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“We don’t need yet another corrupt-tri-party-cabal MP for the Newquay/St Austell constituency – we need an honest and straight Cornish MP with insight, talent, experience, sincerity and determination. Mr Cole has proved his mettle, commitment, stamina, integrity and determination over many years. His heart is in Cornwall and devoted to doing the best for Cornwall and her people.

Mr Cole is the best candidate with the best credentials to best represent his people at Westminster.

Vote For Cornwall.

Vote Cole.”

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1. There will be a guarantee of equality before the law.

3. Local will actually mean local.

5. The secret policy of relocation will be abandoned.

7. All planning and housing decisions wil be decentralised.

9. The Duchy of Cornwall and cultural sites will be under Cornish Corntrol.

11. Sewage and waste recycling facilities will be established.

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Born in 1950,Craig Weatherhill is a longstanding author both of fiction and non-fiction works about Cornwall.

Raised in St Just in Penwith and then in Falmouth, after serving in the forces he developed a career in conservation and architecture.

In his younger days, Weatherhill was an outstanding goalkeeper, playing for clubs such as Falmouth Town and even Plymouth Argyle. He also played in goal for Cornwall at youth level. He played on for several years – his last match (for Pendeen Rovers) being at the age of 48 – despite extensive surgery to rebuild his lower spine following serious injury whilst serving with the Royal Air Force in 1972, from which he made an astonishing and determined recovery. He has been a keen horseman for most of his life, this passion continuing to this day.

He conducted extensive archaeological surveys of West Cornwall in particular under the tutelage of P.A.S. Pool, one of the outstanding modern Cornish historians. His reconstruction of West Cornwall courtyard houses in particular (drawings and artwork) is now the accepted form for these buildings. Weatherhill published the two standard works on Cornish prehistoric and early medieval archaeology: Belerion and Cornovia. A completely rewritten, full-colour and updated “Cornovia”, was published by Halsgrove of Wellington, Somerset, in April 2009.

His works of fiction include The Lyonesse Stone and Seat of Storms, with the third in the trilogy, “The Tinners’ Way”,  published last week.

In November 2009, ‘The Lyonesse Stone’ was published in Cornish by Evertype, with the title Jowal Lethesow – one of the longest novels to be translated into that language.

In December 2009 his novel Nautilus was published, 15 years in the making and a modern sequel to the Jules Verne classics Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas and The Mysterious Island, remaining faithful to the original works of Verne, despite its 21st-century setting.

You can browse Craig’s books using the sidebar widget on this page.

1. Royal World Status from Cornish Mining wealth

Adam Smith, in his world renowned standard text-book for economists, ‘The Wealth of Nations’ 1776, Chapter 11, Pt.2, explains:   “The tax of the King of Spain is said to be very ill paid, and that of the Duke of Cornwall very well.   Rent, therefore, makes a greater part of the price of tin at the tin mines of Cornwall the most fertile known in the world than it does of silver at the most fertile silver mines in the world”.   The Stannary mining system has been recognised as the foundation of Cornwall’s status as a UNESCO World Mining Heritage Site, however, the Duke of Cornwall refuses to acknowledge the constitutional history of the Duchy in its monopolisation of Cornish mining wealth.  This Duchy, capable of competing with Spain’s South American colonies in terms of the accumulation of wealth, is now claimed by the government to be a private estate.

There is an historical precedent for the administration of the Duchy of Cornwall as a separate country to provide an apprenticeship for Kingship in the case of Charles the First.  A former high ranking official of the Duchy has observed in respect of Charles the First as Duke of Cornwall:-   “The Prince may have become the victim of his own success, believing that he could govern the realm as he had the Duchy”. (The Estates of the English Crown 1558 – 1640, (Ed. R.W.Hoyle), Graham Haslam, Cambridge University 1992, p.296).   This  is an example of the “pretended power” abolished by the Bill of Rights 1688.   Such Duchy claims as “territorial possessions” and “the government of Cornwall” were made by the Duke in the Cornwall Foreshore dispute between the Duchy and the Crown 1854-58. Read the rest of this entry »