As G7 gets in full swing with the cost and life implications starting to bite local residents hard as well as seriously impacting the natural and built environment of Cornwall, one resident poignantly observes:

“How did things get so crap?

The Ambulance Trust has told Cornish residents not to bother them unless they have a life threatening injury.

The Devon and Cornwall Police are focussed on stopping Cornish residents from using roads, footpaths, coastal paths, trains – and will demand ‘your papers’ if you happen to live inside the ‘ring of steel’.   Although I suppose we should be grateful for the face-to-face contact as even when G7 isn’t the topic of the day, very few Police Stations are now accessible to the public, its officers sitting instead behind a triage of 111 call centres.

Cornwall Council yesterday posted that the Fire Service was having issues getting down Cornish roads in an emergency, due to the volume of traffic parked in the street.  This same Council has a strategy restricting the provision of parking spaces at new build developments, stating cars should be parked instead on nearby streets ... doh.  So they have the sauce to lecture Cornwall’s residents about a problem the Council is helping to create.

I’d like to see Executives of the Ambulance Service and the Police shouting from the hill tops for better resourcing however bad that might be for the career trajectory.  And I’d actually like to see Cornwall Council thinking before it hectors its Tax Payers – but that’s an ambitious wish.

Unless CC uphold the ratio of affordable homes specified in their own policies and in local neighbourhood plans, then young adults are forced to live with their parents. Hence there may be 3,4, or 5 cars per household. Cornwall Council lecturing residents about high levels of parking in local streets is plainly daft if their failure to insist on affordable housing provisions is in part the cause of this.”