Westminster Government sent timely reminder regarding the Cornish National Minority by the Council of Europe (BBC to note)!

Resolution CM/ResCMN(2018)1 on the implementation of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities by the United Kingdom at the 1306 meeting of the Ministers Deputies adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 7 February 2018 reminds the distant, arrogant, discredited and uncaring Westminster Government of the following in respect of the Cornish:

Take all necessary steps to ensure to the Cornish minority the continued access to the linguistic and cultural rights provided by the Framework Convention. To this end, assess and, if needed, prolong after April 2019 the provision by the government to the Cornish Culture Fund of means to support the development of Cornish culture, heritage and language.

Take the necessary measures to include a Cornish “tick-box” in the next census in view of the Cornish people’s recognition as a national minority.

Take resolute action to ensure that the revision of the BBC Charter improves access to mass media for persons belonging to national and ethnic minorities; increase funding and ensure a variety of programmes for minority languages, in particular for the Irish language, and introduce such support for the Cornish language.

Engage in a dialogue with the Cornish minority to ensure that cultural policies are developed in a way respectful of the traditions and the identity of the minority; improve the use and visibility of Cornish in public life at the local level and consider flexible and pragmatic solutions to allow more systematic provision of education in the Cornish language and of the Cornish culture.

Intensify targeted initiatives to maximise participation of persons belonging to national and ethnic minorities in employment, training and career progression in line with the Vision 2020 targets.

Continue the good dialogue with the three devolved administrations and establish permanent ongoing dialogue and consultative mechanisms with Cornwall Council.

We wonder if the bloated expense claim form filling and wild, subsidised, drunken and inappropriate parties being conducted in the crumbling and self absorbed Palace of Westminster which swallows up increasing sums of our hard earned taxes will cease for long enough to allow the message from the Council of Europe to sink in?

Our reports and those of other groups and organisations will continue to be sent to the Council of Europe revealing the truth of our situation.

The Council of Europe (don't mistake for EU - two different things even though some Little Englander politicians don’t even know the difference!) have told the UK Government to buck up its ideas about Cornwall. The government is not listening to us, so perhaps they will listen to the Council they set up themselves back in the 1940s!

Link to Council of Europe Adopted Resolution here:

https://search.coe.int/cm/Pages/result_details.aspx?ObjectID=0900001680787538