Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast where we discuss matters of international,

national and local importance in a measured, balanced and reasonable way to get to the heart of the

matter. I'm Ian Tiny Morris. And I'm Simon Sainsbury. Good evening, Ian. How we doing?

Marvelous and it's been, it was one of those wonderful things where we've been doing the

podcast for a while now.

We've got some friends and some older friends and popped up on my Facebook memories that

it's five years since we first started talking to the good people of Let's Stop Aquit and we've got them back again.

We have indeed and we're also joined with their with their fellow campaigner, one of their

fellow campaigners from Nona Aquint across the channel so good good evening, everybody.

Good evening. Hello.

Probably the best place to start is if you wouldn't mind just introducing yourselves and letting us know how you got involved in protesting against this Barme idea,

which will ask you to explain actually what it is all about in case anybody

that's listening isn't actually or watching isn't actually aware of kind of what the thing is.

So Viola, do you mind just going first and introducing yourself, that's all right?

Okay, so my name is Viola Langley.

And I've been the co-founder of Let's Stop Ackwind.

And in actual fact, it's five years and one months to the day today that we've been fighting this project.

Now, where did it start? It started in the allotment because I'm all lotment holder and I had been interested in what's

happening with regard to the project EQUIN interconnector project beforehand.

I read about it, went to one of the meetings of the company and I felt a little bit unsure about the whole thing because I just didn't like

the way just intuitively what it sort of offered and provided and the way we were talked to

at the meeting and then I started to dig in and to find out more about it and that is when I got really, really, really involved.

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