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Tonight, is there a violent anarchist cell | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
We?re on the trail of the extremists intent | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
When people start setting fhre to things, vehicles, buildings, that | :00:10. | :00:24. | |
poses danger. Can a nature reserve really be | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
the answer to Somerset?s And now Scotland?s decided, | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
what will it mean for us? I?m Alastair McKee | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
and this is Inside Out West. They?re | :00:35. | :00:48. | |
the invisible combatant cells, From banks to politicians to | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
construction companies, the So who are | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
the West?s extreme anarchists? Police are | :00:56. | :01:15. | |
investigating a suspected... There?s an extreme form | :01:16. | :01:32. | |
of protest plaguing the West ` The people responsible oper`te | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
in separate, anonymous cells with They?ve launched spectacular acts of | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
arson against dozens of bushnesses they accuse of destroying the | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
environment or enslaving society. The police say some of them could be | :01:46. | :01:47. | |
linked to extreme anarchist groups. So who?s behind these attacks and | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
how seriously should we takd them? Anarchists have claimed | :01:52. | :02:06. | |
responsibility for more than 20 crimes across the Bristol area | :02:07. | :02:07. | |
over the last three years. A lot of the claims are | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
on this site. Let?s start by looking at something | :02:12. | :02:27. | |
that happened three years ago. 2.30 in the morning in Henldaze | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
and the fire brigade?s alerted to Eight minutes later | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
and another car in the south They belonged to Conservative | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
councillors Kevin Quarteley Geoff was Bristol?s Lord Maxor | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
at the time. The media reported them | :02:41. | :02:42. | |
as suspected arson. But eight days later this | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
appeared on a website. So chilling that neither cotncillor | :02:45. | :02:58. | |
wanted to take part in this film A few months later in April 201 , | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
a fire here at the East Dundry transmitter knocked out two local | :03:05. | :03:16. | |
radio stations and affected communications systems | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
for the emergency services. A group calling itself the | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
Earth Liberation Front clailed A month later, rail services in | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
and around Bristol were brotght to a standstill following fires | :03:33. | :03:47. | |
in Patchway and Bedminster. Very little detail was reported | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
in the media at the time. But 48 hours later this appdared | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
on a website. It claims they lifted concrdte slabs | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
alongside the tracks and burnt out It?s a pretty detailed accotnt | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
? much more than the media I?m meeting Mike Gallop frol | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
Network Rail to find out. One of the train drivers noticed | :04:13. | :04:38. | |
fight a fire, they mobilised again to investigate and they found the | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
signalling system (can into, it been said party. Once the fire h`d been | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
put out we weren't able to run any trains for about 12 hours. @bout 200 | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
trains were affected, so thd effect was significant and it causdd wide | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
destruction to the travelling public. The language they are using | :04:59. | :05:06. | |
suggests they intend to do this again, does that pose a thrdat to | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
network rail? I don't see it as a threat, what I do see it as is a | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
safety issue should they choose to do it again. | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
During the next 15 months, anarchists lay claim to mord | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
CCTV operators, a church minibus, a Conservative Party club and police | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
August 2013 ` this branch of Barclays Bank in the Brislington | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
The only news report was in the Bristol Post and there was | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
no mention of arson ` just that "a fire had broken out involving an | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
But four days later and this appears on a website. | :05:43. | :05:57. | |
Well, we have a copy of the Fire Service?s incident report hdre and | :05:58. | :06:06. | |
it states the main cause of fire was deliberate and that petrol was used. | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
It also states an explosion was caused by gases | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
It would seem those claiming responsibility are credible. | :06:14. | :06:23. | |
And last summer, anarchists calling themselvds the | :06:24. | :06:24. | |
Angry Foxes Cell said they set fire to a ?16 million police building. | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
Andy Bevan is the investigating officer. | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
The most outlandish attack so far was the burning down | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
of the police firearms training centre in Portishead. | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
What can you tell us about your inquiry into that? | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
Numerous lines of enquiry were pursued in relation | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
to that investigation and that investigation remains open. | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
It is potentially linked to the other attacks as well | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
and that is a line of enquiry that I?m pursuing in relation to | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
But someone knows about these attacks and I urge | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
whoever that is to come forward and provide us with that inform`tion. | :07:06. | :07:13. | |
The police centre was just one of a number of attacks last year. | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
CCTV units and owners of 4x4s were also targeted. | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
A number of groups have clahmed credit for these on the intdrnet. | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
One of them is the Earth Liberation Front. | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
To find out who they are we need to look across the Atlantic. | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
Leslie Pickering runs a bookshop in Buffalo, New York. | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
In the 1990s he was the spokesperson for the ELF. | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
It?s an underground organis`tion with a set of rules that works | :07:39. | :07:47. | |
What sort of people are involved in America? | :07:48. | :07:55. | |
People who care deeply and passionately about the environment | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
and at the same time recognhse that the mainstream legitimate w`ys to | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
work for social change and environmental justice are not having | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
Does that mean anyone can act in the name of ELF? | :08:09. | :08:19. | |
Anyone who?s willing to takd the kind of risk. | :08:20. | :08:29. | |
Do you think the crimes comlitted in and around Bristol... | :08:30. | :08:38. | |
It looks like it, yes. One of them was an attack on a commuter line? | :08:39. | :08:54. | |
Was that a success? Some people were inconvenienced on a train, H am not | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
going to cry about it, I am too busy about the world being destroyed and | :08:59. | :09:00. | |
what the banks are doing. The ELF was once branded by the FBI | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
as the most serious domestic So what do our police think | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
about this? The Oxford Dictionary definds | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
terrorism as "the unofficial or unauthorhzed use | :09:12. | :09:13. | |
of violence and intimidation But as I?ve said it is a kex line | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
of enquiry because someone is linking these | :09:16. | :09:27. | |
attacks and putting posts online. However, | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
I can?t discount the fact that this could be a smokescreen for something | :09:34. | :09:35. | |
else so I?m not just saying my focus No, there is quite clear legislation | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
that deals with terrorism. These are acts of criminal | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
damage whatever the motive hs. What?s being claimed online | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
gives me that line of enquiry. Over the years dozens of crhmes have | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
been claimed online by anarchists. They say they?ve firebombed car | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
dealerships, a construction company, a magistrates? court | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
and even a Royal Marines base. It?s one thing to claim somdthing | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
on the internet We?ve established some | :10:17. | :10:18. | |
of the claims are credible. They must have been carried out | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
by the people making them. The police say it might not be | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
terrorism but the culprits could be part of an extremist grotp | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
that pose a significant thrdat. Here in Steart Marshes, | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
the landscape has changed more in the last fortnight than ht has | :10:38. | :10:47. | |
done for centuries. A new nature reserve has bedn born | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
but, as Amanda Parr has discovered, Last winter?s heavy flooding brought | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
our flood defences Especially for the residents | :10:54. | :11:02. | |
of Somerset, who watched in horror as thd Levels | :11:03. | :11:11. | |
were inundated by huge volules of But while there has been a public | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
outcry over the lack of funding for dredging, just a little further down | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
along the River Parrett thex are planning to tear down the ddfence | :11:20. | :11:21. | |
walls and invite the water hn. In a just | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
a few week?s time this embankment will be bulldozed, allowing | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
the tidal flow of the Severn river mouth to inundate what was once | :11:29. | :11:30. | |
farmland and transform it into So I?m here to find out why the | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
defences are coming down after one By removing the river wall `t Steart | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
they will allow tidal floodhng into an area that will be contained | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
by improved defence walls. The works are required | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
by EU law to replace the protected saltwater marsh that | :11:55. | :11:56. | |
is being lost due existing defences But, at a price tag of ?21 lillion | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
pounds, many have been iratd So I?m finding out more | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
from site manager Tim. So, what would you say to pdople who | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
may have been involved in the last floods and think that | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
this money spent here could be better spent elsewhere on rhver | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
dredging or something like that Well, in terms | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
of sustainable management, xou need to look very far into the ftture and | :12:23. | :12:24. | |
dredging is part of that answer It has to be | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
in order to protect properthes when we have such a large alount | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
of water coming into the system This about being able to protect | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
people and property along the And so, in terms of flood | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
defence benefit, it has been But it?s not just the cost | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
that has been controversial. A new nature reserve may benefit | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
the local area but this is fertile farmland that is | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
being given over to the watdr. The farmers have been bought out | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
and have moved on. But one man is still holding | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
on to to his farm on the peninsula, so I?ve come to see what he makes | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
of the plans for Steart. So how did you take | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
the news then that all of this landscape was going to be changing | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
and so was your livelihood? I?m mean, | :13:17. | :13:25. | |
taken all the years to build it up. I started off around here whth | :13:26. | :13:33. | |
about 45 acres I?d like to have brought | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
a young farmer into it. But these days, you know, there s | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
not the room for small people. There are plans to use cattle | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
for conservation grazing on the Steart reserve in thd summer | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
months but, for a small`holder like Henry, losing such productive land | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
is still a bitter pill to swallow. Whatever concerns there may be over | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
the loss of valuable farming land, the scheme will go ahead to comply | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
with EU laws. So what can they expect to happen | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
at Steart Marshes? Here at Bleadon Waters they | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
completed a similar scheme 05 years Tim has bought me to Bleadon, | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
near Weston`Super`Mare, to see a saltwater marsh habitat | :14:12. | :14:20. | |
that was created during the So, how did it all come abott, what | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
was the reason of setting it up There were multiple reasons | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
behind it. I think there was looking | :14:31. | :14:32. | |
for some flood alleviation `nd Wessex at the time also was having | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
a major building project here to And as you can hear | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
there?s wildlife here. You can hear the skylarks shnging | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
in the background. There?s wildlife here that really | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
was not here before So while the farming function is | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
important I think there is room for this too in a small way | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
along the estuary banks. So do you think this is | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
a fair representation of what it might like sound like, | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
feel like, look like when you walk We?ve got 13 hectares here `nd | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
in the region of about 300 hectares of intertidal | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
habitat will be created at Steart. So you can imagine this on that | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
size, its going to be phenolenal. The wildlife is clearly thrhving | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
at here at Bleadon, so what are As the salt water transforms | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
the area, the plant species will adapt and the marsh will begin to | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
attract a diverse range of species such as otter and water | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
vole and provide a haven for The preparations | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
for the transformation have been going on for five years | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
and Alys has been responsible We are spoilt with their enthusiasm | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
and they?re happy to get mucky So, this is something | :15:47. | :15:54. | |
for you future, isn?t it? Because this is something that will | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
really change the environment here and yot?ll see | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
it from the very beginning. You?ll see the area | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
and see it develop and flourish That?s exactly | :16:06. | :16:07. | |
the reason why we are doing this. Because its really nice to be able | :16:08. | :16:09. | |
to help out and then come down. So this is all going to grow up | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
its going to be lovely being able to come down and look at it, | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
see it all. The local community certainly seems | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
to be getting behind the project and making the most of | :16:20. | :16:21. | |
the opportunities to get involved. How does it make you feel sdeing | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
it all come together like this? I still can quite believe that I?m | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
at the beginning Every day there is something new | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
happening and you start vistalising and picturing what you?d | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
like it to look like and, ydah, got great people to work with, | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
brilliant volunteers and I think it So I?m looking forward to | :16:43. | :16:44. | |
the next few years. And there?s not long to wait, | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
as the Parrett wall breach hs finally completed | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
during the lowest tide of the year. Now all that?s left for Tim and Alys | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
to do is to wait for the water. It's one | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
of those moments where you feel They?ve extended | :17:01. | :17:02. | |
the creek system out So | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
the next high tide is actually going It?s a really exciting | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
moment just to see it. Just | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
because we?ve been talking `bout it for so long, we?ve been looking | :17:18. | :17:19. | |
at drawings and pictures of what the breach is going to be looking | :17:20. | :17:21. | |
like but to obviously have ht in It?s the first step towards Steart | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
Marshes and the creation of the salt habitat that we are | :17:26. | :17:38. | |
trying to restore here. It takes just eight days | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
for the tide to come and the waters to flood into | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
the UK?s brand new saltwater marsh. Almost half | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
a million cubic meters of e`rth have been moved over the period of three | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
years and after today?s high tide more than 4 million cubic mdters of | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
saltwater have flooded the reserve. It?s taken them five years to get | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
this far but, for Steart Marshes, the transformation is only just | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
beginning. So, how does it make you fedl | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
just looking at this right now? You?ve been working so hard | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
on this for so long. It's brilliant just to see | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
the tide come in through thd creek. The transition | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
from it being a construction site to a fantastic nature reserve | :18:23. | :18:24. | |
for wildlife and people is just You can see the silt deposits | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
on the grass already, and already we?ve seen an increase in the amount | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
of birds visiting the site. Just to be here to witness | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
the changes that will be happening over the next few years is | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
massively exciting. Does standing here and lookhng at | :18:39. | :18:40. | |
what you?ve achieved to datd make you feel as if you?ve got something | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
positive to show people who were I think there?s been a lot | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
of apprehension. What we are finding is people are | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
coming onto to the site, whether they feel mostly a positive | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
reaction, but even if they `re curious and they seem to understand | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
the process that we are tryhng to achieve in creating a saltw`ter | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
marsh and why we are doing ht. It's been a massive transithon | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
in terms of that sort of concern to a sort of 99% support | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
of what goes on here. And it's lovely just coming out | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
on site and actually listenhng to people and that enthusiasm | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
from them about what?s happdned Whether you were for or | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
against the scheme at Steart, With all the cost, | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
controversy and effort that has gone into creating this huge new reserve, | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
those behind it hope that it will enrich and protect the peninsula | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
for many years to come. Charlotte Callen's been looking | :19:35. | :20:15. | |
at the consequences of Scotland s Built nearly 200 years ago, | :20:16. | :20:17. | |
it acts as a gateway between us in the West of England and | :20:18. | :20:27. | |
our neighbours over here in Wales. Nestled on the border, Chepstow is | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
a town that bears the scars of the This castle was built by William the | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
Conqueror to keep the Welsh at bay. 1,000 years later, | :20:35. | :20:42. | |
our union is still strong. But here on the borders the | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
so called devolution revolution has You just have to take a walk up the | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
high street to see it in action What is different for you shnce | :20:53. | :21:11. | |
devolution? The main criterha is the abolition of prescription charges. | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
If you bring in an English description instead of a Welsh one, | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
we have to make a prescripthon charge. What kind of tensions does | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
that calls between your Welsh and English customers? It is always seen | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
as a grievance. Why can't I get it free? | :21:35. | :21:36. | |
And the differences don?t stop there. | :21:37. | :21:38. | |
Welsh schools have stayed comprehensives rather than turning | :21:39. | :21:40. | |
And students here in Chepstow save a packet when they go to unhversity | :21:41. | :21:50. | |
They could live hundreds of metres from each other and play colpletely | :21:51. | :21:59. | |
different fees. Those tensions could become even bigger. For those | :22:00. | :22:07. | |
seeking independence for Scotland, they may have lost their battle to | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
become an independent nation, but they won a promise to have lore | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
powers over things like tax`tion and the Welsh want some of thosd powers | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
to be devolved to them as wdll. This will be a constitutional gale | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
changer. They want to bury their tax break and have greater control over | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
devolved areas of policy like police and Braille and buses, etc. Is it | :22:34. | :22:45. | |
time for us once again to t`ke on the battle to demand our own English | :22:46. | :22:46. | |
Parliament? Well, | :22:47. | :22:57. | |
you can?t get more English than Over the border in one | :22:58. | :22:59. | |
of the many tea rooms in Bath, he tells me how pleased he is that the | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
United Kingdom remains together But he?s not | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
so happy with the promises I think it was unfortunate that a | :23:08. | :23:19. | |
promise was made to Scotland in the heat of the campaign, withott | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
digging through their ramifhcations. It was a dash mistake by all of | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
them. The Prime Minister calpaigned very well. His central mess`ge was | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
that the English needed the Scots and please would they say, H think | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
that was the right message. But all we hear now is devolution. | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
Absolutely. I think the panhc of the Better Together campaign in the | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
later stages was not properly thought through but is now has to be | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
delivered upon. That means tax`raising powers that apply only | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
to England, it means Scottish MPs not voting on the health service, on | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
education, on any other devolved matters. I did think it means | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
regionalism. Artist may devolve power to local councils basdd on | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
historic counties. I think people do have an affinity for Somersdt. For | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
us in the West Country, will we get our own Parliament? I think England | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
needs tax`raising powers. I don t view myself as someone from the West | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
of England, I am from Somerset, I am English, and I am British. H don't | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
have interesting regionalisl. Wessex went out in the 10th centurx. You | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
can't go back 1000 years or more to dig up regions of England. The | :24:40. | :24:58. | |
Wessex region is think he is wrong. These things don't meet to be | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
decided at an all UK level. Some people would say that for what you | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
have been proposing is maybd a little bit crazy, are you now being | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
proved right? Everybody is not when new movement starts out. Thd SNP | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
were going for 40 years before they made an impact at Westminstdr. The | :25:19. | :25:26. | |
problem for dubious people don't really identify with the Wessex | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
region. We are very much in favour of local government, with not want | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
to see a regional government set up at the expense of the local | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
government. We respect very much the Shire identities and the local town | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
and city identities but there are some big issues like transport, | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
Highbridge occasion and the overall planning of the health servhce that | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
might be better down to reghonal level. | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
Wessex regionalists. Outsidd City Hall in Bristol, the flags | :25:57. | :25:58. | |
Mayor George Ferguson thinks it s time for Bristol to join with | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
their neighbouring authorithes to create a city region. | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
I?m fighting really hard for greater devolution. | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
That is real devolution. Devolution in our cities and city regions which | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
are much worse at the peopld. In fact I think state devolution is | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
another form of centralism `nd it will always be focused on the | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
capital. What I am arguing for is that our cities can bring more to | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
the UK economy if you give ts more broke. | :26:31. | :26:30. | |
But back in the tea rooms, not everyone agrees with hil. | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
George Ferguson is not going to be the First Minister for the West | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
then? He is welcome to stay in Bristol and do what he does in | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
Bristol but she is not to bd the great man of Somerset. We are a | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
separate and independent cotnty and we don't need to be run by Bristol. | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
We don't want to be run by Bristol. City regions are a bad idea for | :26:58. | :26:59. | |
rural areas. So will devolution, in whatdver form | :27:00. | :27:01. | |
it takes, mean we?re better off The British economy is to London | :27:02. | :27:16. | |
centric. It would thank sense if it was rebalanced more to the regions | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
and the South West in particular. But I cannot say right now that it | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
would end up better because it depends who is doing it, how they | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
are doing it and what they `re spending the money on and that is | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
not known at this point. Is there a danger that we will end up with the | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
political system that is worse than what we have now? It is likdly to | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
become unwieldy. The initial votes for English issues is going to | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
create a tension between thd UK Government and the English votes. | :27:47. | :27:53. | |
The UK Government may not command an English majority and therefore may | :27:54. | :27:57. | |
not be able to get major parts of its programme through. So, we could | :27:58. | :28:00. | |
end up with a worse situation than we have now? We could end up with a | :28:01. | :28:06. | |
more complex situation but `t least we are one country. I think it would | :28:07. | :28:09. | |
have been a tragedy had we separated. | :28:10. | :28:10. | |
The devolution revolution is already underway, the armies are lining up, | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
but it will be many months, even years, before we?ll know | :28:15. | :28:17. | |
which side of the bridge yot?ll be better off living on. | :28:18. | :28:20. | |
Well, that?s it for this wedk but if you?d like to keep | :28:21. | :28:23. | |
in touch with us or have a story you think we should be looking hnto you | :28:24. | :28:27. | |
But, from here at Steart Marshes, thanks for watching and goodnight. | :28:28. | :28:37. | |
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