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EDM 1299. RIGHTS OF TRIBAL AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES. 20.04.2009
as previously quoted an early day motion is: -
Early day motions (EDMs) are formal motions submitted for debate in the House of Commons. However, very few EDMs are actually debated. Instead, they are used for reasons such as publicising the views of individual MPs, drawing attention to specific events or campaigns, and demonstrating the extent of parliamentary support for a particular cause or point of view.
as described on the homepage of the Early Day Motions website.
Early day motion 1299 reads as follows and to date has attracted 122 signatures from your MP’s: -
That this House welcomes the 20th anniversary of International Labour Organisation Convention 169 on Tribal and Indigenous Peoples, which recognises and respects the land rights of indigenous peoples;
notes that protecting the land rights of indigenous peoples is the most effective way to protect the world's rainforests, crucial in the battle against climate change;
further welcomes a memorandum submitted to the Environment Audit Committee by the Department for International Development and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which recognises the importance of ensuring indigenous peoples' rights are respected in terms of ownership of the carbon asset;
notes the Government's continued refusal to put these rights on a firm legal footing and ratify Convention 169, on the grounds that there are no indigenous peoples in the United Kingdom;
further notes that this has not prevented either the Netherlands or Spain from joining the list of 20 countries, including Brazil, that have ratified the Convention;
believes that protecting the rights of indigenous peoples is a matter of international concern; and calls on the Government to ratify Convention 169 without delay.
In the first paragraph above they recognise and respect the land rights of indigenous populations. In the fourth and fifth paragraphs they note our government’s refusal to put these rights on a legal footing in the United Kingdom because we do not have an indigenous population whilst recognising the indigenous populations of The Netherlands and Spain. in the final paragraph they laughably declare that, “protecting the rights of indigenous peoples is a matter of international concern”.
Are these MP’s confused or what?
I first came across this early day motion on the Wigan Patriot blog and I will reproduce the words that I found there: -
A cross party body of MP's have signed a document that explicitly states that whilst they support the rights of indigenous peoples across the world to keep their own lands and culture from immigration and invasion, they do not believe that the indigenous British people even exist.
This is in effect a deceleration of intent to commit genocide.
By refusing to admit that we even exist, then we can be removed and no crime has been committed.
In effect this document is a declaration of intent to destroy the entire British people.
As we do not exist then we have no national culture, no civil rights, no right to stop ourselves from being a minority in our own country - we do not exist therefore the Britain we built, and our ancestors died to defend, does not exist.
This is the ultimate act of treason.
I cannot disagree with a word of that and furthermore I assure you of my certainty that a British National Party member of parliament would never sign such an early day motion. Never!
