“My self and my wife went through it 4 times including starting my own business working for manpower services a government agence to create work for the unemployed I give work to ten people teaching them to be potters but inflation was at 16%-18% per cent under the last conservative government and althrough we had a order to make the offical F.A. mug and a bank manager who had allowed us the money to expand to 3+times our size I pulled the plug and had to make all my staff redundent a very hard thing to do it seem to me that tories and being made redundent go together .when this government got elected in this was bound to happen.”

“Always the same when the tories get in, I have never known it any different, ten men after one mans job is and always has been their policy. I dread to think what kind of state we would be in if this lot were in when we first went into this global recession, other countries came to Gordon Brown for his advice, and were glad of it.”

“It is perhaps easy to forget that the present government is a coalition.

The Liberal Democrats assured everyone that they would "rein in" the worst excesses of the Tory Right.

Instead, we have Ian Duncan-Smith doing his utmost to make the already poor even poorer. the Health Bill is a farce, condemned by all health professionals, but supported by all but one Cornish M.P.'s . For shame!”

“My relative has worked his entire adult life. What saddens me is that he tells me that there are youngsters signing on in their mid 20's who have never worked. What hope is there for them? £60 a week! What a mess.”

“We are but pawns in life's game, do well in school and you will get on in the world, so they say, some of these youngsters are of the attitude, "take your job and shove it". Who are we to say they are wrong.

http://tinyurl.com/7rzq734”

“That last film link shows unemployed teachers. For Heaven's sake, what sort of society has unemployed teachers when the education of children represents an investment in the future? These politicians heads should hang in shame!”

“Unemployment is a scourge which has been proven difficult to eradicate, and causes dreadful desolation and often financial destitution for those who experience it; particularly at a young age.
Have we so easily forgotten why we have found ourselves in the current desperate financial climate?
First, in 2008, there was the 'credit crunch', which started when the housing bubble in America burst. The debts it gererated were so high it rapidly caused the global banking crisis and in turn exposed the massive level of debt accumulated by our last Labour Government. No sooner did the current coalition get into office and begin to tackle the deficit when the Euro Crisis took hold - and is going to continue into the future.
Take a look at the most recent unemployment figures released in Europe in the past few days, and you will see we in the UK may be in difficulties but are managing to keep our heads above water better than most: Germany (6.5%), Denmark (8.2%), UK (8.7%), France (9.5%), Belgium (??), Italy & Ireland, (15%), Portugal (17%+), Spain (20%) and Greece (25%+).
You may think from those figures the powerhouse of Europe, Germany, is doing well. Not so, only last week when I was in Belgium & Germany I was able to discuss the data at first hand - the following emerged:
The German affluent & industrial heartlands have unemployment levels below 3%, but on the periphery there are many areas which are experiencing levels worse than those of the old East Germany! It was described to me as being, 'like experiencing hypothermia, where blood is withdrawn from the extremities to keep the centre alive'! If the Euro were to fail, then Germany would fail with it!
youngcornwall. I wonder if Mr Brown advised Spain, Portugal or Greece??”

“Unemployment is a whole bunch of statistics used by my politicians, the masses and the media and so on, to show how bad our lives are, what utter rubbish. You can't have 100% employment! But there is always opportunity it all situations! It was like this in the 50's 60's 70's 80's etc and it is not going to change.”

“If unemployment can not be altered in Cornwall.Then wat was the point of object one funding.The fact is as long as we are under the control and influence of here in the south west little Englanders ,And Unionist Westminster parties.Any amount of funding and investment will get lost in the vast coffers of Greater England.The best that Cornwall can do is to follow .The example of Scotland in to Independence and stand on our own two feet.The fact is,We could not be worst off.And the over all picture is that the government of these islands is about to change. In to a far less centalise condition”

“""The best that Cornwall can do is to follow .The example of Scotland in to Independence"

Interesting how Alex Salmond a fellow Celt is happy to drop the Welsh and never give a hoot about the Cornish, you'd follow him? Good luck!"”

“The SNP supports the right of both the Cornish and Welsh to self determination. They sent Kenneth Gibson MSP as their representative to the 2011 Mebyon Kernow conference. At the conference Gibson and the Plaid Cymru MP Jonathan Edwards reasserted their parties support for the creation of a Cornish Assembly. The SNP in Westminster have supported Plaid Cymru's Early Day Motion to mark the 10th anniversary of the 50,000 signature petition for a Cornish Assembly.

What a difference there would have been if, over the past decade, Cornwall had been able to spend its own money and Objective One fund based upon local knowledge and needs. That's what we would have had under a democraticaly elected National Assembly of Cornwall, and we would have all been better for it. Cornwall would have been in a much stronger position to weather the current financial crisis. We would have seen a much better employment market, with higher paid jobs, and in the right areas of the economy, rather than the low paid jobs in the service sector that we are currently lumped with.

To quote Kenneth Gibson MSP:
"... a better deal for Cornwall, a better deal for the people in this nation, to be proud of its identity... because Cornwall is different."”

“That comment "little Englanders" is racist and is showing your bigotry towards English people. I ask you not to post such comments please, I am not someone who support this type of wording.

However Alex Salmond has shown little in the way of making life better the Scottish people and if you believe the poles more English people want rid of Scotland the the Scots themselves, which with all his complaining noisily and persistently has just cause to set one lot of people against another and all this with a very flawed fiscal plan which is based on using a currency which Scotland will never control! Great.

As for Wales and the County of Cornwall comeback after reading this:

http://tinyurl.com/6pgxs89”

“newtoyou. I agree entirely with your comment about 'little Englanders', which is rather childish to say the very least. Alan Sanders has the right to disagree with others, but does not have the right to insult them - particularly as some of those who may hold different opinions are Cornishmen themselves
It is clear from the comments made by Alan Sanders (if they can be fully understood) that without the support of the Welsh & Scottish Nationalists the Cornish nationalists themselves would receive minimum support. Also, one has to ask why a Welsh MP would attempt to present an Early Day Motion on behalf of the Cornish, when the Welsh Nationalists themselves are not achieving anything of substance? In reality of course the Early Day Motion will not see the light of day, and the Welsh MP only did so to boost his own declining ratings. As for the 50,000 signature petition - who signed it? I have always assumed it to have been 'one and all' - from anywhere in the EU that is.
Finally, Cornwall is not a Nation, it is a county within England. It is however special, as it is the county of my birth, and I don't need a nationalist to tell me that!”