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Could Cornwall Leave the UK & Get Independence? – TLDR UK
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With Scotland and Northern Ireland more seriously discussing leaving the UK, we thought we’d turn to another more ‘separatist-friendly’ part of the union… Cornwall. In this video we’ll discuss why some want out and if that’s actually possible.
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In this video we explore Burnham’s promise to implement a more representative electoral system in the UK but will he actually succeed where countless other governments have failed – and actually change the voting system?
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History of Electoral Reform
Idox Group Electoral Reform: A Never Ending Story?
https://www.idoxgroup.com/insights/electoral-reform-a-never-ending-story/
BBC News Opposing Voting Reform ‘Selfish’ and ‘Immoral’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41775307
UK in a Changing Europe Electoral Reform: the State of Debate and Future Prospects
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/electoral-reform-the-state-of-debate-and-future-prospects/
Make Votes Matter 2024 Was Our Least Representative Election Ever
News Articles
Electoral Reform Society Prime Minister Announces Manifesto Pledge at Labour Conference
Prime Minister announces manifesto pledge and historic National Commission at Labour Conference
The Guardian Labour MPs Will Push Burnham to back Voting Reform
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/aug/25/andy-burnham-electoral-reform-first-past-the-post
Labour List Majority of MPs Back Review of Voting System
https://labourlist.org/2026/08/majority-labour-mps-review-voting-system/
Official Resources
Parliament UK Alex Sobel Amendment
https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/4080/stages/20676/amendments/10035247
Labour Andy Burnham Conference Speech Transcript
Polling
YouGov Should We Change Our Current British Voting System
https://yougov.com/en-gb/trackers/should-we-change-our-current-british-voting-system
More in Common September MRP Poll
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Nigel Farage said Andy Burnham’s comments about potentially rejoining the EU had given him “the biggest boost in [his] career”. We look at why — even if it seems counter-intuitive — another Brexit debate could actually hurt Farage.
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Farage responds to Burnham’s decision to reopen EU debate
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/oct/01/burnhams-reopening-of-brexit-debate-is-biggest-boost-in-my-career-says-farage
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/30/andy-burnham-uk-could-go-all-the-way-rejoining-eu
British public sentiment on the EU
https://yougov.com/en-gb/articles/54925-what-do-britons-think-of-brexit-10-years-since-the-referendum
https://yougov.com/en-gb/articles/54567-how-strong-is-uk-support-for-rejoining-the-european-union
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/03/half-want-to-rejoin-eu-and-backing-it-could-drive-up-labour-vote-megapoll-finds
https://www.politico.eu/article/the-politico-poll-britons-want-to-get-closer-to-the-eu-and-even-farages-voters-agree/
Economic impact of Brexit
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/brexits-impact-on-the-uk-economy/
https://www.economicsobservatory.com/how-has-brexit-affected-business-investment-in-the-uk
Reform UK crises
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckly020edl45o
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3v4zvyde15o
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Yesterday, Holborn and St. Pancras headed to the polls to select a new MP (replacing former MP Keir Starmer). With another leader on the ballot, the Green’s Zack Polanski, all eyes were on the race… one Polanski ultimately lost.
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It’s been a few days now, but the UK is still responding to the reverberations caused by Andy Burnham’s bombshell conference speech. But in this video, we’re going to focus on one of his speech’s last topics: the UK-EU relationship.
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Before the Brexit referendum, a whole bunch of MPs explained to Britain how the economy would collapse post-Brexit. While Brexit hasn’t yet happened, some did say that the destruction would take place immediately after the vote; which didn’t exactly happen as expected. So in this video, we explain what’s happened and why the economy hasn’t done too badly in the end.
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[3] – https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/bulletins/quarterlynationalaccounts/apriltojune2019
[4] – https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/compendium/unitedkingdomnationalaccountsthebluebook/2019/nationalaccountsataglance
[5] – https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peoplenotinwork/unemployment/timeseries/mgsx/lms
[6] – https://www.economist.com/britain/2019/10/31/britains-economy-is-holding-up-well-for-now
[7] – https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/expenditure/bulletins/familyspendingintheuk/financialyearending2018#household-spending-in-fye-2018-was-the-highest-since-fye-2005
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@aubepinenoire
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
Bevet Kernow dieub.
@dtikvxcdgjbv7975
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
Independence ia a bridge too far: expensive venture, and second England does not want strategicall important peninsula to leave the UK.
On the other hand, I believe that devolution is really possible outcome.
@stevewiles7132
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
Wouldn't this make the Duke of Cornwall, and all the inhabitants foreigners?
@TheBadVideoMaker
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
There is some evidence that Cornish born people voted to remain, while the significant numbers of incomers were responsible for tipping the balance to leave.
@TheBadVideoMaker
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
The river is pronounced Tay-mar
@lindathomas5500
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
Sorry, but Kernow bys vyken does NOT mean freedom for Cornwall now! It means Cornwall for ever!
@navylaks2
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
all celtic nations should gonindependentband form their own union
@Godsfire
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
Kernow bys vyken means Cornwall forever, not freedom for Cornwall now.
@morvil73
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
Kernow bys vykken. means “Cornwall for ever”.
@jacobparry177
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
Kernowyon, yllowgh hwi kesunya gans Gembra mar mynnowgh hwi👀
@robertwaye803
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
Divide and conquer that there political aim .
@Savageguy_Edits
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
Yea it can 100%
@Letskeepthingsreal
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
You can’t live on pasties alone
@johndaniels3316
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
There aren't many Cornish people in Cornwall. Most are English/Anglo. The 2021 Census showed only 14% of the population of Cornwall identified as Cornish. You can't build an ethnically based independence movement off of that low a number.
@friedelhamm7784
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
A good sword and a trusty hand!
A merry heart and true!
King Charles's men shall understand
What Cornish lads can do!
@petertrebilco9430
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
One must ask how much the English monarch cares about those it still treats as its ‘subjects’ in Kernow. Each year, it’s government offers a mere 3 million GBP, but the Duke of Cornwall expects payment of 20 million GBP into its consolidated revenue for use in enjoying the irrational privilege of a persistent remnant feudal system—the ‘monarchy’—in the 21st century.
@OilBaron100
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
No wonder Boris Johnson and the Tories wanted Brexit.
Look at all of the funding that Brexit has gutted from poor areas in the UK.
@white-dragon4424
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
Devolution is a marriage of convenience, cherry picking the bits they want and rejecting the bits they don't want. You're either a part of England or you go completely independent, as in a hard border, separate passports and economy. No scooting over the border for goodies whenever you need them. Independence might have worked in the 6th Century, but not in the 21st Century, especially with zero economy. Wales would stand more chance at being independent than Cornwall would!
@Gilboy63
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
Free Cornwall, or join Wales.
@ker773
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
Kernow onen hag oll
@Antony-qp7jr
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
My mom is Cornish and lives there , my whole mom's blood line is Cornish, my dad although was born in wolves he was raised in Cornwall by his Cornish dad, I was born in Oxfordshire but spent lots of time visiting cornwall, I'm looking to move there in 2024 and get on the property ladder , and get back to my roots, cornwall I feel home, it's different to England
@jamiejames6952
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
Yeah great go on your own, the poorest county in England, an even bigger joke than the SNP
@timflatus
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
King Athelstan defined the English border as running along the east bank of the Tamar. It has never been defined otherwise. So Cornwall is the only county of England which isn't in England. Additionally, most of the Duchy of Cornwall isn't actually in Cornwall!
@megapixies
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
How do you get a Cornishman to run a small business?
Give them a big one and wait.
We’ll need a radical change in our local Council before we gain any form of independence, the majority are as bent as a hula hoop.
@MrVbd7
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
Thankyou for covering this. As a Cornishman it makes my day to see Kernow get some recognition!
Kernow Bys Vyken!
@johnreseigh4868
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
My family on both sides have a long lineage in Cornwall (I live in the US). I have supported devolution for many years.
@TheoriginalSpaceboy
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
Just wanted to say that Lisa Simpson actually chanted "Rydhsys rag Kernow lemmyn" which roughly translates as 'Free Cornwall now'
@L4g__
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
The problem with cornish idependence i think is their size, if we reform dumnonia however then we are talking, simply uniting cornwall, devon, dorest and somerset should be enough for our independence
@mectricaltitan777
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
Replace the "c" with "p"
@aaronbush6306
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
Im curious, as an outsider to all this, if anyone has considered transferring Cornwall from England to Wales, based on shared Celtic heritage and relative proximity, and both giving Cornwall more say within Wales than they have within England and giving them both, as a bloc, more power within the UK? Its not like the petty kingdoms of Wales have much legacy of pre-conquest political unity that can be pointed to as it is, so why not work together?
@markseeley8476
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
Good riddance, give them their independence, they hate the English and just about everyone else.
Miserable ignorant bunch of haters…
@TheMotorick
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
I took one of those DNA tests and they tell me I'm 51% Cornish. Prior to that I thought I was almost 100% English. I'm too old to visit the UK so I'll just watch some Cornwall videos.
@daffyddpryce1325
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
I live in the valleys of Wales. A fella from Cornwall moved to the valleys.. I got to know him and I would give him stick for being English. He used to bark back, I'm not English I'm Cornish.
@maddiebennie
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
SNP vs Mebyon Kernow
@MrChelek
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
A full independence referendum, then rejoining the EU and restoring the language as a first spoken language of the whole population! That’s the only way!!! Nothing less.
@Ch-xk5tv
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
Do Cornish feel as a part of England or as a seperate province?
@richardsmith2825
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
Unlikely.
Like Wales vast numbers of “white flight” English retirees have poured into the celtic hinterlands.
By doing so they wipe out the language, demographic make up, and politics of the area.
Incidentally the word “Senedd” is pronounced with a soft DD.
@dukeofbritannia7
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
All the people in favor of Cornish independence in the comments and non of them are from Cornwall 🤣
@craighobbs3708
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
No
@Dizzy...
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
At this rate every county will be a seperate nation 💀
@jamesjenner8159
January 5, 2024 at 3:48 am
Kernow by Royal decree should have the same status as the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. A status which Westminster choose to ignore. Even Alfred the Great recognised the Britons, as we were then called, as being independent. My Granfa always said emmets from across the River would kill the country, was he right? Kernow bys vyken!