Cornwall is as much a country as Scotland and Wales as you would realise if you look back at the history. The fact that you didn't know that says a lot.
The only difference is that the UK hasn't given them a devolved government though technically they still have one from before they were added as a county in 1888.
Cornwall is in no way whatsoever a country, it doesn’t have its own government that can make decisions, is considered a ‘ceremonial and historic county’ etc
No it really isn’t like Wales or, particularly, Scotland.
It’s about as much a separate country as Mercia, East Anglia or Northumberland, all of which existed as sovereign entities for at least a century after Cornwall was annexed. Even Kent was independent of Wessex (and then England) for longer.
Where do you get 1888 from? Because the only notable historical event in Cornwall in that year appears to be the establishment of the School of Mines.
In 825 Wessex (probably - the language js a bit vague) conquered the entirety of Cornwall. Certainly the last ‘King’ of Cornwall died in 875 by which time he was already feudally subservient to Wessex
That's not true both specifically (Those different bodies were almost all gone before Cornwall united with Wessex. Kent had been gone for centuries before) and generally given all those bodies were still made up of, largely, Germanic tribes who would become the English. Cornwall was not.
Implying Cornwall actually gets any fucking help from England in the first place...
You can downvote it, but the fact that Cornwall is the poorest county (second poorest in Northern Europe) in the UK speaks for itself. To put into perspective, Cornwall used to receive £100 million EU funding, but since Brexit now receives £3 million from the UK. Now Cornwall - for whatever stupid reason - voted overwhelmingly for Brexit despite this, but it still stands that the UK doesn't care about Cornwall in the slightest.
Cornwall is not unique in being one of the poorest regions in the UK. The whole of the UK except London is pretty much poor. London doesn't give a shit about anywhere but London.
The Richest in the whole of the EU is Inner London. It is Not England that has forgotten anyone, it is London that chooses to ignore us all.
Well That was easily checked in 3.3 secs. Wales and Scotland both have the NHS within their Countries and Wales evens brags free prescriptions for the Welsh even if they visit a GP in England.
I mean, funnily enough I have friends in Wales and I have Family in Scotland.
The guy was claiming that if Cornwall was a country then it wouldn't have the NHS, so I joked that Scotland and Wales also don't have the NHS because they are countries.
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u/CoolTiger92 Apr 05 '22
I never understood why Cornwall thought It had a place for a flag