AUOB Kernow (All Under One Banner Kernow) is a grassroots campaign movement, formed to act as a catalyst to promote greater discussion about the future of Cornwall. They will be holding a March for Cornwall in Truro, with musicians.
We want to invite you to join us on July 16th on the march. We will walk the streets of Truro, stopping part way to hear from Gray Lightfoot, on the cathedral steps.
There are so many issues that the people of Cornwall face, and we strongly believe that by joining together, we can all achieve our goals. Not only the need to preserve our culture, our language and our music, but a way of life that is quickly disappearing.
We have had enough and need change. In order to have greater autonomy to do this, we must push for an assembly, modelling it on the Scottish system.
• We would be able to take back control of housing, including the planning laws, therefore stop the over-development of Cornwall.
• We would be able to house the people of Cornwall in suitable homes and do away with putting families in B&Bs and Travelodges, and stop people being transported away from family and community support out of Cornwall.
• We would be able to put our own climate emergency plan in place that’s designed for Cornwall.
• We would be able to stop RAW SEWAGE from being released into our waters.
• We would be able to stop Cornwall from being used as a holiday park, but more so as a food resource.
• We would make Cornwall’s industries expand and ensured the money from them stayed in Cornwall.
• We would create meaningful jobs with pay that’s rightly deserved for the people of Cornwall.
• We would be able to put a cap on the number of holiday homes within communities.
• We would be able to tax all holiday homes and lets.
• We could negotiate our own fishing rights and market.
These are just a few of the things we would be able to achieve.
Please consider joining us on July 16th from 12 pm on Lemon Quay in Truro. If you wish to speak at the march, please let us know as soon as possible.
BE PART OF THE CHANGE - JOIN US!
#AUOBTruro
Elsewhere in Cornwall, continuing ineptitude, waste, incompetence, corporate developer-bias and wanton environmental vandalism by Cornwall Council planning/officers:
Marazion: www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/300-new-homes-could-built-7179371
Bodmin: https://cornishbirdblog.com/our-defenceless-monuments-the-threat-to-cornwalls-heritage/
Cubert: a rare victory but beware planning officers’ fickle and duplicitous scheming - they have plenty of precedent for shafting Cornish communities: www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/controversial-plans-build-30-homes-7176459
St. Keverne: Saturday, June 11 2022, 10am to 4pm another industry about to disappear from the face of the earth, for tourism. If you want to save the destruction of a historical Cornish workable quarry from more tourists, and roads from hemorrhaging with Range Rover discoveries, go and have your say: www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/20187543.bid-turn-dean-quarry-eco-holiday-lodges-cornwall/
Cadgwith: www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cadgwith-fishing-cove-lizard-sense-7142719
Newquay: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-61508090
Penzance: Many people will know the view as you come into Penzance looking towards the Abbey slip. This rear streetscape to New Street has remained unchanged for centuries. There is a planning application currently in to add a 2 storey extension the width of this historic cottage, with rendered walls and a glazed balcony.
Any additional comments on the planning app might just help save this historic view of traditional buildings that gives the Abbey Basin its identity.
Shocking all over Cornwall: www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/second-home-owners-rewarded-free-7134123
This petition too would help Cornwall fight both the greedy corporate developers, land agents and cornwall Council planners: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/611113
Given Cornwall’s status as the UK capital of Hepatitis and raw sewage infesting our water courses, bays and beaches, this little poem below may be appropriate here:
Turd by Sea
i went to take a drinky
so i nipped off to the sinky
the water came out stinky
so i tossed away me mug
the sink under inspection
had a bad case of infection
so for our own protection
we set fire to the plug
after this commotion
the pipes did burst right open
now my kitchen is an ocean
crabs and lobsters on the floor
as some pirates took me brother
rick stein moved into the cupboard
now i can’t afford me kitchen
as he’s air bnb’d me drawers
there’s a meanside
to the seaside
there is sewage
in the surf
some things brewing
the tides are pooing
human beings
make this place worse
while i clung on to me drying rack
dodging seagulls in attack
a turtle came and tapped my back
and grabbed me by the hand
as my oxygen decreases
we’re passing loads of pieces
of stinky human faeces
and at once i understand
with of all this ablution
and the tonnes of our pollution
he required a solution
as his neighbourhood was screwed
refusing my apology
the turtle quickly saw through me
i can’t change this alone you see
what is a man to do
there’s a meanside
to the seaside
there is sewage
in the surf
some things brewing
the tides are pooing
human beings
make this place worse
you don’t have to be a thinker
to see if we flush our stinkers
in the same place that we drinkers
then we’ll end up full of shit
there should be more commotion
bout the motions in our ocean
let’s stop giving a promotion
to these westminister tits
not content with shitting on the poor
the buggers want to shit on more
so now the bloody ocean floor
is covered in our crap
the turtle won’t take kindly
if i throw into the briney
the pompous, rich and slimy
mp’s, bankers and rich prats
there’s a meanside
to the seaside
there is sewage
in the surf
some things brewing
the tides are pooing
human beings
make this place worse
now some have got and some have not
society has lost the plot
the summers getting bloody hot
the coral reef is dead
the rich all choose to go to war
it only kills the coerced poor
the flag that they are fighting for
is only cloth and thread
the planet is on fire
the situations dire
but the only words i spy are
johnny depp and amber heard
let’s stop this silly bickering
and join together as we sing
a ditty that will surely bring
some realness to this world
there’s a meanside
to the seaside
there is sewage
in the surf
no where to live
no fucks to give
your worried kids
are bloody cursed
the working homeless
the scapegoat migrant
could this place get
any worse
incase you wondered
our days are numbered
our planet plundered
all for the purse
By Kev Mud