Insulate Britain Face Down Their Critics
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Is it possible to grow concrete? This was the claim of a right-wing shock jock interviewing Insulate Britain's Cameron Ford in a viral clip watched by millions. As the much demonised protest group receives its first positive coverage in the aftermath, Cameron joins us to face down the movement's critics: about why they're targeting motorways, whether he worries for activists' safety after enraged motorists attack them, why this form of protest is justified - and what future he fears is coming unless more people fight back.
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| 0:00.0 | So I'm very honoured to be joined by Kamenford of Interlate Britain and also an internet sensation. |
| 0:12.4 | I don't know if you must be sick of hearing about this, but you are literally a viral sensation |
| 0:20.8 | in a clip which has been watched by millions and millions of people across social media. |
| 0:26.8 | Now for those who haven't seen this clip, which you almost certainly have, |
| 0:30.8 | let's just have a little extra act just because I have watched it about 15,000 times |
| 0:34.8 | it hasn't got old. Let's have a look. What do you do for a living, Kamen? I'm a carpenter. |
| 0:40.0 | A carpenter, right. So how safe is that for the climate? Well, I work with timber which is |
| 0:46.3 | a much more sustainable material rather than concrete. I also work with trees that have been cut |
| 0:50.9 | down then, don't you? It's a sustainable building practice. How is it sustainable if you're |
| 0:56.4 | killing trees? Because it's regenerative. You can grow trees. Right. Well, you can grow |
| 1:03.4 | all sorts of things, right? Well, you can't grow concrete. You can. |
| 1:14.0 | See you, Kamen. Still funny every time. |
| 1:22.4 | That's funny. Kamen, you need an Oscar for the dead pan, the dead. I wouldn't be able to |
| 1:28.8 | only have to do that. I'd crack it up. Oh, my word. Do you know what? I think it's funny about |
| 1:33.9 | Kamen. Do you ever watch Jam, this Chris Morris sketch show? No, Chris Morris rings a bell, though. |
| 1:40.2 | Yeah, he did like Brass Eye and stuff. Yeah, yeah. I've heard someone say, is this a Brass Eye |
| 1:44.3 | sketch? It does come across like a Brass Eye sketch, but there's also a jam was a very surreal, |
| 1:49.6 | quite dark comedy series he did. And in it, there is a sketch about people who were, |
| 1:56.6 | I suppose, terminally thick, who were employed because they can never lose an argument, |
| 2:04.1 | because they're so stupid, they don't know, they've lost an argument. And that is exactly what's |
| 2:10.1 | happened here, because Mike Graham, the shock shock on talk radio, you kind of think that he might |
| 2:15.7 | have thought, well, actually, national radio saying, you can grow concrete bit silly. The stupidest |
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