Ep. 47 Ian Botham 'Beefy' "I'm a country boy"

Well, you spent your career concentrating on 22 yards of grass.

Nowadays it's considerably more.

Yeah.

I'm getting a little bit fed up.

with people from the Islington Pavement Warriors telling us what to do up here in the countryside.

And to be quite honest, if they had their way, it would be completely buggered.

It would be terrible.

We've got Hope Moor, and a lot of other moors are under threat.

On the 11th, we've got a five-mile walk across the moor to make even more awareness.

They're going to put 200-metre-high wind turbines.

You can see at Hope on Hope Moor, if you look to your left, you can see Whitby.

And if you go the other way, you've got the Lake District and you've got the West Coast.

Yeah.

so why on earth you know they don't work let's put everything in respect they wreck everything their lifespan is only 20 30 years then they bury them somewhere in the moor the peat bogs have been take have taken thousands of years to to come to the standard they are they are so so important to our environment.

I get all these people saying, well, this is the way to go.

It's not the way to go because there's no storage facilities.

They are going to have to build a complete cement factory with roads across them all.

Disgraceful concrete roads.

The villages, I mean, those houses go back many, many years, and they haven't got the weight of that stuff being taken through.

It's going to be 60, 70 bloody tons.

It's going to be enormous.

They say it won't, but I don't see how else they're going to get those things up there with a lot of big trucks.

They're building roads.

I'm sorry.

If you want those wind turbines, we'll give you six, and you can put them in Hyde Park.