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The theft of Cornish culture |
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Culture is deep, ancient and multi-facetted and it is our intellectual property, not that of some unelected quango based hundreds of miles away. Cornish culture is unique and, as a result, priceless. It needs close guardianship, protection and understanding and bears no relationship to cultures found in Devon, Somerset and wherever else these people count as ‘South West’. Yett CSW intend to bury it deep within an artificial ‘culture’ of their own manufacture. We must prevent that from ever happening.
Rampant English nationalism or supremacism has created ‘English Heritage’, Sport ‘England’, ‘English’ Estates and so on, to operate on Celtic soil, knowing full well the distress, anger and indignation these political titles cause among proudly Cornish people. Now, we have another one whose current plan even threatens to radically alter the entire character of the iconic Penwith Moors.
In line with this political policy, the former Nature Conservancy Council changed its name to ‘English’ Nature and, more recently, to Natural ‘England’. This quango has now taken over the adminstrative role of farming conservation subsidies of schemes such as the highly successful environmentally sensitive area, a designation given to the Penwith Moors 23 years ago. This encouraged local farmers to operate in traditional ways in order to conserve both the natural and historic landscapes. There was a 90 per cent take-up of this subsidised scheme among local farmers and it was, in all respects, an excellent scheme that benefitted everyone.
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