Five (5) years on and it is glaringly obvious that this motley collection of assorted muppets have singularly failed to deliver much of any benefit to ordinary Cornish people.

Councillor Pollard has retreated into obscurity having, along with his wingman Councillor Coad, visited chaos in the form of flooding and increasing congestion on Hayle via their unfettered growth agenda.

The obsequious self important, Mr Pomfret, who projected himself as some kind of dynamic messiah sent to saaave us all (glory be to the highest) has slithered away.

Councillor Paynter, the Lib Dem muscle man, and his unholy alliance with Koncrete Kate, the Kremlin supremo, has thankfully come badly unstuck, following an unseemly highly unsavoury spat with Councillor Tudor over 'emailgate'.

Full marks to the combative Councillor Tudor for wiping the floor with a very slippery customer.

Now in 2021 it is election time, as controversy rages over the G7 circus about to descend on Carbis Bay, where unlike that jolly old song about a Sunday school tea treat outing, all is very decidedly not Gay in Carbis Bay, following blatant environmental vandalism and the projected arrival of 5,500 of plod’s finest to enforce law and order during the event.

Then there are the dozens of shiny new 'Bertie' (Biscoe) buses running around empty, the excuse being that Covid is to blame however those who observe such matters know full well that they were also empty before Covid appeared as a scapegoat, perhaps an FOI request would not go amiss to uncover the truth. Which officer is pulling poor Bert’s strings? Perhaps Kalamity Kate once again.

One could go on but they are yesterday’s men and women who hopefully will stay in the past where they belong.

PLEASE USE YOUR VOTE WISELY, so the new bunch can send Kate Kennally and Phil Mason into the dungeon of historic failure, following their years of dismantling Cornwall for personal gain by a few shady (usually non-Cornish) characters.

As one commentator noted:

“I don't often get out of Par, or St Austell these days due to work and cottage renovations but Yesterday I had to go back over to St Merryn (via Newquay) I lived on the North Coast for a large proportion of my life so know it well, and would loved to have stayed there but Cornish wages and wanting to own a house don't really allow that !! anyways, it shocked me what had happened in the 2 Years since I had last been, the coast road from Newquay to St Merryn had changed!!  New glass and chrome homes everywhere, old cottages gone and replaced with 3 awful 2nd home type places!!  even as I drove up the new road in St Austell and marvelled at the gorse flowering, as soon as I hit the Penwithick area all I saw was devastation caused by bulldozers ripping up the moors !!! And the last old cottage left standing in this destruction has been pulled down, I think this is to build the 'eco' village, where will it end??”

Meanwhile in Bodmin, thanks for your assistance Cornwall Council:

“Halgavor Moor and Protected Otters will be destroyed if Cornwall Council Approve the Bd-UE2 Wainhomes Development for a total of 770 dwellings from the Lostwithiel Road up to Halgavor Road, adjacent to and bordering the Halgavor Stream.  Wainhomes also has a £400 thousand Option on land on the West side (Beacon side) of Halgavor Road as an extension to the 'Halgavor Urban Extension'.  Please see below more proof of the abundance of the Otter all along the Stream, a tributary of the River Camel SAC:

Found injured, taken to Harleigh Vets then handed to RSPCA for releasing. Radio Cornwall afternoons with Julie Scantlebury 24/03/21 and the article on otter is 2hrs 9 mins into the show, available on bbc sounds. They said the otter had been kicked out of a group so that’s good news.”

Or as another summarised about the past two decades:

“Modern Cornwall...

it feels like we’re at war!

Enemy spotted yet?!! Lol

What Cornwall councillors have allowed to happen and officers have positively encouraged, is absolutely criminal and has spelt the sad end of an era.

Not a pleasant “transition”:

From community to urban sprawl.

From homogenous (that’s how healthy and successful communities all start off!) to free for all.

From fair, close and just (generally, if you exclude Charles Windsor, Lord Falmouth and the other local parasites), to “modern” me, me, me, rich vs poor.

From rural to overcrowded, noisy and polluted.

From traditional mining, farming and fishing, to office, tourism and hospitality, i.e. crap work for crap wages, with little pride, permanence, loyalty or sense of real community achievement.

From pub and social clubs to dinner party and wine bars.

From local dialect (and even remnants of language) to Thames valley & northern.

From affordable local granit and stone (for long term) to unaffordable imported brick (for short term, e.g. Nansledan; thanks Prince Charles!).

From Cornish pride to division, finger-pointing and rancour.

From thriving, busy, productive and close-knit fishing communities to expensive ghost villages.

From rugby to football!

Yes, some of these changes have happened elsewhere and are a general sign of the times (I see a lot of people down here from elsewhere who do nothing but complain about the changes elsewhere; rather ironic, then!), but the speed with which they’ve decimated Cornwall’s natural social and environmental fabric is really tragic, was partly avoidable and has all but finished off Cornwall as a unique, legally, constitutionally and separate Duchy, with an incredibly strong sense of place, identity and pride.

Those heartless, self-serving and ambitious autocrats at Kremlin Kernow have either no idea what any of that means, or have deliberately tried to change the status quo due to their perceptions of the Cornish as backward straw-sucking peasants.

Incredibly sad and tragic.

If, when you read this, any part of it offends you, get a life, get a thicker skin and get a grip.

If you simply disagree with some or all of it, then that’s fine, we just have different opinions and different perceptions.”