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# The case for Cornwall
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/the-case-for-cornwall/
- Published: 2008-11-15T12:11:45.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:42:16.000Z
- Author: Tom Griffin
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:49

**Tom Griffin (London,** [**OK**](https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom)**):** The debate about Cornwall's constitutional status seems to have taken off over at Comment if Free, where Truro and St Austell MP [Matthew Taylor responds](http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/14/cornwall-independence-fair-funding?ref=opendemocracy.net) to [Peter Tatchell's call for self-rule](http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/10/cornwall?ref=opendemocracy.net):

[*Mebyon Kernow*](http://www.mebyonkernow.org/?ref=opendemocracy.net) *support in Cornwall isn't low because we have an unfair electoral system. The simple truth is that Cornwall is not full of people who want a separate parliament – nor, incidentally, did they want one in 1497\. In both cases what is wanted is a genuine recognition that poor rural communities such as ours have not had their problems taken seriously, let alone addressed, in decades. We don't need a separate parliament, we simply need genuine local autonomy over the things that matter locally rather than nationally, and fair funding to go with it.*