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2 Nove 2024 i have given this page directly to 4 long term acquaintances all whom hooh hahh about my fairly good artistic conceptualisation (gonzo, alive... risque) but as with everyone in uk

see simonclayton2020.com

no one EVER follows through.. ever

even those i know well...
i give up

two random face to face meets ... here you are... my intuition says BOTH are super special and like a real scrap with the 'universe'..it is laughing at how we have ferked our planet

And i went ALL the way decades ago never used any chemical in my life...

 (except the odd roll up organic tobacco as the rest of y'all drove me to despair 4 decades ago - but i am the happiest person you will ever meet.. the truth - as set out below...lets you free..a 21 year old does seem to know this.. i could support trying to do something with ideas like those below...or you create better ones.. our kids need it there is no hope at all the way we have gone thus far)


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2 oct this page is under development, being worked on in a few days. It is the culmination of 15 years Socratically riffing with MANY  - mainly women, mothers - who CARE about what we have done to the whole ecosystems,  discussing the reality of how we pollute. The REAL version, not the radio 4 version.
100s of conversations, many recorded as an ongoing development of the right rhetoric. getting funny NON pious rhetoric is the first step in REAL eco change...no one does - i study them all.
Almost as in an arthouse movie (i am expert) incorporation the 'making' of the movie into the movie.
Things like bathroom products - increased 10 fold over 30 years (even Fleabag in a scene towards the end of the series is gazing at a bathroom table crammed full of potions). And blokes of course far more obsessed these days about their fancy motor being swanky clean and gleaming. (people IN the environment  - all cleaning causes runoff into watercourses one way or other!  - when i moved out of the SE 30 years ago took pride on never cleaning their motor - better things to do)
Looking for (gender neutral) but REAL symbolic ways in to cause awareness of how we all need to cut back is my many year cause - this, below, to me a great way in  - one of many. 
But there must be humour. 
This page will be used again  - anonymised,  in time,  and repurposed - sent to others,  if the intended recipient is disinterested.
20 years on causes 95% never engage  - water off a ducks back to me.

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Another saudade!! no yellow jackets or danger of death signage

https://www.ralphschism.com/2024/09/it-is-saudade.html

( polish??)


landlope


28 sept


this page will not be ready until sunday 29 sept evening


it is only part written ( hurriedly, in the summer i walk much of the day no time for  nice writing or presentation)


tomorrow i add in 2  short audios one by a woman with a KILLER film (eco)  concept ... 


so simple but so powerful


a few i have run it by - experts i know in film, say "dynamite"


these two matters - scene 1 below...and the core theme  in the audio ( as she tells her short real life story) i shall put here later, could roll into one...


this page is 100% private - not findable without the page url..


no one else has it, yet...

that isn't online anywhere


There are a few audios to add in 


To Mary Moviestar

( I had NO idea of the name of my brief encounter  Friday 9 Aug 2024

"Mary Moviestar" is a term of endearment that Richard Bach gave his partner in Bridge Across Forever.

I always use the term as the Green movement (i was for years deeply within) utterly fails to point out as that book did so well that couples make FAR better environmental warriors.

(no 'moviestar' impresses me - i knew personally one who did once as my brother lived with Mia Sara  3 years in the 1980s and they married - it blew up just after they did - wikipedia is wrong... for 30 years i am ONLY interested in reframing healthier psychologies       in respect of UK families and their children, the environment)



AUDIO friday before 


https://drive.google.com/file/d/18-sWmvXeD85kG3SGBh1zxF5-JK44nzke/view?usp=sharing

 a draft sketch but SO much more to add in on 'saudade' a lifes work of mine - one of a few.


https://www.ralphschism.com/2024/09/hraeth-vs-saudade.htm










From: Ralph Schism [mailto:ralphschism@gmail.com]
Sent: 12 August 2024 14:58
To: info@wildworks.org.uk
Subject: urgent promo op for your Geevor extravaganza

 

( i interview many for my books on wildness - really...i will tell them all)

 

Hello, I wonder if you could please help me. Merely identifying the intended recipient of this message and forwarding it on to them.

 

On Friday last I happened across your acting troupe (I assume) just finishing off the publicity photoshoot for the performances at Geevor Mines from 18 Sept.  

 

They were at a mud pool on the land by Geevor mine. 8 or 10 people – several photographers (with very special looking cameras) and 4 or 5 women  - clearly  the focus of the photoshoot, wearing long smocky things and so impressively covered in real mud.... they know i was impressed (as lifelong intellectual but also actual real wilderness dweller and mud enjoyer)

 

I am a bit of a wandering poetical writerly person, but above all truly a wild man of the hills – farming in  extremely Wildman N  Wales   as a child and young adult… more importantly,  for years wandering the wilder places. (meditating on loss and grief and drowning myself in mudbaths UK so one dimensional and sterile) And trying to write and find interesting things to say…

 

Anyway I was riffing to one of the ensemble upon how the Welsh word ‘hiraeth’ and the Portuguese word ‘saudade’ are different

 

And in fact though a  subject of mine for decades I have studied in a way the ‘wildness’ of living in tune with nature etc., (living extremely humbly like a character from Hardy’s Woodlanders) this scene was in a way is a is a ‘hiraeth’…

 

So,  one of the ensemble really did GET it… I have had these conversations many times but she in her eyes seemed to engage with the subject. (in a real way – I see through falsely lit up eyes -  rather endemic methinks)

 

I want her in my pathetic little 10 min film about ‘hiraeth’ and maybe saudade… or at least to discuss her thoughts over a coffee…

 

BTW a true ‘saudade’: … all my life I (self) educate myself via progressive art especially theatre. I lived 25 years in the true hinterland of Hay-on-Wye and region, prior to the luvvie-class discovering it … we would in fact have great visiting theatre such as Pentabus…

 

I was a single parent and always low budget. I would religiously, from mid 00s, always take my lass to any culture coming to town.. for her..

 

As of about 2015  - that region -  becoming Primrose Hill-on-Wye … ? Gweek-onWye…

Guess what …. the local bands / poetry evenings / community theatre…etc…all went from previously 3-£5..  to £12..to 15. Rapidly..as soon as a critical mass of these incomer ‘Guardian Reader’ supposed ‘community’ focused incomers…took over….

 

Hiraeth is “ ohh woe is us..before the nouveaue yuppie types came, pretending they are out of a Guardian colour supplement… good enough art, was available at locally affordable rates… oh well there was once GOODNESS…  but those days are gone…”

Saudade is….

(to the ensemble as I preached to her in her gorgeous muddy legwear:

 

 “ well I shall not be able to afford the price of a ticket to see you [I have only local humble employment…on the cliffs literally]..":

As I just saw -

“…. Well Jimmy Crickets….  They are charging a FIVER!!!!! .. just like in ye old ungreedy times…it is possible to get GOODNESS .....

back…that is true beauty!!“

 

Serious respect to you!!!!

 

It doesn’t say online (I am true intellectual and have asked many Portuguese in person)

 

“ sauade..[unlike hiraeth a dead word, no Welsh knows anyway all this old culture a myth] …is NOT finished yet..”

 

So, this message please to the 50ish (likely a bit older but I cannot say that in non saudade UK where everyone’s so prickly) year old skinnyish one in her smock… wonderful just resting on her shoulders,  length, greying but very nice natural hair… indeed that’s what caught my eye, just after the mud..the interesting uniformity of her grey - slight silvering but unusual… a dramatically natural gorgeous colour indeed...

(and I write about how younglooking you are undyed..and its actually most attractive..)

Simon 07958 5two6381

simonclayton2020.com

ralphschism.com swampmud bad poetry site

 

REALLY… hardly any one ‘GETS’ this (she did)so i would love to interview her..

 

And it would be a saudade if she gets this as no one cares about communication any more .. and many seem to fear it….and 99.9% no manners to reply….

 so i dont expect one...

But i am serious about ART (and also know a top fundeer woman if you need help)

 

So, thanks for egalitarian access to arts …

I mean it it’s the only answer to the worldwide swampmud of bad art that has  drowned uk for decades….

(my expert friends doth concur)

 end of email.





THE point, and as river environmentalist 15 years i hace been photographing SYMBOLIC ...

reduction of chemical use

and many gorgeous silver grey haired ( ralphschism.com has a few best one feb  march this year
( fleevag scene)


starting 18 minutes 30 in a random encounter on The Track..(SW coastal path - i have a megga chronicle speaking with Europeans  - thats my main film to make but... La Vinagrette.... (occasional anonymous quips in main weirdo gonzo blogsite)

the "sanitary technician"
 

with her mum

file 294 date xxx 
18 minutes 30 secs in (i have no time to edit at the moment i have millions of clips to weave into a collage over 15 years but mainly around the luvvie region of the river wye

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IVme8Ueh3X5U-ysWhIhQFXVSihzIIAhq/view?usp=sharing

mum i want to MARRY adopt she is paradise  - PURE saudade !!!!!!

A MAGNIFICENT film in her story - the cleaning lady (quite middle class, Aubrey Hepburn sunglasses well presented, mum looks like the Surrey sargeant majors daughter she probably is..) subversively undermining her customers..


 an oscar winner in it


Nomadland is appalling (as ralphschism.com often explains the last few months)

.... 

and then a second movie from 37 minutes in the audio

me rewilding despite extreme externalities...


the film i really want to make - loads of footage in my can...


but i need to be a girlie in the film... as everyone in the world hates blokes

THEN 47 minutes in some rather interesting younger ones...


I have run the concept she gave me in this chat by five SERIOUS no bullshit film and high culture people, and it is a perfect staring point to create a REAL film on eco...


(obvious;ly links in with things like avoid the chemicals... bo chemicals.. hairdye etc..i use no chemicals ever, except enjoyed roll ups just to survive humanity..))



 all the worlds a stage video (made 3 weeks ago)- to do

 about how bad mannered folk can be not even sending back a "thanks for compliment, ohh and i think i know who you mean, and i think she's married" email, SO often the case - lack of manners, from the many who colonise small communities from afar... ruined rural cohesion over many years living this   

 

 

 EMAIL TO CARGILL FOODS

long i am in this business. 2 decades. Now ALL the way... (Avara their subsidiary created as these conglomerates do...to divert the legal cases if necessary so Cargill remain fully operant baddies.. CArgill real baddies... may hurt me)


This is about how in THE most media covered  'eco collapse' region... long inhabited by incomer luvvies from 30 years ago-  Bruce Robinson,  Withnail i knew well, to Johnny come latelies,  Monty Don and others.....to Ms famous gardens writer Atlee - i knew VERY well.. as she played with my child at the river 20 years ago..

Now UKs very top most symbolic legal case pro environment...

it is fraud and i will not have it... i will be the most hated 'environmentalist' in UK by the greens as i gradually roll this out further...

but green must equal pure and their legal case is 100% immoral 

links in here go to recorded phone calls - many more to put up, where i have one of many agreeing we need to LEVERAGE them to fund GREAT real media - film plays etc...

i am expert on how the upper class NEED their plays to stab them (upper class own the rivers etc)


i had to leave this region 

(MArches HAy-on-Wye up to Knighton, my 30 years base to begin to write up ALL their sins - the Greens..top intellectual AC Grayling in recoded chat him and i alone..he v v v green...told me i must  5 years ago if it is the sad truth...for the next gen) or i would be actually hurt - including by top aristo family who host Extinction Rebellion but also bulldozed alive (2020) badger cubs in a massive set i have film i made..


etc

 

i will get funding but for ARTY stuff first.. brutal real art to firstly tickle the rich's toes...

whilst at the same time looking for collaboration to create POPULAR material eg Captain Fantastic (superb 'give it to the man' culture) or Full Monty - indeed cross between the two would be ideal...


Full Monty = it is the 'authorities' overlording ones OWN side who are THE real issue ref environment...


Herefordshire - i lived very west Hfds..(by Hay then by Kington)  20 years ago THE most ecologically diverse pristine place in England .. BCEACUSE the 'greens' - there were many - FAILED to fight by the propper channels and stop factory farming AND other domestic development...  the region is destroyed - all rivers up The Marches sterile...

It is because OF the Greens being wet blankets. Up North this would have happened - no more yuppie barns to pollute the river dotcom... the greens would have had solidarity and ensured success... Hay region they did NOTHING and now seek self publicity by a megga legal case ...for money and pride..


not over my dead body

this too makes  a great film, i have many recorded chats with very highup officers and officials of the world of religious bigots who are friends of mine on the morality of seeking justice when the plaintiff did NOTHING to ensure the crime was not committed...

but i dont want to be the star or hero...i need NOTHING...except to see some others being licensed via media and culture to start to explore the REAL truth of eco disaster..here..

(not cornwall i have no back armour here and like a quiet life even if cornwall ALL watercourses 100% utterly fucked )

xx


From: Simon Clayton [mailto:simonclayton@post.com]
Sent: 26 September 2024 17:08
To: 'media@cargill.com' <media@cargill.com>; 'info@cargill.com' <info@cargill.com>; 'aileen_boey@cargill.com' <aileen_boey@cargill.com>
Subject: important info assisting Cargill in major lawsuit

 

media@cargill.com

aileen_boey@cargill.com

info@cargill.com

 

 plus finace

' leverage'

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please forward this to your CEO office and legal office.

They may be most happy if you do.

I attach below an email i sent to Avara Foods UK a few months ago.

I was surprised not to receive ANY reply.

 

In short i have done more work, with colleagues, on the issue and we will be putting the material below into the public domain in the UK most actively over the next few months. My position  is in Cargill’s benefit.

The legal case against Avara (claim for damages by the people  surrounding the iconic River Wye) has received more publicity in the UK (often referred to on the BBC) than any other environmental matter for decades. The most famous ‘citizen law’ company Leigh day acting for the plaintiffs have been mass advertising to attract further plaintiffs. Potentially 1000s.

As a resident of that area – close to that river, for 20+ years that disgusts me. It is blatant vexatious litigation. And i am the region’s most active real environmentalist for many years.

I have not yet contacted Leigh day myself but if  i copy this message  to them it will certainly set off alarm bells. I would imagine cause them to reconsider even supporting the vexatious case.

I add to the initial message below stating as follows.

 

I have a range of public figures known to me  - all environmental stewards or extremely concerned about the environment whom agree with my position (this whole case is immoral). I am a part time journalist of sorts  and have many recordings of discussion on this subject, for  example with Jo Penberthy a well known Anglican bishop (retd) in Britain (the main established church here). She supports me taking this forward now.

And recorded discussion with various figures who work within the UK national Environment Agency (interestingly and relevant highly attractive women in their 30s who are mothers and know that such litigation as this merely diverts from the REAL issues – domestic pollution going into our rivers no one ever even addresses in public and THAT we should put our efforts into)

I have several B list actors and other cultural names who i know will support me.

 

In fact above all over the last few months the ‘solution’ that has organically arisen is the we must make film – cinema, to focus people on how  farming is NOT the main problem in the UK – where ALL our rivers are polluted as the incoming Labour government announced a few months ago  (creaking infrastructure especially water collection) but in fact excessive flushing of domestic chemicals INto the environment  in rural areas where sewerage  treatment is minimal and never designed to process the plethora of household chemicals entering the household sewerage. (UK had a massive flight from the cities from 2016 – middle class white flight. Due Brexit. TO many areas the Wye Valley the MOST popular. Their sewerage has ruined that river as much as any farming).

A second factor being a Total SOP in that the authorities do not test adequately FOR such domestically originating pollutants.

 

These things i and others now dedicate the rest of our lives to somehow highlighting via  interesting engaging media. Even comedy. All  are welcome to help.

 

We will NOT receive any help from any environmental campaigning organisation because all are cliques. Dilettante woke  little Hitlers – they were my people for 20 years. But all only self interested (getting on television). And my own main thrust is making THAT film – showing that ‘movement’ for the effete failures they all are (i have 10 years  of undercover recordings of 100s of them failing to do anything ever but bitch about their fellow group members).

 

Follows the email i sent to Avara.

 

I ONLY deal with anyone by phone + 44 7958 5two6381

0600-1900 uk time 7 days.

 

Refs

 

https://www.ralphschism.com/2024/04/efficiency.html?m=1

 

https://www.simonclayton2020.com/p/wye-mar-2024.html?m=1

 

 

From: Simon Clayton [mailto:simonclayton@post.com]
Sent: 26 April 2024 12:16
To: 'media@avarafoods.co.uk' <
media@avarafoods.co.uk>; 'info@avarafoods.co.uk' <info@avarafoods.co.uk>
Subject: For the attention of the CEO Andy Dawkins,

 

For the attention of the CEO Andy Dawkins,

(by email also - info + media)

Dear Sir,

I am writing to you with reference to the most high profile legal claim against Avara in respect of the river Wye.

In short, as by far the most prominent   and successful legal campaigner resident in that region from 1994, and most focused environmental steward and campaigner from 2007  (a founder member of Hay-on-Wye Friends of The Earth)  if, and when,  one celebrity plaintiff in this case – known personally to me 23 years, reads this email if forwarded , she will realise they have something of a problem. Likely reconsider the whole action. (as will River Action). I am a nationally prominent legal campaigner.  Various Hay connected people know this. I was VERY well known there  - including in person  to the founder/ festival director Florence )

(I am also known to Leigh Day as a legal precedent i took forward is taught on law courses,  and if they are aware of this they will also realise they have a problem).

 

I shall lay out bona fides at the bottom in footnote but in summary for now, although a modest rural  person,  I  am literally 3X Erin Brockovich. Quite alone i took forward arguably the most consequential legal test case the Royal Courts of Justice has hosted this century (staged in 2005-6 – meaning the most powerful Appeal Court judge at the time orchestrated my cause as a “test case” to quote his words in 2005). I also quite alone* caused the Minister of Justice Jack Straw to make a public U-turn  in 2009 after he announced in The House of Commons he was in effect reversing primary UK legislation (in effect – the 06 precedent being at the highest level) in my name.  I do not take prisoners. My 2006 successful legal cause affected the business in more RCJ courtrooms than any other for someyears.

 

 

This communique:  Having become aware of the new case last month frankly i am shocked at the perversity and immorality. I am an intellectual (of ethics among other things) and do not use the word ‘immoral’ lightly.

 

The reason i feel this way is that above all i became an environmentalist as of the mid 00s. (but this was only a return in that i had been brought up by a true committed  environmental steward in a very rural area of N Wales).  I lived by the Wye from 1994 and my own daughter 25 years ago  age 6 months dipped her toes into that river where we would spend all summer (At ‘Hay  Beach’ – The Warren, 2 km upstream of Hay-on-Wye). That summer 1997 there were many minnows nibbling at her baby feet. By her 10th year at that same river the minnows were dying off and as we know by around 2013  the river was on its way to dying – as good as dead .  Many true country people said so often.

 

From 2007 I have been most active in the whole region from Brecon all the way to Hereford, but especially at the PR heart of the region Hay-on-Wye as environmental activist. My role has been among the supposed green, environmentally aware people, attempting to rally the troops to research and lobby  and explore all lawful lobbying and pressure methods to indeed protect the dying river.

 

In short, the growing number of environmentally ‘aware’ people in the region from around 2007, simply did nothing.  EVER. Which is why i feel the action is immoral.

 

I say this as also a ‘chronicler’.  By which i mean as follows: I am a book man. Proper literature and also science. The ‘story’ of the Wye i realised from 2007 was that many ordinary people sought to gain attention to themselves by seeming to ‘care’ about the slow death of the river, but in fact did nothing; and worse, only acted in ways that damaged any possible solidarity among those of us who may have gradually mounted the standard citizenly counterbalance to all development. It is the personal behaviour of people – many my once friends, that is the cause of complete failure to protect this region. I neither (any more) blame politicians or industry, only the ‘people’.

 

That sounds fluffy (and i have no axe to grind). To fully describe those  15 years (my last interest and in fact action in that region was 2022) will take a 5 page essay and a certain amount of going back into my 100% accurate evidence trove of  records of meetings, emails, and many failed attempts at kindling that necessary solidarity. I tape recorded almost all encounters (as a record, and also ‘protection’)

 

In 2019 i met and had a long intimate talk with one of the UK’s most prominent public intellectuals, AC Grayling, in Hay-on-Wye. I chronicle and loosely journalise all and the talk is recorded. He spoke of being very dedicated to the environment (in fact a true supporter of just started Extinction Rebellion) . I told him of my sad chronicle of the environmentalists being disastrous and effete over 10 or more years and he said that this must one day be published for the sake of the next generation.

 

Naturally this is to some extent sad for me.  Total failure.  But on behalf of my own daughter’s generation, indeed truth i feel is far more necessary for them. Is my own crusade. And thus for 5+ years i have been only committed to this ‘truth’  - the river Wye being advertised to the world with emotive photos, in headlines April 2020 as having gone ‘toxic’ (in the Hay region).

 

To summarise my own many years of liaising with the environmentally ‘aware’ in that region, I have only ever encountered, and exhaustingly lived, endless virtue signalling from the middle class pretend  environmentally aware.  But it is their currency; ‘bunny huggers’ displaying performative ‘green’. And all of their Facebooks gradually became their stage. NONE ever did anything though.

 

Indeed the very few who perused any line on the river Wye, -   for example one a many year  close acquaintance of mine, and  5 year neighbour – a rich semi aristo family of the region (involved in politics, her brother the county councillor ), it was if the pinnacle of achievement was to achieve the radio 4 slot speaking about the Wye  - she did 2020.   But all such people did nothing ever to encourage grouping into professional lobbying . And of course from around 07ish every conversation included “Cargill this Cargill that” i am fully aware of the real politique of Herefordshire,   Cargill being a major employer. Many said even 17 or 18 years ago creating perverse incentive for development. I have no interest in that myself. My only interest is recording the facts:  no coherent lawful lobbying to resist by ANY green group.

 

I have been officer in the Green Party  (N Herefordshire Greens most active greens by far in that whole region – Powys, North and South Herefordshire) )  and one only encountered narcissism and complete dysfunctionality. Hundreds of meetings or informal gatherings in that whole region from 2007  not one person ever took forward and mature citizenly  plan to create standard democratic truth to power.

 

I would also add  - though possibly not quite at the core of the legal case, that from 2005ish the massive expansion in tourism and Hay-on-Wye becoming major visitor destination,  and likely doubling of occupancy of the region – meaning some new build and so much barn conversion etc (my father actually INVETED in UK in the late 60s a famous architect popularising this through RIBA magazine), are major factors to the initial Wye destruction well under way by the second part of the 90s. Few wish to focus on this as most make their living from the wealthy middle and upper middle class influx (all stated only about 20 years ago). That subject (among the venal) was always steered away from.  

 

This letter is not some wishy washy polemic. From around 2010 in disgust at the damage to the environment around Hay – the real tourist development going industrial from Hay to Glasbury-on-Wye, I have undercover 2010  film (taken at great risk to myself) of the most protected area (‘schedule 2‘) of the riverbank being industrially mined for free building shingle. Film of 100s of tons being dug up at dawn.  This i reported in to Brecon Beacons National park (three times in fact - the formal  moral eco authority i the region)  and the aforementioned friend to lobby her politician family member.  Nobody acted. I became closely associated with over 5 years from mid 00s, with the primary ‘eco tourism’ site on the Wye  - The Hollybush Inn nr Glasbury, i have a chronicle of only deceit and (often druggy) nonsense, culminating in the period 2010, for a few years me filming and photographing major pollution to the Wye emanating from that very place.  (the owner was a well known scoundrel who was closed down for food hygiene violations after about 10 years)

 

To me as a genuine eco person  - and i have spent  1/3 of my waking hours on only the environment  the last 15 years (especially attempting to nudge alliances forward)  this region is a case study on the reality of environmentalism: that the people pretended to care, virtue signalled, but acted only like headless chickens.   Worse – one knows where  one is with a chicken, this lot acted like snakes. And never maturely organised to create ANY lobby. Only hissed like vipers – at each other, especially me they knew as a real campaigner.  As i would often share with colleagues those years “tom tom drums never actually changed anything”. But they really seemed to believe (only) the ‘fairies’ held the key to the future of the river (“ positive connected energy” – and i mean the middle class yoga type , not the hippy class)

 

Latterly  - from 2022, for 6 months, i became informally involved with the Liberal democrat powers  of the region purely on eco matters  (who knew me from my former legal campaign work, they supported). Their total dysfunction  - attempting to achieve political gain from river concern, whilst unable to ever even follow through an email, i have a chronicle of. 

 

My only purpose is no matter what this actual truth be fully written up and also filmed. I have much informal but  100%accurate journalism of this process over 15+ years. Many recordings of this dysfunction. 100s of hours.

 

You may or may not know that especially Hay-on-Wye IS ‘PR’.  The river Wye has had a lot of BBC attention as journalists love going to hay for a day out. Hay ONLY exists (half a mil rich visitors a year or more) via PR. I am better at PR than them. That’s how i got an ‘unwinnable’ legal change through in 2006. PR.  The theme park that is Hay is a PR theme park. I knew very well the man in charge of the eco side of (massive numbers) Hay Literary festival. He was  a fake. As Hay Lit fest always has been (i had them over the coals by the BBC in 2010 for having their main sponsor as EOS first class only airlines when hosting  MANY ‘green’ talks at £10 a ticket ). I  knew the late super-Green Polly Higgins (founded the ‘ecocide’ law campaign). I asked her at Hay in 2010 to take interest in that region, but all she was interested in was personal glory for her own PR in her atomised personal glory-seeking work.

 

I have a many year catalogue of only fake green politicking in the whole area. Indeed i would posit that Hay became the national centre of fake green virtue signalling. For me (I am 61) now only   telling that truth   is the calling.  The river Wye was doomed a decade ago when these children (many with inherited cash) took over the businesses, and PR of the region. One of many examples, I worked for the founder of major festival also at Hay How The Light Gets in festival – again  designed to attract and cash in from hipster bunny huggers .. i looked after his land late 00s,  where he would unlawfully use  strong (anti bracken) pesticide  close to streams flowing into the Wye  (near Hay) despite it being quite unlawful. After i had counselled otherwise. Eco fraud, the whole area.

 

Harder to get into film or chronicle (though i have a perfect evidence trail!) , the whole region started to sell out – only cash in, i have friends who started this trend!, in ‘spiritual’ wellness retreats etc., all selling their product on being close to ‘nature’ whilst never actually doing anything to protect nature.

 

If my approach to you is of interest please phone me  - 7 days 0600 – 1800 (though i inhabit a region of the SW with poor mobile coverage in places) 07958 526 381. I don't use email much. Phone only.  I wish to DO something significant – all the way, to highlight this absolute failure and fraud.  Urgently.

 

To hear that wealthy people who did NOTHING are suing for millions  - even if not for personal profit (i assume), to me is the ultimate in fraud. I wish the next generation to know of this as salutary lesson.

 

I have far more than this letter meaning my whole life was focused into environmental stewardship for 15+ years   - there are many stories that can be added into this. I have superb chronicling and story telling skills if i sit down and create that. Obviously me writing this to you makes me look very bad to my (ex) colleagues. I have not one second of hesitation.

 

In fact i encountered one  plaintiff on Easter Sunday  in Cornwall – she is a famous writer of books about aristocrat gardens and descendent of a most famous Baronet. To hear her smug  virtue signalling “ yes i am part of the action”  quite disgusted me – i was frequently in her presence from 2005 and especially 2020 – 22 and not once did she ever express any coherent  resistence. Only virtue signalling distress. (and she is very well connected and gets much BBC attention).

 

Of course i support in theory some of the approach River Action is taking nationally , however when i heard this specific suit announced (clearly VERY staged) on radio 4 i was immediately exasperated.  I have circulated a cut back version of this letter to several acquaintances, so my opinions are known by a few (unlikely taken notice of all lost to this new hype). 

 

In 4 weeks the ‘great and the good’ of national press and the luvvie world once more gather for 2 weeks at Hay Literary festival and doubtless the suit will get much pat-on-the back attention. If I am organised i may be able to start circulating a version of this communique into that gathering. I can fairly easily. I suspect it will stop the action dead. ALL involved above all care for (their ) PR above nature. All know i am a nuclear weapon.  Above all to me the use of much money on a fake legal action is the most immoral thing of all.

 

 

My credentials – messy on first look but i cannot lie:

From 1985 corporate pilot to some of the richest businessmen and bankers in the uk for 15 years. I do not waffle. No power impresses me. No games. ( i worked for the chief  debt manager of Nomura who profited vastly from privatisations of public utilities – I’ve seen it all)

I ceased 1997 to become parent, and also a real green over time.  (1997 discontinuing  my professional license as a private act of committing to the environment – no one else has ever done that)

 

https://www.simonclayton2020.com/p/price-qc.html   uk’s most staged legal / freedom of speech (HRA) test case.  Please note that Price QC most respected QC in London  - Max Moseley, Dodi Al Fayad, Galloway, among his top people cases – i feature more prominently than any..Price knew it was a ‘revolution’ as a barrister from Matrix said on TV   https://www.simonclayton2020.com/p/media-on-cases.html (pls note its far more against all gagging orders in ALL law than merely children as it was dressed up as ‘story’)

https://www.simonclayton2020.com/p/media-on-defense-of-clayton-freedom-of.html

battling solo to protect said legal precedent.

 

 

 

 

 

*“quite alone”:  my emails – anyone can see, between myself and Frances Gibb legal editor of The Times 2009 known to me for some years,   show my (solo) work lobbying her caused The times to turn on Straw accusing him of lying to Parliament even if she used the word “hoodwink”. I am no amateur. I go all the way.

 

simon clayton

07958 5two6381

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: simon clayton [
mailto:simonclayton@post.com]
Sent: 30 April 2024 10:19
To:
media@avarafoods.co.uk; info@avarafoods.co.uk
Subject: attn ceo Mr Dawkins

 

media@avarafoods.co.uk

info@avarafoods.co.uk

 

and by webmail

 

I wrote last friday

Attn Mr Dawkins.

 

I continue to develop the stated position of my initial letter among a few with good minds whom years i have worked on the environment. Several authoritative intelligent many year Wye river region inhabitants  agree with my position.I have a private webpage only viewable with this link that adds  to my letter. I shall ( as always planned) be seeking to create articles soon,  and even a book one day ( on years of environmentalist dysfunction). The absurdity of the legal action creates an interesting final twist.

 

https://www.pseudeia.com/p/x.html