We need to try to motivate the local community, if there had been 2,000 people here today this would not have happened.
Those were the words of man from Cottingham, who was at the Crawberry Hill site this Saturday when the bailiffs moved in to evict protesters and remove the tower that was on a local farmer’s land.
Travelling from Cottingham to Walkington he took time to speak to HU17.net as the events unfolded in front of us.
“What you are seeing is the corporate agenda, just look you can see it happening all around you, and it is to the detriment of the local community.”
“The police say it is their job, the bailiffs say it is their job everybody is happy to take money and prepared to sell out the quality of water and destroy local communities just for money.”
“Working in social services, we often try to get the police to respond, but they are not interested, but you can see the resources are unlimited and they will throw as much man power as the corporate’s dictate.”
“My council tax is going towards paying for this. It makes me feel I am being robbed to help service what is a corporate agenda.”
“The farmer is obviously doing this for personal gain. I would imagine in the local community, he will become some sort of social pariah if not now, then certainly in the future when everyone knows what is happening.”
“Fracking will be a major topic in the elections in May. The topic is gaining momentum, and it is all negative for the fracking industry, and I think it will have an impact on a national and local level.”
“Local councillors need to be switched on and start to listen to what people want, the local media need to make people in their community aware of what is happening.”
“Politically it is not about Labour or the Conservatives it is a corporatist agenda, governments and local councils are in the pay of the corporate, what you are seeing here today in Walkington is a small part of a global issue.”
“We need to try to mobilise local support and get more people to turn off their TV’s and pay attention to what is happening around them.”
“It is a number’s game, if more people were here, then none of what you have seen today would have happened.”
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