Monday 12 May 2008

Is contemplating its constitutional navel all that Mebyon Kernow is about?

In March I wrote:

'Although if anyone can show The St Ivean the last time MK had anything to say remotely touching the life of the man or woman on the Penzance omnibus, they will receive as a reward a lifetime's supply of pasties (fanciful constitutional proposals not allowed, but a real bread-and-butter issue like The St Ivean's recent suggestion for discounted fares for people living in Cornwall on income support, is certainly allowed)'.

On that occasion I was suggesting that MK's silence on the plight of migrant workers in West Cornwall was just one example of the party's failure to connect with the real concerns of real people in the county. It's a point also raised by the blogger mudhook who has remarked on the silence of MK and other nationalists on the effect of the abolition of the ten-pence tax band on the county's poor and, last week, on the estimated 8000 people in Cornwall who will struggle to afford prescription charges.

Is contemplating its constitutional navel all that MK and other Cornish nationalists are about?