They've always had minority status, it's just that there were never enough votes in Cornwall for any government to give a flying fuck. All bets are off now and Steve & co are being wooed by foreign Englishmen in suits claiming to have empathy and three months down payment rent on a cottage as close to The Tamar as they can get.

I blame that Jethro. If it wasn't for him, they could have got on with designing six fingered flutes and sunglasses with three lenses, and no one would have been any the wiser. (Except in Norfolk, their chief export market for such goods.)