But they do bring in the money with them.
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No they don't.
They spend their money in the coast resorts.
Internally, Cornwall is a poor place.
They spend their money in the coast resorts.
Internally, Cornwall is a poor place.
Mick F. Cornwall
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Looked up emmet: an ant. Very nice. Tourists are also grockles, apparently, which raised the hackles of a Burnham-on-Sea councillor: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news ... side-town/ (No, I don't read the Bellygrab, but Google does).
Robert Emmet was the last man sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered in the UK - something to think on when you see the unwashed hordes treating your county as a sideshow.
Have we got time for another cuppa?
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We rarely visit the Coast anywhere in the UK.OK it's nice but not really our thing.We prefer it inland.
It's funny to me that folk stand on a beach and say 'wow look at that view'.Once you get past the surf it's just sea and sky!
Now if they were to take a boat a few hundred yards out and look back inland they'd get a proper view
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Internal Cornwall is poor because it's out on a limb a long way from anything really so industry suffers as a result.
Tourists do bring in money but only spend where they visit,that stands to reason.
If you think Cornwal is poor now,IMHO it'll get worse when the EU grant money for poorer areas of the UK dries up.
I'm pretty damn sure the Tories won't fill the gap left.
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"All we are not stares back at what we are"
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"All we are not stares back at what we are"
W H Auden
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People don't just go to the coast to look out to sea,they go surfing,sailing,swimming and relaxing on the beach,none of which may be your thing but diffent people have different ideas of what an enjoyable holiday is,it takes all sort to make a world!Hellhound wrote: ↑5 Sep 2021, 10:40amWe rarely visit the Coast anywhere in the UK.OK it's nice but not really our thing.We prefer it inland.
It's funny to me that folk stand on a beach and say 'wow look at that view'.Once you get past the surf it's just sea and sky!
Now if they were to take a boat a few hundred yards out and look back inland they'd get a proper view
MickF talks of tourists as if they're a curse but Cornwall and quite a few other places would be much poorer without them,would he prefer factories?
Some folk don't know when they're well off IMO.I live 1/2 amile from the A580 Liverpool to Manchester trunk road and 2miles from J23 M6,I could moan about how built up it all is but in an hour's drive I can be in the Yorkshire Dales or North Wales National parks or the Peak District Nat Park or The Lake District a 30minute drive gets to delightful Southport,Lytham,40mins to Arnside and Silverdale,etc,etc.
Count yer blessings chaps,they'll be fewer as time goes on with the rabble currently running the country!
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Careful, it's been discussed earlier in this thread and I wrote a post about a Dylan song called 'The Death of Emmett Till' based on a - horrible - true story. Vorpal quite justifiably deleted it and other follow-up posts, presumably because they had no place in a thread entitled 'What Has Made You Laugh Today'. Quite right too!
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Tourists are not a curse.
I never said anything of the sort.
They pass through to the tourists resorts, never stopping. M5/A30 is the main route. The spend their monies in a narrow strip of coastline.
Factories?
Yes please. We need jobs. Not me, I'm retired, but all four of us in our family have and had jobs here.
The possibility of a lithium mine and the opening up a tin mine or two, is great.
Tourists spend their money on the coasts. The people there are doing very well out of it, but no-one else is.
The EU Objective One funding was welcome somewhere in Cornwall, but we've seen no evidence of it.
By all accounts, the Tories will be match-funding it, but I doubt we'll see much of that either.
Mick F. Cornwall
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"Exactly what the EU has funded in Cornwall"
"As Brexit drags on we look at where all the billions of pounds Cornwall has received from the EU has gone"
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornw ... ll-2697596
Do you mean matching the EU funding, or central government matching endogenous funding? Have you got a source for that matched funding, please?
Thanks
Jonathan
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Oh well. I was ticked off on FB the other day for making a comment that included the figure 7.62 and a reference to political re-education. That made me laugh.kylecycler wrote: ↑5 Sep 2021, 1:26pmCareful, it's been discussed earlier in this thread and I wrote a post about a Dylan song called 'The Death of Emmett Till' based on a - horrible - true story. Vorpal quite justifiably deleted it and other follow-up posts, presumably because they had no place in a thread entitled 'What Has Made You Laugh Today'. Quite right too!
Have we got time for another cuppa?
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You've continually termed tourists as ants(emmets),Ants are regarded as pests generally.
They spend their money where they will,the fact that that doesn't suit your idea of where you think they should spend their money is your problem not theirs.They pass through to the tourists resorts, never stopping. M5/A30 is the main route. The spend their monies in a narrow strip of coastline
But you're out on a literal limb and not central to anything,that's why there's no industry.Factories?
Yes please. We need jobs. Not me, I'm retired, but all four of us in our family have and had jobs here.
The possibility of a lithium mine and the opening up a tin mine or two, is great.
I sincerly hope the Lithium mining takes off and provides Cornish people ith work and prosperity
It's the nature of tourism as I'm sure you know,when you go to Benidorm it's the same story,ask a Spaniard who lives inland from the resorts.Tourists spend their money on the coasts. The people there are doing very well out of it, but no-one else is
You personally in your small part of Cornwall may not have seen much of EU funding but other places most certainly have.The EU Objective One funding was welcome somewhere in Cornwall, but we've seen no evidence of it.
By all accounts, the Tories will be match-funding it, but I doubt we'll see much of that either.
As for the Tories they're are full of empty promises one of them was Brexit and it's many advantages for the UK,fat chance,as we're now finding out!
There are many other promises we'll never see.....
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"They pass through to the tourists resorts, never stopping. M5/A30 is the main route. The spend their monies in a narrow strip of coastline."
That's after they have been robbed at the Jamaica Inn at Bolventor.
That's after they have been robbed at the Jamaica Inn at Bolventor.
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I'd rather have the little towns and villages inland. Much more interesting.Mick F wrote: ↑5 Sep 2021, 3:12pmTourists are not a curse.
I never said anything of the sort.
They pass through to the tourists resorts, never stopping. M5/A30 is the main route. The spend their monies in a narrow strip of coastline.
Factories?
Yes please. We need jobs. Not me, I'm retired, but all four of us in our family have and had jobs here.
The possibility of a lithium mine and the opening up a tin mine or two, is great.
Tourists spend their money on the coasts. The people there are doing very well out of it, but no-one else is.
The EU Objective One funding was welcome somewhere in Cornwall, but we've seen no evidence of it.
By all accounts, the Tories will be match-funding it, but I doubt we'll see much of that either.
We live by the sea and have magnificent proper sandy beaches, I never visit.
Tourists can keep the coastline.
I am here. Where are you?
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Spotted next to a timber yard on a ride yesterday.
Hence the phrase; 'I felt a bit of a plank'Nu-Fogey