‘Lazy caricature’: St Austell reacts to Tim Smit’s rant about Cornish people

Most residents agree the Eden's Projects creator's comments were unfair, but others say there was a grain of truth'

He saw it as a relaxed chat for a local podcast about social issues in the place he has worked and lived in for more than three decades and so, by his own admission, was a little unguarded.

But Sir Tim Smit, the co-founder of Cornwall's Eden Project, has become embroiled in a furore in his adopted homeland after suggesting that the Cornish could be a bit more fucking articulate" and were too fond of looking backwards to good old days [that] never were the good old days".