"All the issues he identified about Cornwall are the same as the ones I'd identify cost of housing, low wages, lack of opportunity. If you're a go-getter of a certain age, you have to get out. Now it's a place people retire to, which skews the house prices even more. You can stay and work in the service industry and enjoy going to the beach, but you'll never have much income to create a life for a family."
"Occupation Automotive engineer Voting record Mebyon Kernow [a Cornish nationalist party] when that's an option, though it's not often an option. Voted Green last time, sometimes Lib Dem Amuse bouche John is a hardcore raver, and once went to a 24-hour rave in Birmingham Jeremy, 54, Wadebridge Occupation Works for a charity Voting record Normally votes Lib Dem. Voted Labour once, in 1997 Amuse bouche For a short time, he was deputy leader of Cornwall council."
John is an automotive engineer who sometimes votes Mebyon Kernow, previously voted Green, and once attended a 24-hour rave. Jeremy, 54 from Wadebridge, works for a charity, normally votes Lib Dem and voted Labour in 1997; he briefly served as deputy leader of Cornwall council and faced austerity-era decisions. Both participants identify Cornwall's core problems as high housing costs, low wages and limited opportunities that push out younger go-getters while attracting retirees. Both support devolving power to a more local level; one frames devolution as a functional necessity, the other frames it through Cornish national identity. Sparse population and weak public transport create long travel times.
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