THANK YOU you for signing this petition. We already have over 1,000 signatures with more than six months to go. Please help spread the word today. If each of you who has signed can get just FOUR people to sign too, there will be enough signatures to have a full debate on the petition at Cornwall Council at any time even as we aim for a full 5% of the electorate.

ASK THE COUNCIL LEADER IN PERSON? Meanwhile more important news. Council leader Linda Taylor, thought to want to be the Mayor, is holding public meetings across Cornwall. These are an opportunity for you to ask her direct if she will allow the people of Cornwall to decide whether there should be a mayor. See dates attached. 

MAYOR REJECTED: The people of Bristol last week voted in a  referendum to remove the Mayor (59%). Surely the people of Cornwall should get the chance to have a say before we get one - rather than just have 44 councillors make the decision? 

A MILLION POUND MAYOR: The cost of the rejected Bristol Mayor office was over a million pounds a year there, with 11 dedicated staff. Cornwall is bigger than Bristol so costs here could well be higher. 

SECOND HOMES: One of the arguments used most by the small number of people arguing for a Mayor is that it would allow higher council tax on second homes. No longer! Government confirmed last week that all councils are to be allowed to to do this anyway. No need for a Mayor to get this power - Cornwall will get this power anyway now.

FUNDING FOR CORNWALL: The special post-Brexit funds pledged to Cornwall (around £100m a year) have not been delivered. Cornwall will get £43m a year for three years. So the argument that having a Mayor brings more money is already wrong - we know (mayor or no) that it's less not more special funding. Cornwall is to get less than half what it used to get. 

STREET STALLS: We want to help supporters set up town teams to get signatures for the petition using street stalls in town centres and at shopping venues eg supermarkets. Do you want to help? If you think you can be part of a team in your nearest town please get in touch with us.

DON'T MENTION THE 'M' WORD! The leader of Cornwall Council today claimed that the job will not have to be called Mayor. Perhaps she should check the legislation. It is very clear that this indeed a Mayor. No other name is mentioned. There is no amendment to the law planned to change this. So even if some prefer to avoid the word and hope we won't notice, legally it's definitely a MAYOR.

THANK YOU again for signing. Please do all you can to get at least four people to do the same! This is a big campaign and we have barely begun....