Cornwall petitions the Prime Minister

Enter "Cornwall" into the search box of the Downing Street E-Petitions website and you'll get a flavour of some of the concerns - serious and outlandish - currently exercising folk this side of the Tamar.

There is the petitioner who wanted the Prime Minister to ban all tourists from Devon and Cornwall in August (10 signatures). Another petitioner wanted the Prime Minister to rule that only pasties containing all Cornish indredients and made in Cornwall to be named "Cornish Pasties" (10 signatures). Another wanted to ensure the well-being of the Great White Shark (16 signatures). Several petitioners are objecting to unitary status.

Mebyon Kernow's leader Cllr Dick Cole has recently launched a petition asking the Prime Minister to reject the plan from unelected South West quangos to construct 68,700 new properties in Cornwall (currently 249 signatures). Anyone thinking of signing Cllr Cole's petition should first read the blogger mudhook's view on Cllr Cole's position.

So far, only six people have signed to increase wages in Cornwall and only five supported a petition to create more fairness in Cornwall's water rates by instuting [sic] a "water tax".