They think it's all over (SPOILER! It's not!)
Pompey Politics Podcast
Simon Sansbury and Ian 'Tiny' Morris
5.0 • 4 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
On behalf of Let's Stop Aquind, we hosted a public meeting with key speakers from across politics and two sides of the channel.
What is the Aquind interconnector? It’s the controversially funded and designed plan to connect the UK and French electricity grids with a cable across countryside, farmland, parkland and through residential areas from Normandy to Lovedean, digging a trench along congested roads in Portsmouth on the way.
Speakers:-
Cllr Steve Pitt - Leader Portsmouth City Council
Suella Braverman MP - Fareham & Waterlooville
Cllr Antonia Harrison - Havant Borough Council
Cllr Martin Tod - Leader of Winchester City Council
Yoann Collin - President of Mayors, Normandy, France
Donald Brument - President of Non à Aquind
If you'd like to find out more about the campaigns on both sides of the channel:-
Let the planning inspectorate know what you think of the project:- aquind@planninginspectorate.gov.uk
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast. You join us this evening for a special event. |
| 0:06.3 | We are joined by friends of the podcast from Just Stop Aquint and Nonna Aquint to review the way that their whole movement is going and to bring everybody up to speed with what's going on once or for all. |
| 0:20.7 | I'm Ian Tiny Marks. |
| 0:21.9 | And I'm Simon Sandsbury. |
| 0:23.5 | Good evening and welcome, everyone. |
| 0:26.2 | So without further ado, we're welcome in our guests. |
| 0:33.2 | We've got guests from across the South coast in England and across from the Normandy |
| 0:38.9 | coast in France. |
| 0:40.5 | So good evening, everyone. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm welcome. |
| 0:42.6 | Hello. |
| 0:42.8 | Hello. |
| 0:43.4 | Thank you very much. |
| 0:44.5 | So I will introduce each guest as each person speaks. |
| 0:51.5 | Hopefully you had a chance to have a bit of a look at the lovely uh, the lovely video, which we'll share in the links in a minute, um, showing the route as into, um, into Portsmouth, um, that's, um, that's, um, I will first let, um, co-founders of, of, of let's stop at Quinn Aquind, Viola Langley, |
| 1:13.2 | if you wouldn't mind kind of explaining what Let's Stop Aquin is about |
| 1:17.7 | and what the project is about. |
| 1:20.4 | And then after yourself, we'll also hear from other co-founder, |
| 1:24.2 | Hurt Paulus. |
| 1:24.7 | So welcome, Viola. |
| 1:27.0 | Yeah. Hello, everybody. First of all, I would like to express a big |
| 1:31.2 | thank you and express my gratitude to everybody who's helped so far to stop the project, |
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