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HomeAbout How the West was Won…FundingThe AuthorsThe Film – How the West Was Won (2015)Produced and Directed by Students and Academics of the Universities of Exeter and FalmouthStay updated via RSSHTWWW on FacebookHTWWW on FacebookContributors  Alex Ollington Joshua Butt  Capital Crisis In Nature  John Ault Tom Baker  Thomas Baker  Tom Fidler  Will Orchard  William HaslamThe 2015 ElectionElection DayMay 7th, 2015The big day is here.MetaRegisterLog inEntries RSSComments RSSWordPress.comOPINION PIECE: Budget Cuts of £200 million at Cornwall CouncilPosted: December 1, 2014 by Will Orchard in Mebyon KernowTags: Cornwall Council, Loveday Jenkin0Will Orchard writes about his anger at the £200 million cuts at Cornwall Council.As Cornwall Council announced £200 million budget cuts on Tuesday last week, they attempted to sweeten the news that this was down to directives from Westminster, which completely undermines the very reason they were elected to power: to fight for Cornwall.While ordinary Cornish people experience no real wage rises due to inflation, some are faced with redundancy, and to rub salt into the wound they will also experience a reduction of public services in libraries, schools, and healthcare. This all exists while Cornwall receives, in the words of Cornwall Council Leader John Pollard, “an acceptable increase in council tax”, amounting to 1.97%. Furthermore, Cornwall Council has acted with all haste to locate these public sector savings. According to their 2014/15 budget, they estimated to make savings of “£41m over the next twelve months [and] will then need to find further reductions making a total of up to £195m over the next five years.” It appears that the Lib Dem and Independent majority led Council has succeeded in reducing inefficiencies, working overtime to squeeze every penny of the extra £5m they under budgeted by, out of the Cornish tax payer.None of the ‘Big Three’ representatives in Cornwall Council are immune from criticism on this crippling policy. While Westminster present spending cuts, the councillors of the Lib Dems, Tories and Labour, answer with what MK Councillor Andrew Long called “the deafening silence.” As Lib, Con, and Lab councillors appease their London parties and sit tight on the Council, they are steadily drifting away from the people they are supposed to serve. Thus, the time is right for Cornwall Councillors of the Big Three who oppose budget cuts to start acting in the interests of the Cornish people, and send a clear message to their London-centric leaders.Mebyon Kernow do offer an alternative to the repetitive, boring, and stagnant politics that British people, arguably as late as the Scottish referendum, have been subjected to. At the MK Conference, Councillor Loveday Jenkin described MK as “more Labour than Labour”, standing as a real bastion against both mainstream politics, and the policies carried out by the subservient followers of the London millionaire party leaders. The Cornish