steeplejack
seeing off the new ball
Hmmn...according to the recently published history of MK, An Gof were a bunch of right wing nutters within MK who disliked the soft-leftist direction that the organisation took under successive leaderships in the 80s. Apparently they used to ring up selected members of the leadership and advised: 'You and your Trotskyist friends had better leave'.
They weren't much beyond the occasional abysmally failed bombing attempt, and some graffiti.
A decent history of MK can be found in Mebyon Kernow & Cornish Nationalism by Philip Payton and Bernard Deacon, published in 2003. the party's website (not very exciting, admittedly) is at http://www.mebyonkernow.org
MK have never threatened to take a Cornish seat, unlike their counterparts in Plaid and the SNP. This is because the Liberals have a very strong machine in Cornwall and hoover up the kind of votes from those normally attracted by civic nationalism. Many sympathetic to some of the aims and policies of MK still vote Liberal either 1. because of a perceived credibility gap and 2. because it is felt a small and inexperienced party will have little influence in London.
MK's recent campaigns have been for a Cornish assembly, stubbornly resisted by central governemnt, and a joint understanding with the Greens. Sadly, this latter progressive alliance has met with unmitigated failure; the Greens were trounced by UKIP in the Euros in 2004, and MK, despite standing in all but one Cornish seat earlier this year, attracted a truly pitiful share of the vote.
They weren't much beyond the occasional abysmally failed bombing attempt, and some graffiti.
A decent history of MK can be found in Mebyon Kernow & Cornish Nationalism by Philip Payton and Bernard Deacon, published in 2003. the party's website (not very exciting, admittedly) is at http://www.mebyonkernow.org
MK have never threatened to take a Cornish seat, unlike their counterparts in Plaid and the SNP. This is because the Liberals have a very strong machine in Cornwall and hoover up the kind of votes from those normally attracted by civic nationalism. Many sympathetic to some of the aims and policies of MK still vote Liberal either 1. because of a perceived credibility gap and 2. because it is felt a small and inexperienced party will have little influence in London.
MK's recent campaigns have been for a Cornish assembly, stubbornly resisted by central governemnt, and a joint understanding with the Greens. Sadly, this latter progressive alliance has met with unmitigated failure; the Greens were trounced by UKIP in the Euros in 2004, and MK, despite standing in all but one Cornish seat earlier this year, attracted a truly pitiful share of the vote.
(not me I might add, I was nonplussed)
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