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Taking Back Our Communities: The Rise of the National Residents Association · UK Column Radio

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Hi, Cassie. It's, it's lovely to see you
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today. I've got Cassie here from the
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National Residents Association. Now, a lot of people may not
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know what that is, but I can tell you now if you don't, you
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need to know because it's where you get power within your
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community to, to fight things because we are all under attack.
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Let's face it. And Cassie has taken the
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initiative of building up this, this, this, this organization.
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Tell us a little bit more about it, Cassie.
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Hi, Sandy. Well, thank you for having me
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on. Firstly, it's a pleasure to be
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here. OK, So I started the National
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Residence Association because I realized that a lot of problems
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in this country were being driven from the council level.
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So all the problems that we see, most of the time the roll outs
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are happening locally and that then feeds back to the council.
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So I wanted to set up a vehicle where for people that didn't
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want to be in the political sphere per SE, but just wanted
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to be able to reach out and do some work in their local
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community to be able to push back.
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And that's where the National Residence Association happened.
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Right, that's, that's amazing. So tell me what what's you know,
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how, how you've progressed from the very beginning to what's
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happening now, because there's a lot of really exciting things
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happening and I just would like you to put it into your own
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words. Oh, thank.
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You so we, we originally started because we could see that the 5G
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roll out was, it was just, it was increasing exponentially
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across the country. And that was one of our starting
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points in, you know, what can we do to stop these masks and how
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can we push back in our local area to stop them at the
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planning phase, ideally. So then we can get the, the
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support of the general public. So we started with that
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particular topic and I wrote scripts to help people talk to
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the be able to converse with the general public with correct
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design leaflets. And we've done campaigns and
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we've figured out strategies now where people we can just go
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around essentially and just leaflet or let people know on
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Facebook or social media so that we can create that presence and
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that awareness. So that therefore, if the
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general public don't want these masks outside their properties,
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then they can push back and know how to do it because most of the
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time the general public don't understand that they have a
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choice. And that's one of the
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complexities that we're facing nationwide across this country.
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So if you then bring us on to where we are today, we're we're
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pushing back on things such as data centers, batch energy
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storage systems, solar farms, wind farms, you know, widespread
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issues across the country. That's amazing.
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I mean, we, we, we are under, under this sort of attack where
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farmland is being taken over by these, these wind farms and, and
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solar, solar farms. And I know that we've been
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battling it here where, where I live in Somerset.
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So I know that you've got, you have national residents
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associations in Weston Super Mare, for instance, and, and
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surrounding areas. But I want to set one up here,
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which I'll do with your, with your help, I hope, because we've
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got problems with the, the World Heritage status bid that's going
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on for Glastonbury. And quite honestly, the, the,
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the woman who was leading that has been really, really sort of
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got at by by the council particularly.
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And, and if she, if we had a residence association, it would
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be more anonymous. So it's a body, It's not
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somebody you can target. I mean, she, she's actually had
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a livelihood threatened. So I really think that this is
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such an amazingly powerful thing to be getting sorted and that
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there is power in in the numbers so individuals don't have to do
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it on their own. And I think that's that's the
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beauty of it as well, isn't it? Absolutely.
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Because The thing is, is they target you can be targeted if
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you're on your own. And we've seen, I mean, how many
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people have written freedom of informations to cancelled over
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the course of time, not really got a proper response.
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Now it's about us making people take accountability for what is
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happening. So when you're a singular kind
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of person acting on your own or albeit I respect anybody that's
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been doing that, sometimes we just don't get the results that
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we're looking for. Now, when you look at going,
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well, hang on a minute, we're not happy about saying even if
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it's just a myopic topic that the bins are being taken, the
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black bins being taken every three weeks now or something,
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you know, it's just a ridiculous thing, but actually that really
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aggravates people or potholes or whatever the topic is.
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It doesn't actually necessarily matter.
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It's about building a relationship with your community
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to be able to show them. And then that onus gets taken
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away from you, which is the main thing, because you are then
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representing your community, which is vitally important
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during these times. Yeah, and these residents
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associations can become really influential and powerful.
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It's a voice for the people rather than the councils because
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they are not working in the favour of of of the people.
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So it's almost like forming a kind of parallel council, isn't
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it, where you're putting pressure on them all the time?
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Yeah. Idea, yeah.
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Yeah. And look, you can start small
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and then it gets it gets bigger and you know, the only way that
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you're going to make change is by to reach people locally.
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And if you can multiply that to nationally, all over the country
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or even internationally people doing the same sort of thing,
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it, it really does have that sort of strength to be able to
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push back, especially when people start to realize that
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hold on a minute, because the council are rolling out this and
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we're our council taxes are increasing, but yet we can't
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afford this. It's lots of different things
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like that, that when people start to realize they question
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it and then you get support. Yeah, that's fantastic.
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Now you've done, I know you've done a lot of work on the data
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centres and the battery storage facilities, which are actually
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quite dangerous or very dangerous.
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And a lot of people don't know about this.
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Can you just sort of expand? Because obviously they're
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creeping in, but people don't, you know, forewarned is
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forearmed as we, as we know. And I think people have just
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gotten onto the fact that the solar panel solar farms and the
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the wind farms are are are kind of against the people.
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Tell me about the data centers and the battery storage.
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So I'll I'll take it back a tad if I may, with the wind turbines
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and the the solar farms. All of these three things in
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particular, I see them as being linked.
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So I'm trying to make a movie to showcase how those 3 components
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are intertwined with each other. So let's just think about a wind
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turbine or a solar farm. When it has an overflow of
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electricity, it then goes back into something which we'd call a
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battery energy storage system. So that battery energy storage
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system then contains power for four up to six hours, which is
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not very long in the great scheme of things.
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Now, battery energy storage systems, to put it into context
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for people, they are about the same size as a shipping
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container. So you could be getting 1
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battery energy storage system site that could might have one
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singular one right the way up to I think they're looking at
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building 1 site in Scotland and I think they're looking at
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expanding that to over 100. Now the, the underpinning
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problem with battery energy storage systems is the fact that
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they they have a thermal runaway and that thermal runaway can
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ignite and it's be highly explosive.
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So people are unaware because these, these, not only are they
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putting that down the solar and the wind batch energy storage
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system, they're now putting the batch energy storage systems
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along with most of these applications as well.
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That is including data centers. We've just seen two, I know of
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two, one in particular. I definitely know that there's a
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batch energy storage system component in it, alike with the
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one that we've recently just discovered in Liverpool, a data
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centre. Yes, I mean, I've, I've seen
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them in America and some of them are massive and they do have the
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the somehow they seem to catch on fire a lot.
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So this is a big worry, isn't it?
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So. It's a huge worry and what we've
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gone and tried to do is we have tried to engage with a senior
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professional within the fire service to see if we can try and
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get some additional support for us for our campaigning because
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it would be good to have the fire services on board as
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statutory consultees. Now, if you think about it,
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there was a fire back in Liverpool and this is just one.
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Some reporting say there's been about 85 fires worldwide, some
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say 35. But we know there's been lithium
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ion fires in this country this year, albeit there might not be
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directly related to battery energy storage systems.
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There is that still that virus there.
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Now, back in 2020 in Liverpool, there was a fire that broke out
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and that took 59 hours to extinguish.
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You know, I wrote to the Merseyside Fire and Rescue to
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identify, you know, what has been done since because that's
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really serious. Those people.
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I mean, you know, now if we're going to be putting these up at
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a rapid rate across the country, which again, because because
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there's so many other things that is happening all at the
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same time, people miss this component and they don't realize
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that this infrastructure is going to create a long term
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issue. So that that potentially means
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that we, we need, we need these to be assessed further.
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So for an example, there was an application that's gone in near
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a primary school in, up in up north.
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So Can you imagine if there was a fire then what, what would
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those risks look like? What would actually happen if
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children needed to be evacuated from the school?
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We just don't know. And is that that's caused by the
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thermal runoff? Is it?
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It's quite highly festival. Is it?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's, it ignites, it overheats
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and the thermal runaway can ignite and that's when the the
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explosion can occur. Yeah.
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So it's it's very serious. I mean, there's so many, so many
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things wrong about everything they're doing.
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Like, you know, all these batteries on in cars explode.
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I mean, it was a massive thing on the way to Devon on the M5
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the other day where a whole transporter burst into flames on
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the motorway and it closed away for literally 2 days because it
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was somewhere between Exeter from Exeter and Cullompton or
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somewhere like that. And I couldn't believe it.
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There's the whole, the whole transporter or one of the cars
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burst into flames, one of these electric vehicles that it was
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carrying. And it just, it just ignited the
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whole lot. And it was a whole transporter
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of flames. And people were taking
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photographs of it. And I thought these things are
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so dangerous and that's why they're not allowed anymore on,
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on ferries and things like that. The, the insurance is way too
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much for the ferry companies. So even with all of that
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happening, they're still trying to force these things on us.
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Yeah. And it's because people just
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lack awareness really, you know, and I mean, you know, with the
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REPD website, which is the renewable energy planning
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database, which I, I've been talking about this now and talk
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for over a year. I would say showing people about
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this particular website, emphasising the fact that these
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are incoming issues which naturally if we if we started to
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look at our own council website, we would be able to identify
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what is happening locally. Yeah, yeah.
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And that, that's why I mean, I think this is such a, a
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brilliant thing. And you've you've had you've
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dealt with quite a bit of things, you know, with, with
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sanctuary cities and all that sort of thing in Western as
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well. I know we've covered this on the
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column and you'd had a good deal of success with common sense
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prevailing within your residents associations, for instance in
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Weston Super Mare. Well, I think, I think I don't
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want to take any sort of credit for this one.
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The so before I met them, they, they were working on this
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particular topic because they were quite concerned about some
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of the implications as to what was happening.
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Now, when I met them, I said, well, you know, if you did work
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as a residents association, it would add, you know, so now
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they've been campaigning as a residents association.
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So the result of that was that they had, I think there was
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about 165 people that turned up to oppose that in Western, which
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is huge. Which is managed to, yes, to
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overturn it because it was in place and they managed to turn
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over the the Council of Sanctuary, which a lot of people
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were concerned about. And every, you know, they have
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every right to the people that live there have every right to,
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to, to put their views forward. And I think it was a, it was a
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way of giving them a voice. And I think that's great.
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The same inception, you know, when the whole council walked
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out, because there were a number of questions that the council
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could, wouldn't refuse to answer.
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And they said, look, we've, we've asked you this question,
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this question, this question, and the whole lot walked out.
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They couldn't cope. They walked out council.
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But not only, not only that we're Liverpool.
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There's more to this story because not so long before this,
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only a couple of days before the council meeting, they, they
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found out that people were walking around with machetes,
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machetes in, in this particular area in Liverpool and people
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with children being followed. And, you know, so, so ultimately
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there was a huge concern for what was happening.
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They, they went out and reached out to people in that local area
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just by using a very generic leaflet and had loads of new
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people turn up to their meeting loads because they were worries
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and concerns. So it's it's a way of trying to
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reach people in order to be able to help.
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Yeah, no, that's fantastic. That's fantastic.
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Now, I mean, how's it all going? Are you are you gaining more and
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more people or how's you know, world, you know, sometimes
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worldwide, nationwide, how many have are there now on board with
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this and and growing or you're not small?
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I'm not sure. I think we are growing slightly
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at the moment. I think it's more, but it's not
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as much as it was initially and I think that's because we're so
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quite knee deep. Keep it in various different
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campaigns right now, ranging from solar farms to battery to
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now data centers to whatever problem.
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And then we've got another lady up in Cardiff.
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She's got a huge tower scraper building going up in this
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Cardiff City center, which is going to be a 50 story
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skyscraper, which is going to dominate the whole skyline.
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So if you think about China 15 minutes, you know, you know.
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Well, exactly. And, and it's, it's interesting,
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isn't it? Because down in, in Cornwall,
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they've got the lithium mines as well.
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There's concerns about that. You know, what lithium is, is
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highly toxic. And what happens if you, if you,
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if you do get some sort of leakage 'cause they're using the
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thermal, you know, the sea, the, the sea, there's, there's
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thermal things going on under the sea there.
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And they're using the lithium 'cause that's where it is, it's
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underneath these, these pockets in on, off the coast of
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Cornwall. And they, they're going to be
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mining it, which they are, they've started already.
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And it used to be the the Cornish mining company which
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used to deal with metals and now they're dealing with lithium and
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that lithium is gonna be travelling through not only
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Cornwall but Devon and Somerset to get to the Gravity EV factory
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which is being built at. Bridgeport at Hinkley Point.
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Yeah, it's, it's, it's not a Hinkley Point.
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It's down at Puritan, down, down by the beginning.
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That's right. Yeah, down at Puritan, so.
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And we've also got a Hinkley Point going on.
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So yeah, but I, I am quite concerned because why, you know,
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we're having, they're still building this massive EV factory
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at Puritan. And you know what, what is the
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point when the car, you know, everybody's not buying these
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electric cars. What, what are they thinking of?
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I, I don't understand it all myself.
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I find it a bit mind boggling because they're clearly just
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going ahead and marching ahead with these plans that are going
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to devastate our country at the end of the day, yeah.
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Yeah. And well you think, you think
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like like what you just said there, you think about the
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digital ID as well. They need data centres in order
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to be able to roll out the digital ID.
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So all of this infrastructure is the long term problem and that's
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why we really need to consider it because it's, it's somewhere
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what number one, where we can actually potentially do
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something about it #1. Yeah.
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And so in in some ways they also use a lot of water, don't they
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using the water resources up with these these days they need
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them for cooling. And that's right.
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There's, you know, at the moment, I don't know if you've
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seen any of the reservoirs locally, but I was down at Chew
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Valley the other day and The Chew Valley lake is really low
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at the moment. And you're thinking this water,
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are they just going, how are they going to, how are they
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going to service these data centres apart from limiting our
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water? And I think that's something
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we've got to think about. Yeah.
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Well, I remember, I remember back in about 2021 they started
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trading water on the London Stock Exchange.
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So you know, water is becoming a tradable commodity, which is
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that that to me was concerning back then, let alone now.
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But yes, so that bit, it's not just that component.
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You think about the electricity usage.
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I worked out it's approximately, I will just, there's probably
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maybe somebody who's more scientifically minded than
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myself, but approximately 1 MW of an outage from a data centre
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would equate to 1000 homes of electric.
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So then I know of a site that's going to be producing 28,000
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megawatts. So you think about that, right?
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I mean, it makes net zero a total nonsense, doesn't it?
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Which has always been anyway, but this really rubs your nose
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in it, doesn't it? It's crazy.
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Yeah, but, but, but again, suddenly people don't realize
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about this. So I, I raise it with the, the
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people in different locations. I won't say where they are, but
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because we're working on, on these projects right now, but I,
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I raised it with them and I said This is why we've got 100 new
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data centers being rolled out nationally, 100.
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Because obviously because of the digital Idi would say would be
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11 component of it, yeah. So obviously, you know, this,
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this, there's so much with this whole digital ID thing.
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I mean, it's, yes, they're having that, that final push to
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get us on, but all the infrastructure's there for, for
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them to, and they've got the biometrics in the supermarket,
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they've got the facial recognition, they've got all the
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apps. You know, your, your, your NHS
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app will link up with your, with your app from your health, you
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know, all, all your health data links up with your, your
20:48
shopping habits with everything, Everything is linked up.
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What you view on, you know, Netflix or your, you know, your,
20:55
your, your smart TV or whatever. If you do watch TV, everything
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is in one place and you've been, they've got all your banking
21:02
details, everything in one place.
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And I suppose this last push to get these data centres to store
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all this data is kind of need. So if we can stall that, if we
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can, you know, it's about being strategic, isn't it?
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It's about stalling that, that inevitable thing and finding
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ways around it. And I think, you know, the
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people at the end of the day are the people with the power.
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There are more of us than there are of them.
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And they don't, they, they just think that we'll just be
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compliant and we're not. It's a bit like the, you know,
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yes, there's a, there's a big March on Saturday, but so many
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people go on these marches and then they go home and think it's
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done, you know, And it's, it's, it's the constant battling with,
21:47
with planning permission and everything is what actually gets
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things done. Yeah, that's right.
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And, and you know, you've got to get, you've got to get people on
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an issue that impacts them because unfortunately, most of
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the people around the country, they're so busy with their own
22:02
life. So what whatever they're doing
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or they've done a bit of campaigning, they're tired.
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People are very, very tired, especially people who are aware
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and awake of this. But unfortunately that doesn't
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stop them achieving what they want to achieve.
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Now. You know, it's, it's very simple
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to galvanized support on a topic like I mentioned with Liverpool,
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what they did there, what we've got with one of the guys up in
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up north, I won't say where it was, but with the battery energy
22:33
storage system going, we had, they had one application going
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near a, a gas pipe and they've also got another one when you're
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the primary school. Now, of course the parents don't
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like this. The national, the press, local
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press, again, they've been reporting on this, you know, and
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these are very serious issues. But these are issues the if you
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reach people, which we've designed all that material to
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try and help people to make it as simple as possible so that
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people can just go out into the general public and maybe do a
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leaflet drop or do whatever. Something to raise awareness
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about this these whatever issue it might be in order to create a
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push back of some description. That's amazing, that's amazing.
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And, and what is there anything at the moment, apart from what
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you've spoken about that is anything that, you know, people
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that are listening might, might want to do?
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I mean, apart from join up with their local residents
23:31
association. Do you think there's anything
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that's on your mind that you think is coming in the future
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that you're you're concerned about or 'cause you seem to have
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a Spidey sense. So it's from what I know of you
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and I've known you quite a while, you've got a Spidey sense
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of knowing what they're up to. And I think this is a real a
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real talent of yours. I do see things weigh in a month
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and those at the time sending. Nobody wants to listen, right?
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So tell me about it. I I've got the same spiding
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sense and I thought, here's a are you talking rubbish?
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What are you on about? Yeah, yeah.
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Nobody, nobody wants to listen. Shall it do?
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Like, you know, I, I think to myself, you know, people talk
24:10
about smart dust now. And I was thinking, I was
24:11
talking about that in 2020, like though now you know, it's, it's
24:15
crazy worry. About, I mean, as if we haven't
24:17
got enough to worry about smart dust is, is, yeah.
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I mean, I've been, I've been looking at that for years
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thinking I don't really want to look at it, but it's there, you
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know, it's there in your peripheral vision.
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And and I don't know. Are you doing anything with
24:30
smart dust? No, I, I tried to pick my
24:33
buttles widely, but my big one that I'm going to work on is is
24:37
drones. Yeah, because, because obviously
24:41
I wake up as I do. I have, you know, prophetic
24:44
visions and I could just see all these.
24:46
So anyway, I don't really want to talk about that, but but I
24:50
knew and I knew and I researched, I thought, Oh no,
24:53
they're coming in with the drains.
24:54
And so I did a little bit of research and I've been talking
24:58
about drains probably now for about just under a year, I would
25:01
say when I want to go out and and talk to people because I
25:06
just don't think again that people realize the severity of
25:09
that. Because if that infrastructure
25:11
is there, then that will hold more things into place.
25:15
Which again, the way that I feel that we might be able to do
25:19
something about this is to stop smart poles because smart poles
25:23
potentially will have drone landing pads.
25:26
So those drone landing pads will then inevitably help the drone
25:31
recharge. Yeah.
25:32
So that for me is, is is a very, very big one.
25:36
Yeah. And I think that that's a
25:38
definite future issue incoming. Well, I I did I last was it last
25:44
week on on UK column? It's a week before it was Monday
25:48
week. I did do a thing about because
25:50
it came out in the press that they they were going to hold
25:53
this big drone exercise over over the whole of Somerset.
25:57
I don't. You probably saw it.
25:58
Oh, on Somerset? I thought it was in Scotland.
26:01
No, they, Oh yeah, they've got Scotland, but Somerset is the
26:03
latest one and it's a big, well, they're starting it this winter
26:08
because they've said now bearing in mind you've got the what was
26:13
Westland helicopters at Yeovil. It's now called Leonardo.
26:16
It's been brought up by someone else and they're really focusing
26:20
on drone technology there and they're saying that they're
26:24
going to roll out this exercise and it's really about and they
26:27
could they've got an acronym for it.
26:29
It's rescue RESCUE. And I can't remember what it
26:34
stands for now because it would be in all my notes.
26:36
But anyway, it's, it's, it's to do with flooding.
26:41
Now, this is what's so really annoying is they want to get us
26:44
used to seeing these things over our skies.
26:47
And they've got a whole load of really top quality zone drones
26:51
made the same kind of drones apparently that they used at the
26:54
G7 down in Cornwall to assist the president coming in.
26:58
And they're very big and they've got big, you know, 4-4 lots of
27:01
propellers. Anyway, they, they've said that
27:03
they need these drones because Somerset levels are going to
27:06
flood and they're going to need to rescue people.
27:08
And it's almost like a, a rescue operation, maybe even we've got
27:11
the acronym rescue. And I've thought, hang on, this
27:14
is problem reaction solution because they are making the,
27:18
the, the, the Environment Agency have already said they're not
27:22
going to dredge the reins or look after the pumping stations
27:25
or the culverts because they haven't got the money.
27:27
Therefore, you the, the levels will flood this winter.
27:32
And then they're then now they're saying, oh, it's sea
27:34
level rise. Well, it's not and it's almost
27:36
the same thing that happened in 2014 where they did use drones.
27:40
I mean, when the levels flood in 2014, again, it was, it was, it
27:44
was the, the neglect of, of the, of the infrastructure of the
27:49
levels for the flooding. And the same thing happened.
27:52
But this time I think they're, they they're going to use it to
27:56
launch these drones and to get a lot of drones over Somerset.
28:00
And the technology that they're they're forging ahead with loads
28:04
of funding from Innovate, which is the, the, the government's UK
28:09
funding arm for technology. And they've got big, big sums of
28:13
money from Innovate and from Deloitte, you know, price war to
28:17
ask it all the big, all the main drony people are all keen into
28:21
this exercise. I'll send you all the details or
28:24
maybe watch. Yeah, watch.
28:26
I would appreciate that because there's something like in
28:28
particular that I'd like to do with the drone, but because
28:31
because there are so many topics, it's kind of everything
28:35
gets a bit delayed moreover than when I would like to, but I
28:38
would love to see that information so.
28:40
We're watching spinning plates all the time, trying to.
28:43
Fighting fires, That's what we are.
28:45
We are fighting fires. That's the problem.
28:48
And the I want to tell you about the other one, if I may.
28:51
It's drunk, I'm sorry. Barricades, they are on
28:56
motorways, they are building infrastructure which is slowing
29:01
traffic down. But the other day I was up near
29:05
Hereford. I went out to do a talk and
29:09
there's a particular road and it goes on for about 7-8 miles.
29:12
Now, this is not the first time I've seen this in the country.
29:15
I've also seen it near Lincoln and various other places.
29:18
And what's happening is they're creating like a little wall as
29:22
you're driving down the road, but you have nowhere to go.
29:26
So let's just say if somebody was injured, had a car crash,
29:29
any of these kind of things, where would people go?
29:33
They wouldn't have anywhere to go, Sandy.
29:35
So it's kind of like you are being merged into single file
29:41
traffic per SE, which is very concerning because that is
29:45
that's happening nationwide as well.
29:48
So again, that's another infrastructure problem that
29:51
might seem molecule to many, but when you are travelling around,
29:55
and I do a lot of travelling around, I see lots of different
29:58
things. There is a little video I've
30:00
created, so if anybody does want to watch it, we've put it on the
30:03
YouTube channel. What's the reason that they give
30:05
for these barricades? What's what's the reason?
30:08
Well, I was. Going to inquire, Sandy.
30:13
Yes, I was thinking about inquiring.
30:15
I've I've written, I've written something and I'm going to send
30:19
it. OK, OK.
30:21
Interesting. Because they did it with smart
30:24
motorways, didn't they? Where there was no hard shoulder
30:27
and people died because they, they, you know, their car would
30:30
break down and then there was no, no hard shoulder.
30:33
So they'd be there with their flashes on and then something
30:36
would drive into them. I mean, it was an absolute
30:38
disaster. And yes.
30:40
Yeah. Awful.
30:41
You think and you think about, you know, we've got a notice of
30:44
liability for smart, smart cities.
30:46
So because do you remember when they first started barricading
30:50
off the roads during COVID, people died because the
30:55
ambulance services could not get to their properties because they
30:58
put these huge plant pots in. And obviously they were talking
31:02
about social distancing and these kind of things.
31:05
But again, it's now this, this, this wall, it's like a, they're
31:09
doing it on motorways, they're doing it on normal roads.
31:12
It's it's like kind of grid locking people, which is for me.
31:17
Concrete things in the middle of the road.
31:20
Yes, yes. Smart motorways when I go down
31:23
to Kent, Yeah. Yeah, they're, they're, they're,
31:27
they're cropping up everywhere. But you think about the cost
31:30
element of that. I mean, the UK have just, I
31:32
mean, they've just done a merger deal with the US for £31
31:36
billion, an AI trade deal. And you know, where are all
31:42
these pools of money coming from?
31:44
Exactly. And it's certainly, you know,
31:47
the we every, everyone is poor now.
31:50
I mean, yeah, we've got this cost of living crisis in the UK
31:54
and in the US, all over the world, people, you know, people
31:56
are getting poorer and the, the corporations are getting richer
32:00
and all this money, there's, there's, there's millions,
32:03
trillions sloshing around and none of it gets to the people.
32:07
None of it, yeah. So it's just that corporatocracy
32:10
is growing bigger and bigger. And it's, you see, they've
32:13
they've hedged all their bets on AI and, you know, if we can
32:17
prevent them from doing all the data mining and storing our data
32:22
and, and using it as a currency or a credit even, it's not even
32:25
a currency, it's a it's using that that credit against you.
32:29
Yeah. I mean, it's we, we need to
32:32
really join forces and, and try and stop or not try to stop it
32:38
because otherwise there's no future for any of our children
32:41
or grandchildren or any generations to come.
32:45
And that's, I think that's what what you're like.
32:48
You're you like you like a Buddhika.
32:50
You're there out there sort of fighting, fighting the good
32:53
fight for the people. I think, you know, it's got to
32:55
be commended. You're brilliant.
32:59
So I mean, what else was I going to talk about?
33:01
Yeah. You wanted to talk about the
33:02
drones because what is, is it price water out of scoop And
33:05
Deloitte have got that whole document, haven't they?
33:09
That big document which I actually did give to my town
33:12
council the night I did that thing that went viral when I
33:16
spoke at my town council and they they didn't believe.
33:19
I mean, they thought I was mad because in that document it says
33:22
that the UK will have 900,000 drones flying over it by 20 from
33:27
2030 onwards. Yeah.
33:29
And that is really horribly scary because they are not there
33:32
delivering parcels. They are there surveilling us
33:35
and and policing us. And it's, it's a, it's, it's a
33:39
complete totalitarian thing. So yeah, I mean, tell, tell us
33:45
what a little bit about about that.
33:48
Document. Well, I mean it's, it's, it's to
33:51
be utilised. They'll probably sell it to the
33:53
general public. As for logistics, we're going,
33:56
you're going to be able to get your Amazon delivery within an
33:59
hour instead of having to wait that 24 hours or you know,
34:03
possibly longer. It's going to be, you know,
34:06
you'll be able to get that within an hour.
34:09
But that then feeds out into the, the police.
34:14
It will they, they've said that it would be utilised for medical
34:17
and and surveillance, policing and crime surveillance, law
34:23
enforcement. So that has been, that has been
34:25
mentioned. But I'm not saying necessarily
34:28
in some cases that drones, if there was a serious crime that
34:32
happened and a drone was going to help, then that's different,
34:35
isn't it? But I think the excess of
34:38
900,000 drones is very concerning because obviously
34:42
that means your privacy will be gone if all of these, these,
34:47
these drones are flying in the sky.
34:48
I mean, how, how are you going to be able to realistically deal
34:53
with that problem? But also there's the aviation
34:56
issue. I know they've made deals with
34:57
the Civil Aviation Authority in order to have a, a, a space for
35:03
these drones, but anything could go wrong.
35:05
I mean it that could be a danger as.
35:07
Well, funnily enough, so the Civil Aviation Authority are
35:09
already building in drone flight paths.
35:11
Even now, as of today, they are building.
35:15
That's something again, that they are doing in in real time
35:18
right now, but obviously that's not being publicized now.
35:21
Funnily enough, there was a drone that fell down.
35:24
I think it was, I can't remember what Tiger drone, but it's quite
35:27
a big drone and it fell down on the motorway not only a couple
35:30
of weeks ago and it caught on fire.
35:34
On a motorway. Yes, in the UK.
35:37
Good heavens, I didn't hear about that one.
35:39
Maybe they can, I don't know. I know it was reported.
35:43
It was reported on, but it wasn't widely reported on
35:48
because obviously you know, more people would know about it.
35:50
But but I, I just, I just know that drains will be a huge issue
35:56
and we will not be able to move anywhere.
35:58
Privacy will be gone, and that is the next incoming.
36:02
Well, it's interesting. Next, next week, I'm speaking to
36:07
Aman Javi, you know, do you know Aman?
36:09
He's in States and he worked in Silicon Valley for a long time
36:14
and he's always said that the, he developed a lot of this
36:19
technology and then realised what he was doing and then came
36:22
out of it and now talks about it.
36:25
And he, he's played, played quite a big part in the agenda
36:27
film, Mark Shaman's film, The Agenda.
36:30
And he's, he's, he's talking about, he reckons that the LED
36:35
lampposts are more dangerous than, than 5G towers.
36:40
He said they can be upgraded and all sorts of, of things.
36:44
And he, he also said they, they could be used as charging
36:47
stations for drones. Do you think that's possible?
36:49
I think that's that could be possible.
36:51
Yeah, I do think that that could be possible.
36:53
And you know, obviously that interlinks with the sensors.
36:56
Now the one the one thing that I learned from Azif Kindly, well,
37:00
it wasn't it wasn't great. I was working on some smart city
37:05
technology things, I can't remember, it was a while ago
37:11
now. But anyway we I came, it came to
37:13
realise that there are incapacitator streetlights now.
37:19
Incapacitator streetlights were used by there was a little
37:24
documentary on History TV. Anybody wants to have a look at
37:30
it whereby the police in America, they would use
37:34
incapacitator laser lights in in sort of flash, flash to to to
37:42
destabilise any criminals if they wanted to kind of shock
37:47
them. Strobe, isn't it?
37:48
That's right. Yeah, that's right.
37:50
You. Feel ill?
37:51
Yeah, yes, it makes you feel ill.
37:53
Yeah, that's right. So in some streets in the UK we
37:58
now have incapacitated streetlights.
38:00
Is that it's really scary. Yes, that's.
38:04
Is that for for civil disobedience?
38:07
For for proud country. I would, I would imagine so.
38:11
I wrote a Freedom of Information quite some time ago now which
38:14
people can go and find it on their channels.
38:15
So if they are concerned about that and they do want to ask
38:19
their council if they do have incapacitated streetlights,
38:22
please feel free to use it because it's on the Telegram
38:26
channel. But I think that would possibly
38:29
be more in cities. I doubt if they'd use it in
38:31
rural areas. I would imagine it's more for
38:33
bigger cities where they they're expecting perhaps civil unrest.
38:39
Yes, yeah. But if people don't know know
38:42
know about these things, how are they going to be able to protect
38:47
themselves from a situation like that?
38:49
So yes, I've seen them in cities.
38:51
I believe that I've seen them in cities, but obviously I've not.
38:55
What do they look like? Are they, are they sort of
38:58
another one of those boxes on the top of a street light?
39:00
What are? They well, I think they're a lot
39:02
bigger that they're a lot they they keep them up really high.
39:08
I think that these ones are, so they're not your normal average
39:12
LED street light that's outside and on all of our roads
39:16
nowadays. They they're, I think they're a
39:18
lot higher. But there are, there is a
39:21
picture and as Eve did a talk on it on my channel, It's, it's
39:24
very fascinating. And and it's very it's it's, I
39:28
think it's very important, yeah. Yeah, so is it?
39:34
I mean, I suppose the good news is that you've got people now
39:38
joining together against all this stuff because it's very
39:42
difficult at the moment because we've got so much being thrown
39:45
at us and, and it's coming from every direction.
39:48
I mean, literally we're all overwhelmed.
39:51
We're all, I think a lot of people are traumatised at the
39:54
moment since yeah, it's COVID actually.
39:56
I think people woke up and then they realised what's going on in
39:58
the world and then all of the other stuff has come at us and,
40:02
and I think people are overwhelmed and it's, you know.
40:06
Do you think that that this is a movement that could really or
40:10
anything else you can think of that's really coming forward to
40:13
do you feel there's a better days are coming?
40:16
Do you feel that we've got any, you know, chance of beating this
40:20
because it is such a massive machine, isn't it the whole, the
40:24
whole AI and, and you know, the digital, you know, the, the, the
40:29
CBDC's, the central banking digital system, everything is So
40:33
what seems so enormously big is there.
40:37
Do you feel that there's a, there's a, there's hope.
40:40
I don't like the word hope, but there's some sort of push back
40:43
that's going to really work. Well, I think, I think that that
40:49
number one, with a lot of people, I think they have been
40:53
not everybody, obviously there's been people that have been
40:57
really active, but some people just are overwhelmed with this
41:00
situation, which is natural. And it's completely
41:02
understandable, you know, because it's, it's an, it's an
41:07
unprecedented, this is, this is multifaceted warfare that we're
41:10
experiencing right now. And you know, people, people
41:13
have been to, you know, post traumatic stress, they've
41:16
suffered with post traumatic stress after wars, and we
41:19
haven't even had that here, but that that trauma can then live
41:23
in somebody's body, right? So it's kind of, but I've found
41:27
in my time that since I've empowered myself and others have
41:31
empowered themselves, they become more engaged and sort of
41:36
like go, well, hang on a minute. And then they say, well, what do
41:39
we do? And I said, well, look at the
41:41
problem in your area, things that you can tackle that you
41:45
know you can make a difference on.
41:47
So when people actually start to see results from things like
41:51
that, that really ignites them to be able to go, you know what,
41:54
they feel empowered and they go, oh, God, that worked.
41:57
And it's a really, it's a really satisfying feeling because when
42:02
because they want us to feel disempowered, they want to then
42:04
bring about the chaos so that we're all at the mercy of the
42:08
World Economic Forum. Obviously we need to be that
42:11
calm within the storm, but we cannot be that calm within the
42:13
storm if we don't know people around us.
42:16
Sandy Yeah, now we know that they're they're probably,
42:19
they're overarching agenda is to crash the banks, create that
42:23
chaos. Look, we've got no food supply.
42:26
What a calamity that would be. But that would create chaos, you
42:29
see. So look, we've got a farmer's
42:32
letter. People could utilise that and
42:33
reach out to their local farmers to show them what you know.
42:36
And we've had, we've heard better from farmers from around
42:38
the country. So we've got lots of different
42:40
templates to help people, but it's about galvanizing people in
42:45
their local area on a topic that might be totally like whether
42:49
it's 24,000 homes that are being built and people don't want that
42:53
in their local area or a data center or the streets are unsafe
42:58
or whatever the topic might be. It doesn't actually matter.
43:02
It's about starting again. And we can't start again without
43:06
the support of people in our community.
43:08
It's it's and I think we are the last line of defense sending.
43:14
We don't. Really have anybody else on our
43:16
side with the people are on there in the whole of this, our
43:19
government against us, our councillors are against us.
43:22
You know, we've got our, you know, and you know, the police
43:25
are against us, everybody is against us.
43:27
And we are in this situation now where we've literally got to
43:31
fight for our lives. And this is a great way of, of,
43:35
of, of getting people united in order to do that.
43:38
I think it's residents association is amazing.
43:42
So how can we, what's the website?
43:45
Just tell us what the website is.
43:46
I'll obviously put it all in the show notes, but tell us about
43:49
your website. Tell us about your, your
43:51
channel, everything. Where can we go?
43:53
OK, so we, you can find us on, well the National Residents
43:58
Association website. We also have a Telegram channel
44:02
where I usually post very regularly on the channel about a
44:06
variety of different topics, whether that's videos that
44:09
people have been to their council meetings or you know,
44:12
what they've done locally, petitions or whatever we've done
44:15
along with other news that's happening locally.
44:19
I have started up an X profile. I've been a bit wins the day's
44:22
call with that because I so I haven't grown that.
44:24
So I need to work on that one. And we've just started the
44:27
YouTube channel because our bit sheet 1 was taken down because
44:30
obviously we're not allowed to utilise that in the UK anymore.
44:33
So yes, we've got and we're trying to upload all of our
44:37
videos that we've done because we've been going since 2022 and
44:41
we're trying to upload them slowly but surely onto our new
44:44
YouTube channel. So people want to check out some
44:46
of the things that have happened.
44:47
It would be a good place to go to.
44:50
That's great. And you've also made a little
44:52
film that you asked me to be part of.
44:54
It was what happens. Oh, well, I'm sure that's
44:56
coming. I know it's in the edit, edit
44:58
phase, but that's all about sort of the lie of, of, of, of the
45:02
renewable energy and all that sort of thing, isn't it?
45:05
Yeah, So what? So they are the modus operandi
45:08
which has been for that film is that we, if people go out and
45:13
campaign and they've got, they've got a solar farm coming
45:15
near their property or battery unit storage, whatever it might
45:20
be renewable energy related. That film is then designed to be
45:26
able to use that and say to the general public, well, you know,
45:28
you can go and watch this film to learn more because the, the,
45:32
the only time people are interested is when it impacts
45:35
their lives. So ultimately, if you've got a
45:38
10,000 acre solar farm, that's right, you know, going next to
45:42
your to your door to your property, you might be now
45:45
interested in watching this mini film to educate yourself and
45:48
educate yourself that you can empower yourself at the same
45:52
time. Yeah, yeah.
45:54
No, that's, that's really brilliant.
45:56
So we've got all those if, yeah, at the end of the end of this,
45:59
if you can send the, you know, the, the links to the telegram
46:03
and the, and certainly your, your, your YouTube channel and
46:07
the website. And I'll put it all up in the
46:09
show notes and yeah, you can, we'll, we'll, we'll get the, you
46:14
know, everyone sort of getting on board with National Residents
46:17
Association. It's a really, I think it's a
46:19
fantastic tool. And certainly I'm going to set
46:21
one up here. We don't have one at the moment,
46:24
but in order to, to battle things, it could be.
46:27
I mean, we've already managed to battle off AI.
46:29
Think it was an 80 acre solar farm.
46:33
We've managed to do that recently.
46:35
And I couldn't believe it. One of the councillors actually,
46:38
his company were supplying me the solar panels.
46:41
I couldn't believe it. So that's, yeah, there's all
46:45
sorts of stuff going on. So yeah, we've, we've got our
46:48
work cut out. But I think you know you, you're
46:51
an absolute warrior, Cassie. And thank you so much for
46:54
joining me today. It's been absolutely.
46:56
Is there anything else you'd like to say or if you think
46:58
you've covered? I mean, if anybody does want to
47:00
get in touch and you want to join us, we'll help you set up.
47:03
We have regular weekly calls. So, you know, we all keep in
47:07
touch with each other in various parts of the country.
47:09
So it's it's really nice. So you don't feel alone
47:12
essentially. So, and I've also seen people
47:16
start just one person and that's evolved outwards as well.
47:20
So don't feel that you haven't got the confidence to do
47:22
something off your own volition. So I just wanted to kind of
47:26
mention that, but thank you for having me today, Sandy.
47:29
Thank. You so much and no to the
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people. That's what I would say.
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Yeah, absolutely so. You've.
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Been It's our country. It's our country.
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Lovely. Well, thanks so much.