From: Councillor
Sent: Sunday, September 1, 2019 10:39 PM
Subject: Cornwall Council – Full meeting

Dear All,
The next full Council meeting of Cornwall Council is on the 10th September 2019 at 10.30. Any questions need to be in by THURSDAY THIS WEEK BEFORE NOON OR THEY WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
Look up the Cornwall Council website for instructions. 50 words only but you have the opportunity of a SUPPLEMENTARY QUESTION IF YOU ARE PRESENT AT THE MEETING.
IT IS MY OPINION THAT WE NEED TO ASK A QUESTION AT EVERY MEETING WHERE THE MEETING IS WEBCAST - IT CAN GO ALL OVER THE WORLD.
BUT PLEASE KEEP TO THE RULES. 50 WORDS ONLY AND FOR THE CABINET MEETING ETC. YOU MUST LOOK UP THE AGENDA - THE QUESTION HAS TO BE RELEVANT TO THE AGENDA - AND THERE ARE ONLY PROBABLY ABOUT 36 HOURS IN WHICH TO FORMULATE YOUR QUESTION AND SUBMIT IT. YOU MUST REQUEST SAFE RECEIPT OF THE QUESTION AND WHETHER IT IS IN ORDER…. SO IT IS PROBABLY A GOOD IDEA TO SUBMIT THE QUESTION ASAP IN ORDER TO OBTAIN SAFE RECEIPT AND CONFIRMATION THAT THE QUESTION HAS BEEN ACCEPTED AND IS IN ORDER.
I hope this helps.
With best wishes,

Following the unrepentant (Threemilestone) Councillor Dulcie Tudor's "sinister" remarks:

Branded 'the sinister underbelly of Cornish nationalists' by one Lib Dem Cornwall Councillor, a Councillor who accused this very group of being 'xenophobes' when we wrote expressing concerns about the bullying of Cornish people, this locally made documentary looks behind the headlines and reveals the true frustrations felt by a people not being properly represented by their elected representatives and who are subjected to ignorance and contempt by politicians at all levels:

'The Destruction of Cornwall' - a 38 minute, locally produced documentary made by a talented Cornish film maker:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esGIJbQf5hM

Finally:

MAIL RECEIVED FROM COUNCILLOR MALCOLM BROWN IN RESPONSE TO A RESPONSE FROM CORNISH SOLIDARITY.

Cllr Brown:
“Many thanks for your reply.
Cornish Solidarity has tried to address my comments and I welcome that. I suppose my concern is essentially that they have some legitimate issues, many long running, but it is not generally helpful when a target becomes a person as opposed to an idea.”

CORNISH SOLIDARITY RESPONSE:
Dear Councillor Brown we note your welcome response and comment on your points below.

Too right that your comments are being addressed Councillor Brown, so shall we continue to clear the air? It is appreciated that you have taken the trouble to initiate a dialogue even if it took a storm in a D cup when Councillor Tudor blew her top. In reality the placard in question was not even offensive, it merely questioned her pending election as Chair of Strategic Planning, making it very difficult not to mention her by name which is clearly in the public domain as an elected councillor, bearing firmly in mind that the gloves are off and Cornish Solidarity reserve the right to be very robust with hostile councillors or council officers of any mark or distinction who come to our attention.

Cllr Brown:
“I was outside County Hall briefly on the day of the last Council meeting and I may be wrong but I think the Dulcie Tudor poster was the only one that included anyone's name and so she was definitely singled out. I don't know the full history of her involvement with people from what I would call the Cornish Movement but I don't consider that any differences there may be make her unsuitable to chair Strategic Planning. She chaired the first proper one after her election well, was very careful how she worded things and I am hopeful that she will undertake this role very well. So she has my full support.”

CORNISH SOLIDARITY RESPONSE:
Councillor Tudor may have your full support Councillor Brown, however that effectively suggests that you tacitly condone her wilful refusal to do the right thing by apologising to those she has offended as an act of political expediency, the more so given that an apology has been freely and willingly tendered to Councilor Tudor by the person responsible for the poster in question. We advise caution in the use of the term Cornish Movement because there are lots of groups and we do not want any confusion or association with non legal groups that could result in smears. We as Cornish Solidarity can only speak for ourselves, but rest assured we talk to and on an informal basis we are now working closely with several other legitimate and lawful pressure groups, more frequently since the Lys Kernow protest, which brought us together for the first time in a spirit of cooperation and goodwill which can only be to our distinct longer term advantage if we decide collectively to become a formal political entity. Right glad we are to hear that Councillor Tudor was very careful in her use of words, progress indeed!

Cllr Brown:
“The phrase deep doo doo's seems an exaggeration. The Standards regime on Cornwall Council has found her guilty but the criticism is very mild. I am sure she will learn from this experience and I definitely regard her as an asset, not a liability.”

CORNISH SOLIDARITY RESPONSE:
Not wishing to get involved in semantics we will, as a concession to you, in a spirit of goodwill, amend the phrase ''deep doo doo's to mere ''doo doo's'', because that is exactly how we see the situation. Criticism however mild is still criticism. She has most certainly been found guilty of misconduct and a clear simple remedy has been handed down to draw a very clear line under the affair. A media savvy person like Councillor Tudor should never have put her foot in it to the degree she so obviously did, merely because she was unreasonably angry at a member of the public for exercising their right to protest peacefully and lawfully. The fact that she absolutely refuses to apologise is her concern, while we await the potential consequences with interest because as said before, on her head be it.

Cllr Brown:
“There is deep concern about some planning issues in Cornwall in particular the overall rate of development. I understand that well and have tabled a motion for the next Council. In many ways the council has a good record but the national context and the national pressure to stimulate growth mean that certainly councillors end undoing things we don't really want to. It seems important to me that critics try to differentiate what Cornwall Council has no choice over what to do from what it does at its own instigation and enthusiastically.”

CORNISH SOLIDARITY RESPONSE:
The deep concern you mention has always been pointedly ignored by your political group who have always treated concerned members of the public with a mixture of passive aggression and disdain. The right of reply which is always insisted upon when the boot is on the other foot has been systematically denied to those who challenge our council which has continued merrily on its way by cosying up to some very questionable partners in the development arena. Is it any wonder that the small but highly effective protest that initiated this dialogue occurred?

Cllr Brown:
“I have been a councillor for 30 years and I have always tried hard to listen to local arguments from people resident in Cornwall and Cornish people. You are fully entitled to challenge me or any of my colleagues when we appear to get it wrong or seem out of touch. I definitely want to engage with you and do not want you silenced.”

CORNISH SOLIDARITY RESPONSE:
Councillor Brown, we dispute absolutely that you have really listened to local concerns or as you put it, arguments, from Cornish residents as carefully as you claim to have. Or to put it more clearly, if you and your colleagues have actually listened, collectively as a political group it has singularly failed to respond or much less act on those concerns until the current storm in a D cup erupted into your cosy cocoon of complacency. If you actually did, how come your own patch around Bethel is infested with bland second rate overpriced developments by a now notorious developer who appears to have their own key to the well greased back door into the planning department? The developer in question always gets its own way and will almost certainly crowbar its latest outrage at Halgavor Moor through the planning system in the face of furious protests from residents in the area. We certainly intend challenging your administration even more robustly in the future, because since the protest at Lys Kernow recently, we are sure that you can sense that suddenly things are a little different, we most certainly will not be silenced. The single issue that concerns us most because it threatens our families as much as yours is the parlous state of healthcare in Cornwall with particular emphasis on the growing problems at Treliske in the face of an artificially exploding population that the system cannot absorb. This is the biggest single issue that is not being properly addressed and it is the one that is going to get people out in numbers looking for scapegoats in the near future.

Once more for your benefit and as often as necessary we repeat Cornish Solidarity's mission statement:

The day that an elected representative or employed government servant begins to view the electorate as something to be ridiculed or ignored is the day that he or she ceases to be fit for office.

Best wishes
Cornish Solidarity