Cornwall should have a devolved Assembly/Parliament

My source for the Prince of Wales bit is also, it happens, Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org...(territorial_duchy) Which part of Wikipedia was yours? lol. " Ideally, Cornwall would be independent. However, it is too small and too close to the United Kingdom for this to be feasibly, in the near future at least. But it should have greater legislative independence than, say, neighboring Devon, because it is made up of people many of whom were never English, only ruled by the English." Again, this is irrelevant, and smacks of racism or a subset of the same category. :D "You seem to have trouble believing that the Cornish really resent the English in any way, and whether they are still a separate people after the loss of their language." I have no trouble at all believing the resentment. If you tell me the Cornish are racist, I'll accept it for the sake of the debate. It does not, however, grant them a LICENSE for such racism :D. As for being a separate "people," this is nonsense. There are no separate "peoples," only separate individuals, in the age of globalization. As far as involuntary collectives are concerned, by all relevant measures there is really only one, humanity as such. "Any place in the Anglo-Saxon dominion where you can grow subtropical palms outside easily is alone, I think, worthy of special consideration." How does climate relate to how a place should be governed? " Consider the United States system. I believe that the states have fairly considerable power, yet they are subordinate, if not constitutionally then in practice, to the federal government." And the existence of such state power leads us to such reductions of liberty as health care mandates, gun control laws, and such, that would never get passed so easily nationally as they frequently do in certain states. "Look, I ask you, at Ireland. Certainly its economic explosion in the past half-century would be far less of anything had Ireland still been paying taxes to the Crown. Ireland is, also, one of the freest nations on Earth." Assuming for a second we can describe a country in which people are required to pay for "universal health care" not only through taxes, but then again when they walk in, when those who don't pay the taxes also don't pay the fees, i.e. essentially a country in which the people who are forced to pay get less quality health care in the end than the people who don't pay anything, can be described as one of the "freest nations on earth" (http://www.esri.ie...), which may, sadly, be an accurate description due to lack of competition, this is still only ONE example, not a statistically significant sample. And it is balanced by the fact that since it's independence, the UK has become less free, since it didn't have to deal with the apparently somewhat more freedom hungry Ireland. Remember, I described a TENDENCY for smaller jurisdictions to get away with more oppression- not an absolute, and there are other variables, but none of them appear to be active in Cornwall. For example, unlike Ireland prior to it's independence, I don't see Cornwall full of people stirring up armies, militias, terrorist organizations, and whatnot, to throw off what they perceive as an oppressor (there is no Cornish Republican Army). Thus, the signs are not there that Cornwall is another Ireland.