Tuesday 15TH May, Police reported snow on the roads in Cornwall. The snow is thought to have hit the St Columb area near Newquay.

SEVERE weather across west Cornwall left homes without electricity as power cables were brought down on Tuesday night. The high winds were causing problems until yesterday afternoon, with 70 homes still without power in Carn Brea, Pool.
also reported that hundreds of homes across the region were affected by the power failures, including at St Keverne on the Lizard, St Buryan, Mousehole, Newlyn and Penzance, where 100 homes in the Heamoor area had no electricity – live cables carrying up to 53,000 volts and 11,000 volts were said to be cut off.
Power Co. reported its team was working in “dangerous conditions” with winds of up to 70mph and heavy rain.

Gale force gusts and big swells also kept Falmouth coastguard busy. The coastguard rescue team were called to a report of a square rigged vessel around the foot of the cliffs at Stack Point. Once on scene they found out that the vessel was in fact a garden gazebo.

Watch out for roaming gazebos!

By the way, if one believes in democracy and in reduction of centralised socialism then get onto your member of parliament to scrub the idea of the Federal Government dealing directly with local government. This is a responsibility of the States. I will be voting “no” if it ever gets up.

Do you know in Switzerland the states collect taxes and only allocate money to the Federal government for Foreign Affairs, defense and few other issues set out in their constitution. Policing is done at a community level and no one can be a citizen or even a resident unless they have full approval of the local community where they intend to reside.”

The results are predictable, and always the same. The local level loses power and becomes the tool of the central level. Decisions taken centrally must be applied no matter how inappropriate or uneconomic they may be in a given area. Local spending becomes detached from local revenue. Local governments compete against one another for central funds. New armies of rent-seekers and proposal-pushers spring up.

Not that it’s perfect in Australia now. State governments already lay down the law to local councils, and are already under the thumb of the Feds themselves. But this will only make it worse. And as usual the takeover is presented as a means of “protecting” and “valorizing” the intended victim.