Eden Project co-founder attacks backward-looking ‘tossers’ in Cornwall

Backlash follows Sir Tim Smit's comments that the good old days never were the good old days'

The co-founder of the Eden Project has caused a stir by suggesting that Cornish people are not articulate and are overly fond of looking back to an imaginary good old days".

Speaking on a podcast focusing on social issues in Cornwall, where the attraction is situated, Sir Tim Smit bemoaned the fact that people who spoke about the county were sometimes criticised as arrogant" if they are not Cornish themselves.