Making Cornwall as Great a place to work as it is to live.

I moved to Cornwall in order to launch my small business, aiming to help other small businesses retain their best people (currently the County loses its talent to other areas, due to the perception of Cornwall as a workplace) I was encouraged to move the business here, as both the Chamber of Commerce and the Council had talked openly about their desire to create a better Cornwall for employees and businesses.

However, throughout Lockdown, small, innovative businesses, like mine, have been hung out to dry with no support whatsoever from any representative body, and have been lied to about why we have not been supported.

Whilst I will continue to struggle to survive hear as I genuinely believe what we are trying to achieve is worthwhile for the whole County, I do now understand why Cornwall lags so far behind the rest of the Country in living standards, average pay, employment, wellbeing, and almost every key area that is recorded by the NSO.

If Cornwall truly wants to change, and those in power actually want to change, then they should actively embrace new ideas and the creativity I have found in many businesses and business supporters, rather than "stick to what they know" and carry on blindly ambling towards the cliff edge.

Support innovation and innovation will support Cornwall. Support local people and local people will support Cornwall. Support new small businesses and new small businesses will support Cornwall. We can make Cornwall as great a place to work as it is to live, but the bodies that "run" Cornwall must prove that they actually want to.