
Cornish Nationalist Party

Disambiguation: the term "Cornish Nationalist Party" is sometimes used incorrectly for Mebyon Kernow"The 'Cornish Nationalist Party' , or Party Kenethlegek Kernow, was a political party led by Dr James Whetter campaigning for self-government for Cornwall that was formed by people who left Mebyon Kernow on 28 May 1975 ....
 which was campaigning for full Cornish independence
Cornish self-government movement

The Cornish self-government movement is a social movement which seeks greater autonomy for the area of Cornwall. The movement's advocates argue that Cornwall is not merely a county of England but a duchy and a distinctive nation which has never been formally incorporated into England via an Act of Union....
.

They currently describe their philosophy as based on being: "Cornish, Green, Left of Centre, Decentralist." Mebyon Kernow is a member of the European Free Alliance
European Free Alliance

The European Free Alliance is a European political party. It consists of various European political party which advocate either full political independence , or some form of devolution or self-government for their country or region....
 although it did not contest European Parliament elections in 2004
European Parliament election, 2004 (UK)

The European Parliament election, 2004 was the UK part of the European Parliament election, 2004. It was held on 10 June. It was the first European election to be held in the United Kingdom using postal-only voting in four areas....
 or 1999. The party has close links with Plaid Cymru
Plaid Cymru

Plaid Cymru is a political party in Wales. It advocates the establishment of an independent Welsh state within the European Union.Plaid Cymru was formed in 1925 and won its first seat in 1966....
 (their partner in the EFA) including a twinning arrangement with Plaid's Blaenau Gwent
Blaenau Gwent

Blaenau Gwent is a county borough and Blaenau Gwent in South Wales. It borders the subdivisions of Wales of Monmouthshire and Torfaen to the east, Caerphilly to the west and Powys to the north....
 branch, and to a lesser extent with the SNP
Scottish National Party

The Scottish National Party is a centre-left List of Scottish political parties which campaigns for Scottish independence. In the last few decades, the SNP has normally polled the second highest number of votes for a Scottish political parties in Scotland....
.

Daphne du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier

Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning Order of the British Empire was an English author and playwright. Many of her works have been adapted into films, including the novels Rebecca , which won the Best Picture Academy Award in 1941, Jamaica Inn , and her short stories The Birds and Don't Look Now....
, the well known novelist, was at one point a member of Mebyon Kernow, as was Andrew George, the Liberal Democrat
Liberal Democrats

The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems or just Lib Dem, are a Liberalism political party in the United Kingdom, formed in 1988 by merging the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party ; the two parties had been SDP-Liberal Alliance for seven years, from shortly after the formation of the SDP....
 MP; he still remains sympathetic to many Cornish issues, but is no longer a member since they became a political party.

MK have an electoral partnership with the Greens
Green Party of England and Wales

The Green Party of England and Wales is the principal Green politics political party in England and Wales. The party is unrepresented in the British House of Commons, but did have a life peer within the House of Lords until his death in April 2008....
. In the 2005 Westminster elections
United Kingdom general election, 2005

The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005 to elect members to the British House of Commons. The Labour Party under Tony Blair won its third consecutive victory, with a reduced Majority government of 66....
, MK did not contest the St Ives constituency to make room for the Green Party candidate. In return, the Greens did not stand against MK in any of the other four Cornish constituencies. MK has announced it will contest St Ives at the next general election.

MK support the inclusion of the Cornish into the FCPNM

In August 2008 MK deputy leader, Conan Jenkin, expressed Mebyon Kernow's support for a proposed legal challenge by Cornwall 2000
Cornwall 2000

Cornwall 2000 is a Cornish people civil liberty/human rights group based in Bodmin, Cornwall, United Kingdom. The group was formed by John Angarrack, a leading Cornish historian and Cornish human rights campaigner....
 over the UK Government's exclusion of the Cornish
Cornish people

The Cornish people are regarded as an ethnic group of the United Kingdom originating in Cornwall. They are often described as a Modern Celts....
 from the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities

In February 1995, 22 member States of the Council of Europe, signed the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities .The Council of Europe first discussed according specific protection for national minorites in 1949, but it was not until 1990 that the Council of Europe made a firm commitment to protect these minority gro...
. Cornwall 2000 need to show that they have exhausted all domestic legal avenues by having the case summarily dismissed by the High Court
High Court of Justice

The High Court of Justice is, together with the Crown Court and the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, part of the Courts of England and Wales ....
, the Appeal Court
Court of Appeal of England and Wales

The Court of Appeal of England and Wales is the second most senior court in the Courts of England and Wales, with only the Judicial functions of the House of Lords above it....
 and the House of Lords
House of Lords

The House of Lords is the second house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is also commonly referred to as "the Lords". The Parliament comprises the British monarchy, the British House of Commons , and the Lords....
, before the case can be put to the European Court of Human Rights
European Court of Human Rights

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg was established under the European Convention on Human Rights of 1950 to monitor compliance by Contracting Parties....
. Mebyon Kernow have requested the support of all of its members for this legal action.

Electoral performance

In 1979, in the first elections to the European Parliament
European Parliament

The European Parliament is the only direct election parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union , it forms the bicameral Institutions of the European Union#Legislature of the Institutions of the European Union and has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world....
, Mebyon Kernow's candidate Richard Jenkin
Richard Jenkin

Richard Garfield Jenkin , was a Cornish people politician who was involved with Cornish nationalism projects as one of the founder members of the Cornish political party Mebyon Kernow....
 was able to attract almost ten percent of the vote in the Cornwall seat. This reflected a decade of steady growth for the party. MK continues to contest parliamentary seats with little electoral success, and also local government seats with more success. They lost their only Cornwall county councillor in 2001.

The national electoral results of Mebyon Kernow in Cornwall are shown in the table below.

ElectionVotes castShare of Vote
1979 European election10,2055.9
1983 General election
United Kingdom general election, 1983

The 1983 UK general election was held on 9 June 1983. It gave the Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher the most decisive election victory since United Kingdom general election, 1945....
1,1511.22 candidates
1989 European election
European Parliament election, 1989 (UK)

The European Parliament Election, 1989 was the third European election to be held in the United Kingdom. It was held on 15 June. The electoral system was First Past the Post in England, Scotland and Wales and Single Transferable Vote in Northern Ireland....
4,2241.9
1994 European election
European Parliament election, 1994 (UK)

The European Parliament Election, 1994 was the fourth European election to be held in the United Kingdom. It was held on 9 June, though, as usual, the ballots were not counted until the evening of 12 June....
3,3151.5
1997 General election
United Kingdom general election, 1997

The UK general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997. The Labour Party won the general election in a landslide victory with 418 seats, the most seats the party has ever held....
1,9060.84 candidates
2001 General election
United Kingdom general election, 2001

The UK general election, 2001 was held on 7 June 2001 and was dubbed "the quiet landslide" by the media. There was little change at all - outside Northern Ireland - with 620 out of 641 seats remaining unchanged....
3,1991.33 candidates
2005 General election
United Kingdom general election, 2005

The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005 to elect members to the British House of Commons. The Labour Party under Tony Blair won its third consecutive victory, with a reduced Majority government of 66....
3,5521.74 candidates
(Source: )

The following table shows Mebyon Kernow's reprasentation within the county of cornwall, including cornish MP's and councillors, as of December 2008.

PartyMembers of ParliamentCounty CouncillorsDistrict Councillors
Liberal Democrats
Liberal Democrats

The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems or just Lib Dem, are a Liberalism political party in the United Kingdom, formed in 1988 by merging the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party ; the two parties had been SDP-Liberal Alliance for seven years, from shortly after the formation of the SDP....
54894
Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservative Party, is a conservative political party in the United Kingdom....
0967
Labour
Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the Left-wing politics in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently organised again....
054
Liberal
Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the rise of the Labour Party in the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which would become known as the Liberal Democrats....
011
Mebyon Kernow
Mebyon Kernow

Mebyon Kernow is a minor political party in the United Kingdom. The main objective of MK is to establish greater autonomy in Cornwall, through the establishment of a legislative Cornish Assembly....
009
UK Independence Party001
Independant01996*
* includes all 21 members of the Scilly Islands Council
Isles of Scilly

The Isles of Scilly form an archipelago off the southwestern tip of the Cornwall of Great Britain. Traditionally administered as part of the county of Cornwall, the islands are now a unitary authority and have their own council....
 unitary authority
Unitary authority

A unitary authority is a type of local authority that has a single tier and is responsible for all local government functions within its area or performs additional functions which elsewhere in the relevant country are usually performed by national government or a higher level of sub-national government....
 (Source )

Since 11 November 2004, there have been four MK councillors on Kerrier District Council, along with one in Restormel (the party leader Dick Cole
Dick Cole

Dick Cole is a councillor, and the leader of Mebyon Kernow, a Cornwall autonomist movement since the 1997. He lives in Fraddon, a village in Mid-Cornwall....
) and, until his death in 2005, John Bolitho
John Bolitho

John Bolitho was born in Bude in Cornwall, and spent his working life in the Royal Navy, the theatre and television , and business. He was the Grand Bard of the Gorseth Kernow between 2000-2003 with the bardic name of "Jowan an Cleth"....
 in North Cornwall. One of the MK councillors in Kerrier, Loveday Jenkin, joined the district council government in 2005 becoming the first MK councillor in such a position.

In May 2007 Mebyon Kernow achieved its best-ever round of election results in Cornwall’s district and town and parish councils. There were 225 district council seats up for election and MK put up 24 candidates. MK won seven district council seats, a net gain of one; seventeen town/city council seats and four parish council places, a nett gain of one town/parish seat. MK polled about 5 percent of the total votes cast in the district council elections. The seats won included their first seat on Caradon
Caradon

Caradon is a Non-metropolitan district in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It contains five towns, Callington, Cornwall, Liskeard, Looe, Saltash and Torpoint, and over 80 villages and hamlets within 41 civil parishes....
 Council for 24 years; defended their seat on North Cornwall
North Cornwall

North Cornwall is the largest of the six Non-metropolitan district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Its council is based in Wadebridge .Other towns in the district include Bude, Bodmin, Launceston, Cornwall, Padstow, and Camelford....
 District Council; three seats on Kerrier
Kerrier

Kerrier is a Non-metropolitan district in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is the most southerly district in the United Kingdom, other than the Isles of Scilly....
 District Council, where they lost one seat; and two on Restormel
Restormel

Restormel is a Borough status in the United Kingdom of Cornwall, United Kingdom, one of the six administrative divisions that make up the county....
 Borough Council. The results put Mebyon Kernow in third position behind the Liberal Democrats and the Conservative Party and ahead of Labour in several seats including Kerrier, Restormel, North Cornwall and Caradon. The total MK vote in the May 2007 local elections was over 10,000 votes across Cornwall. In June 2008 Mebyon Kernow's representation on Caradon increased to 3 following the defection of Glenn Renshaw (Saltash Essa) from the Lib Dems and Chris Thomas (Callington) from the Indepependent group, to join the party.

In the Town Council elections MK maintained groups of five councillors on both Camborne
Camborne

Camborne was once one of the richest mining areas in the world and is located in north Kerrier, Cornwall in the United Kingdom, forming the western end of the greater Camborne, Pool, Cornwall and Redruth conurbation....
 Town Council and Penzance
Penzance

Penzance is a town, civil parish, and port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, England, UK.Granted various Royal Charters from 1512 onwards and Incorporation in 1614, it has a population of 20,255 and is currently Penwith's principal town....
 Town Council, with three new councillors also elected to Truro
Truro

Truro is a City status in the United Kingdom in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, and is the centre for administration, leisure and retail in Cornwall, with a population of 20,920....
 City Council and is also represented on town councils in Callington, Liskeard
Liskeard

Liskeard , is an ancient Stannary town and market town at the head of the River Looe valley in the ancient hundred of Wivelshire in southeast Cornwall, England, United Kingdom....
 and Penryn
Penryn, Cornwall

Penryn is a town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom on the Penryn river. Although now the area is largely dominated by Falmouth, Cornwall, in the medieval period it was an important harbour in its own right, exporting granite and tin....
.

Several former Cornish MPs were also members of Mebyon Kernow, including Peter Bessell
Peter Bessell

Peter Joseph Bessell was a United Kingdom Liberal Party politician, and Member of Parliament for Bodmin in Cornwall from 1964 to 1970.At the United Kingdom general election, 1959, he was the Liberal candidate in the Bodmin , but lost to the sitting Conservative Party MP Douglas Marshall....
 (Liberal Party
Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the rise of the Labour Party in the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which would become known as the Liberal Democrats....
), John Pardoe
John Pardoe

John Pardoe is a retired United Kingdom businessman and Liberal Party politician.Educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, he was active in the famous Footlights Society; one critic of their 1955 revue panned future comedian Jonathan Miller whilst predicting a bold comedic future for Pardoe....
 (Liberal Party), David Mudd
David Mudd

William David Mudd , known as David Mudd, is a Great Britain politician.He was Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Falmouth and Camborne from 1970 until 1992, when he stood down....
 (Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservative Party, is a conservative political party in the United Kingdom....
), David Penhaligon
David Penhaligon

David Charles Penhaligon was a Politics of the United Kingdom from Cornwall who was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament from 1974 until his death....
 (Liberal Party) and currently Andrew George (Liberal Democrats
Liberal Democrats

The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems or just Lib Dem, are a Liberalism political party in the United Kingdom, formed in 1988 by merging the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party ; the two parties had been SDP-Liberal Alliance for seven years, from shortly after the formation of the SDP....
)

Stance on Regional Development Agency

Englandsouthwest
In July 2000 Mebyon Kernow issued the "Declaration for a Cornish Assembly
Cornish Assembly

The Cornish Assembly is a proposed devolution regional assembly for Cornwall in the United Kingdom along the lines of the Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales and Northern Ireland Assembly....
" claiming;

Three months later the Cornish Constitutional Convention was held with the objective of establishing a devolved Assembly. In less than two years, it had collected signatures from over 50,000 people, of whom 41 650 were resident in Cornwall, which is about 10 percent of the total Cornish electorate. A delegation led by the West Cornwall Liberal Democrat
Liberal Democrats

The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems or just Lib Dem, are a Liberalism political party in the United Kingdom, formed in 1988 by merging the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party ; the two parties had been SDP-Liberal Alliance for seven years, from shortly after the formation of the SDP....
 MP Andrew George and representatives of the Convention (Bert Biscoe, Richard Ford, Dick Cole
Dick Cole

Dick Cole is a councillor, and the leader of Mebyon Kernow, a Cornwall autonomist movement since the 1997. He lives in Fraddon, a village in Mid-Cornwall....
, David Fieldsend and Andrew Climo
Andrew Climo

Andrew Climo is an activist for Cornish devolution and the Cornish language....
) presented the declaration to 10 Downing Street
10 Downing Street

Number 10 Downing Street is the residence and office of the First Lord of the Treasury and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The headquarters of Her Majesty's Government, it is situated on Downing Street in the City of Westminster in London, England....
 on Wednesday 12 December 2001.

Cornwall is part of the South West Regional Assembly
Regional Assemblies in England

"Regional Assembly" is the name which has been adopted by the England bodies established as regional chambers under the Regional Development Agencies Act 1998 and of the elected London Assembly....
 and the South West Regional Development Agency administrate economic development, housing and strategic planning. The claim that the SW area covered is an artificially imposed large region and not natural. Mebyon Kernow wants to break up the SWRDA into small county areas and imploment a Cornish Regional Development Agency.

Leaders of Mebyon Kernow

  • 1951 Helena Charles
    Helena Charles

    Helena Charles , was a Cornish people humanitarian, cultural activist and poet.She was a member of Gorseth Kernow under the Bardic name of Maghteth Boudycca ....
  • 1959 Major Cecil Beer
  • 1970 Len Truran
  • 1973 Richard Jenkin
    Richard Jenkin

    Richard Garfield Jenkin , was a Cornish people politician who was involved with Cornish nationalism projects as one of the founder members of the Cornish political party Mebyon Kernow....
  • 1991 Loveday Jenkin
  • 1997 Dick Cole
    Dick Cole

    Dick Cole is a councillor, and the leader of Mebyon Kernow, a Cornwall autonomist movement since the 1997. He lives in Fraddon, a village in Mid-Cornwall....


See also

  • List of topics related to Cornwall
    List of topics related to Cornwall

    This is a list of topics related to Cornwall, United Kingdom. The :Category:Cornwall contains a more comprehensive selection of Cornish articles....
  • Regional Assemblies in England
    Regional Assemblies in England

    "Regional Assembly" is the name which has been adopted by the England bodies established as regional chambers under the Regional Development Agencies Act 1998 and of the elected London Assembly....
  • English Core Cities Group
    English Core Cities Group

    The English Core Cities Group is an association of eight large regional city in England:*Birmingham *Bristol *City of Leeds *Liverpool *Manchester ...
  • Constitutional status of Cornwall
    Constitutional status of Cornwall

    The constitutional status of Cornwall, in the southwest of the United Kingdom, is the subject of ongoing debate.The Parliament of the United Kingdom and Government of the United Kingdom, as well as local authorities and official agencies and some people in Cornwall, consider Cornwall to be an administrative and ceremonial counties of Engl...
  • Cornish Nationalist Party
    Cornish Nationalist Party

    Disambiguation: the term "Cornish Nationalist Party" is sometimes used incorrectly for Mebyon Kernow"The 'Cornish Nationalist Party' , or Party Kenethlegek Kernow, was a political party led by Dr James Whetter campaigning for self-government for Cornwall that was formed by people who left Mebyon Kernow on 28 May 1975 ....
    , an early splinter of MK (1975), often conflated with it.


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