A Cornwall where local people count

I feel that local people have been well and truly forgotten. All I read in the local media is about tourists and second homes. What about those of us who live and work here, from generations of others who have done the same? The council doesn't seem to want to listen to our concerns about what we actually see happening to the place where we live. It's being abused and that is plain for all to see. A reckless choice has been made to go down the path of massed tourism which is damaging in the extreme. I have no connections with tourism nor does anyone I know but we come second to its demands. All we are seen as is a source of regular income in the form of rising council taxes, fees for this, fees for that, business rates and so on. I and many others are also weary of reading about what the 'chief' of Cornwall tourism wants, a Malcolm Bell. Every other article in the press is about him and his clientele and yet who of us voted for him? Do our views count for anything any more? I live in an area which has been devastated by over tourism and second homes and am not alone in feeling a sense of anger at the disenfranchisement more and more feel. Our elected representatives never reply to what I and others have sent them and just ignore us.