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a statement from the Kmtu committee on the Covid-19 virus
Following discussions held by members of the Steering Group of KMTU, we have decided to fully endorse a formal announcement released by Cornwall Council and others to which a link here: https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/council-news-room/media-releases/news-from-2020/news-from-march-2020/statement-from-visit-cornwall-cornwall-council-cios-lep-and-public-health/?fbclid=IwAR3S1tTmxIyXwNCNUmPHWsRCa3IXyqfH_OIDkRpM-p1AWiCnMnRLA-JOkcs
Cornwall has suffered from years of austerity and our health and emergency services are in a state of almost permanent alert.
It is with certainty that they and other essential services, including food supplies, will not be able to cope during the current coronavirus Covid-10 pandemic if our Duchy is flooded with second home owners and other holiday makers. There will be plenty of time on some future occasion for holidays and leisure, but now is not the time.
We condemn utterly those immoral few who are placing profits before lives.We have harboured doubts for many years about the damage being done to Cornwall by uncontrolled tourism and our concerns are doubly so during this time of crisis.
We call for an eventual full public inquiry into tourism in Cornwall and a fairer balance to be struck between those seeking enjoyment and those who work and reside here.
Meanwhile, on this occasion, we join our MPs, council leaders and indeed the bulk of the people of Cornwall in saying to the holiday makers and other seasonal incomers, "Now is not the time. Please stay away."
A link to our Covid-19 resource page may be found here: https://kernowmatterstous.weebly.com/covid-support-in-kernow.html
Kernow bys vyken!
Alex, Rob, Tony, Matt, Mike, Clive, Craig, John, Teresa, Mark, Ronan, Maria
Steering Group - Kernow Matters To Us
Kernow, 22/03/2020
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Cornwall's name was first recorded in a place-name, Durocornouio, "fortress of the Cornish", c.400 AD, nearly 500 years before the name England was first recorded (as Englaland)
The Cornish were granted minority status within the UK and incorporated intoThe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities - official Westminster Government Press Release
The Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities - Articles and Explanatory Report
'Cornish' Defined!
A number of the more academic members of our group, 'Kernow Matters To You', have gathered and examined the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCPNM) as well as other documents and have agreed the following definition:
DEFINITION OF CORNISH (NATIONAL MINORITY)
CORNISH (NATIONAL MINORITY): One of the Celtic group of peoples, most closely related to the Welsh and Bretons; of predominantly post-Glacial and early prehistoric Atlantic European provenance (10,000 – 2,500 BCE), ancestrally, culturally and genetically distinct from other British communities, and historically occupants of that part of Britain’s southwestern peninsula known as Kernow, or Cornwall; who speak, or whose forebears spoke as their native community tongue, the branch of the Brythonic Celtic language group known as Kernowek (Kernewek), or Cornish.
The Cornish were granted minority status within the UK and incorporated intoThe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities - official Westminster Government Press Release
The Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities - Articles and Explanatory Report
'Cornish' Defined!
A number of the more academic members of our group, 'Kernow Matters To You', have gathered and examined the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCPNM) as well as other documents and have agreed the following definition:
DEFINITION OF CORNISH (NATIONAL MINORITY)
CORNISH (NATIONAL MINORITY): One of the Celtic group of peoples, most closely related to the Welsh and Bretons; of predominantly post-Glacial and early prehistoric Atlantic European provenance (10,000 – 2,500 BCE), ancestrally, culturally and genetically distinct from other British communities, and historically occupants of that part of Britain’s southwestern peninsula known as Kernow, or Cornwall; who speak, or whose forebears spoke as their native community tongue, the branch of the Brythonic Celtic language group known as Kernowek (Kernewek), or Cornish.
