Cornish Nationalist Party
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The Cornish Nationalist Party （CNP; Cornish: An Parti Kenethlegek Kernow） is a political party, founded by Dr James Whetter, who campaigned for independence for Cornwall.
It was formed by people who left Cornwall's main nationalist party Mebyon Kernow on 28 May 1975, but it is no longer for independence.
A separate party with a similar name （Cornish National Party） existed from 1969.
The split with Mebyon Kernow was based on the same debate that was occurring in most of the other political parties campaigning for autonomy
from the United Kingdom at the time （such as the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru）: whether to be a centre-left party,
appealing to the electorate on a social democratic line, or whether to appeal emotionally on a centre-right cultural line.
Originally, another subject of the split was whether to embrace devolution as a first step to full independence （or as the sole step if this was what the electorate wished） or for it to be "all or nothing".
The CNP essentially represented a more right-wing outlook from those who disagree that economic arguments were more likely to win votes than cultural.
The CNP worked to preserve the Celtic identity of Cornwall and improve its economy, and encouraged links with Cornish people overseas and with other regions with distinct identities.
It also gave support to the Cornish language and commemorated Thomas Flamank, a leader of the Cornish Rebellion in 1497, at an annual ceremony at Bodmin on 27 June each year.
The Policy Statement and Programme of the CNP were published in 1975 and included the following points: There have been perceived
image problems as the CNP has been seen as similarly styled BNP and NF...
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