The Pledge
Pledge “Cornish-Tick-Box”
"I will refuse to fill out the 2011 UK census unless there is a Cornish ethnicity tick box option but only if 1,000 other people will do the same."
— Chris Jones
Deadline to sign up by: 1st January 2011
509 people have signed up, 491 more needed
Country: United Kingdom
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The results from the 2001 UK population census show that over 37,000 people hold a Cornish identity instead of English or British. On this census for the first time the Cornish were allocated the UK ethnic group code of '06'. However to claim to be Cornish, you had to first deny being British, by crossing out the British option, and then write in Cornish in the others box. Additionally the decision to collect information on the Cornish identity was extremely badly publicised and many were unaware of the new code. How many more would have described themselves as Cornish if they did not have to deny being British or if there had been a Cornish tick box ? How many people knew that it was an option ? How many ticked British but feel themselves to be Cornish British ?
Cornish ethnicity data from the 2001 Census
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/BSPS/an...
http://www.cornishnotenglish.com
http://www.thisisnotcornwall.co.uk
Signers – via Facebook
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Signers – via PledgeBank.com
doog allan, Dr Y (J) Ingram, Fay Smith, Wil Homan, Charlotte Eagle, Robin Inch, Anna Seymour, Demelza Waring, Paul BARNES, phill young, Simon James, Oh my GOD ....get over it!!! YOU'RE NOT A COUNTRY!!!, Joe Swan, david garwood, Jacqueline Davey, nigel mitchell, Matthew Haskins, Matthew Bromley, Mel Retallack, louise knowles, Stephanie Wilson, Tom Drury, Rob Williams, Even if you cornish got you're own country, you wouldn't be able to run it well, Michael Nicholls, Annie Ostapenko, Jimbo, ian james, FH Pitts, James Tresidder, Philippa Mills, John Tremayne Watson 3 Royal Welsh, Paul Chapman, Max Hogg, Peter Brodey, David Noall, Lynsey Wilson, Joel James Buckland, adam perkins, Rowena Osmond, Kathleen Barnett, Jim Thompson, Timothy Strong, Malcolm Rolling, Jock Orton, amanda osmond, Martin Venner, glyn venner, lisa pascoe, Jessica Hudson, SANDRA GREENAWAY, plus 446 others by email at www.pledgebank.com/Cornish-Tick-Box.
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