The 2nd Cornish National Minority Report

Below those interested will find the 2nd Cornish National Minority report submitted to the UK government and the Council of Europe's secretariat for the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. It makes a great synthesis of the arguments for the existence of a Cornish national identity

A URL to the pdf is here: http://www.oldcornwall.org/Cornish Minority Report final doc. PDF.pdf

All those who support our cause should feel free to circulate to all interested parties.

Oll an gwella

 

To ‘the three Rs’, add ‘I’ for identity | Cornwall24.net According to the latest results from the PLASC Cornwall Schools ethnicity survey 41% of Cornish kids prefer to describe themselves as Cornish rather than English, British or any combination.

United Nation Convention on the Rights of the Child.

 

In the 21st century Europe, where the recent 100 years of ultra nationalism is now getting to the point where it completes the elimination of minority languages and identities, the Cornish are prooving that there is survival, and even the most internationally supported bully will fail.

 

Cornwall is surely a coastline, not a country.

 

Part 1 of an expose from Cornish historian John Angarrak: Laws surrounding Duchy of Cornwall seen as 'mysterious, complex and arcane' | This is Cornwall

Follow the link to read more.

As I've said. Those that want radical democratic reform need to know where the week spots are and when to apply pressure.

 

So one person then.... Lets face facts, even in Cornwall the movement for separation is very very very small....

 

We have 5 elected councillors on Cornwall Council plus many independents and LibDems that support devolution. In 2002 we gathered a petition of 50,000 signatures calling for a Cornish Assembly. Three of our six MP support the creation of a Cornish Assembly as does the Green party. We are not as far advanced as Plaid or the SNP but we're not to be ignored either.

Last weekend saw two brilliant essays by John Angarrack on the Duchy and Cornwall’s constitutional status appear in the Western Morning News of all places! Read them here:

Laws surrounding Duchy of Cornwall seen as 'mysterious, complex and arcane' | This is Cornwall

It's time to challenge 'private estate' claims | This is Cornwall

At the end of the last essay Angarrack has the following to say:

 

and Scotland is? not very liberal of you Viv.

 

Pob lwc, C. It is a long road, but it doesn't turn back. We'll be cheering you on.

 

Can I circulate it too? I am not Conish, but I hate the idea of nation statehood, and I think that nation states' nationalistic assimilation policies are a crime. (Both linguistically and administratively.)