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Good afternoon. Yes, you can see the presence here. I'd say there's at least 100 people here protesting against these plans
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We're actually stood now in the potato field as it currently is a current farm where this solar would be
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I'm joined by Richard Tice, Deputy Leader for Reform UK, MP for Boston and Skegness
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Why has this been organised today? Because this is an absolute disgrace
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Lincolnshire is planned to be covered by hundreds of square miles of solar panels
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This is fantastic agricultural farmland. For food security, we need that. No one in Lincolnshire wants all of these solar panels
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And the great lie, the great con has been exposed this week when energy bosses themselves admitted that even if the price of the gas goes to zero
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we'll face higher bills, they won't go down. and that is of course what the Secretary of State
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Millie banned, he was saying there you are you see you can see how unpopular he is
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he's been saying the bills are going to go down they're not, they're going up and it's a disgrace
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we don't want these solar panels, we don't want hundreds of miles of more
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pylons and it's got to stop and Reform UK have said very clearly
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we're going to rip up all of these new contracts from what they call AR7 from this
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year and beyond, whether it's for wind turbines whether it's for solar farms
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battery storage systems they're on notice i've told them very clearly we don't view them as
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valid they will be null and void and the investors and developers invest your money in gas invest it
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in nuclear if you invest it in solar and in wind then you're probably going to lose your money
