Equal rights for the Cornish
In its second report of December 2006 to the Council of Europe on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, (from which the Cornish national minority have been excluded since 1998) the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain asserts, at para.14:-
“The term “national minority” has no legal meaning in the UK and so there is no mechanism under any of the UK’s legal jurisdictions to grant ‘national minority status’ to any particular group nor is it proposed to introduce any such mechanism”.
This assertion necessarily gives rise to consideration of the corresponding term “national majority” (which can only be associated with the English racial group of the British population) to establish its “legal meaning” and “national status”.
It is noted that the state funded ‘Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England’, as established by Parliament under the National Heritage Act 1983, chapter 47, trading as English Heritage, (Registrar of Companies No.1852569)* gives official confirmation of the existence of an English group which has been thereby, officially granted “national majority status” with “legal meaning” and with implicit majority cultural status.
Therefore, the decisions of the government of the United Kingdom and its legislative procedures in selectively granting “national majority status” with “legal meaning” to the English national majority group of 1,500 years standing in Britain, and not all other national groups, demonstrates that it does not recognise or apply equality before the law, as enshrined at Article 7 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, and consequently, the government’s refusal to grant the Cornish national minority group, of over 2,300 years standing in Britain, and possibly other racial groups, “national minority status” with “legal meaning”, further demonstrates that, by not incorporating a guaranteed and enforceable equality before the law into United Kingdom law, the government has, by that omission, failed to establish an unbiased “legal mechanism”, and thereby created for itself the freedom of a legal vacuum to promote institutionalised racial discrimination against the Cornish national minority group contrary to United Nations ethical principles and Protocol 12 of the European Convention of Human Rights which has also yet to be incorporated.
Attached please find a copy of: “Equal rights for the Cornish” giving detailed background information on Cornish history and current affairs in relation to Cornish World Heritage sites. Please refer to paras. 1.01; 1.02 and 2.07; 2.08 and 3.05; 3.06).
Further information and confirmation documents are available.
Thank you for your time.
Yours sincerely,
Colin Murley
Stannary Information Office,
Camborne,
Cornwall GB
TR14 0JG
Tel:- 01209-710938.