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7 days from 06.00
WORK o do on this improving by Monday 6 May
Including some more emotive content hopefully well written.
temp efficiency sharing-docs page,
1 MAY 2024
VERY QUICK FIRST DRAFT. IMPROVING GRADUALLY
(broken laptop keys and little battery - always takes me time, but this is last act of many years - no more Mr Nice Guy.. things need to be said.)
Having for 10+ years roamed looking for meaningful alliance around environmental matters in The Marches (never possible to cause change alone), at times i almost created new online pages or sites for specific people - to encourage or educate (not patronisingly) specific individuals randomly encountered. Especially in 2020 i revved up ASSUMING, people may at last have time free to ponder what REALLY matters.... slow down and refocus on things like regional environments. ( all ruined in the recently fairly healthy Marches) But the massive amount of time and energy devoted to attempted harvesting of alliances - 99% wasted due 'people pleasing' - or only fey charm displayed, and never any follow through, means my various online writing / info sites are very typo-rich. I am not proud of....
But that's the 'story' - endless performative eco talk... takes up so so so much time (and "community capital") .. even i - often full time from 0530, 7 days a week, cannot keep up with best possible presentation. Bt that changes now.
This page slightly censored, to remain hidden from google
And below - in the last section of this page, an email message that could even damage me... but i sent it...Friday 26 April (after a month pondering).
The purpose of this page is primarily to share that email message as a starting point for one or two maybe future allies, just maybe interested in developing something on it with me.
(it will go far and wide to media soon)
It grows out of two initial pages here:
A few of many conversations about the absurdity, and symbolic immorality, of a major virtue-signalling legal case
https://www.simonclayton2020.
This links to talking the issue through with a fellow believer - a wonderful no bullshit woman who has an organic acre in S Cornwall and sees the bees dying after fields around hee are sprayed.
https://www.ralphschism.com/
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This is a stand alone page, but a culmination of, maybe a new beginning from (because this REALLY is 'it' - i gave up - all supposed eco aware people are as good as fraud, and a FEW wise women i know at least admit TOTALLY failed...) , years of doodling at
https://leftovers2022.blogspot.com/p/dadsites.html
https://www.ralphschism.com/p/my-links.html
Want to join in, collaborate, or even (no one ever has),.... support? - see
https://ralphwalkson.blogspot.com/ ( a funding drive, failing thus far)
I had to leave last region just for mentioning i was writer riffing upon these environmental crimes, and terrible practice, a year ago:
https://dilettanteenvironmentalism.blogspot.com/
(unfinished, will be soonish).
But i build themes, essays, and will focus only on national eco total acedia, on the new homepage of this site, here, https://www.pseudeia.com/
And quite well read - consistently - 100s of pageviews /day, https://www.ralphschism.com/
(best material is from July 2023 - but its obviously a subtle bittersweet travelogue...failed crusade....)
(that was the next phase of my life, the past one https://www.simonclayton2020.com/ being a glorious failure)
BUT THIS PAGE IS MERELY TO 'PRIVATELY' SHARE THE MESSAGES BELOW WITH JUST MAYBE INTERESTED PARTIES. PLEASE DO NOT SHARE FOR NOW, IT IS PRIVATE - ONLY A FEW ARE INVITED HERE AT PRESENT.
It will be much improved over the next few weeks.
video set to unlisted - will change that in a few weeks
Reality of the Wye river and the environmentalists:
But also WHY the 'message' has so so so far to go.... and lawsuit diversions for vainglory, are merely that
post of 29 April 2024 https://www.ralphschism.com/p/24th-super-zen-of-cleaning.html?m=1
has a video 20240424 112646"
"their dumb "ECOCIDE" [ new cleverword 'law']...spraying is never necessary
> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2024 at 4:15 PM
> From: "simon clayton" <simonclayton@post.com>
> To: suz@
> Subject: ultra confidential ON LEGAL ACTION
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>
> ULTRA CONFIDENTIAL
> i will trust you as you like POETRY though i have no idea if anyone in uk ever ever ever means anything or has any values
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> This sums up something i put in motion to show up how, well before you arrived, you arrived in the most eco hypocritical place on the planet.
> it is my duty
> ( new site pseudeia.com will tell the story - Grayling said i must)
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> fwding emails that cover it short and sweet
> i always need help
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> and go out on a limb to trust you not to say a word to anyone there...
>
> as usual i put myself in REAL danger - some far far far more sharp elbowed southerner with a pretty smile than you will gradually be made aware of this
Dear Boch*m,
I hope you are well with this lousy winter weather not quite left us yet.
I am going to forward this to you ONLY – no one else, as king and queen of spurious legal actions (against you in reality – him making you go to law).
I am working on a most famous legal case. Maybe you may be grown up enough to support (no one else i know is in this awful country). Just moral support.
I now became mister ultra baddie (weeks i have sought support no one has a brain in uk any more).
Saboteur of uk's most famous legal test case pro the environment. And no friends even to say good for you well done (its for my daughter of no one else)
BY the way i have NO interest in Cornwall - though remain here. The issue mentioned below - over 15+ years is so so so many ‘real’ ‘friends’ once campaigner or at least faking concern on the environment, became too rude to answer emails or facebooks – that alone destroyed the ‘cause’ over 10+ years (and wasted 1000s of my own time from 2007ish) - i hold no grudges but your daughters generation need to know the truth of how ours destroyed their planet. Lack of solidarity.
This sums it up - message to schoolfriend high up in hunting and shooting – years he fakes being eco concerned (retired 30 year jumbo captain)
Peter old sport
If you read the email below its an email to Avara (subsidiary of ultra baddie Cargill)
As i have always said to you – but you are as everyone else, distrustful and frankly unable to listen to any other human, its AGAINST the bunny huggers. My ONLY project, rest of my life.
I actually love bunnies, but 15 years of utterly fake eco warriors means they’re all for the chop – metaphorically. The bunnies – the waters poisoned, etc.. (obviously i poetically exaggerate but the newts for sure... and all the honey even in Lizard Cornwall is flavored with microplastic)
In writing this email i become ‘for’ the opposition. I will be marked down as turncoat.
I reckon you ALONE would get – the environment, the rivers you love to fish, is too important not to follow ANY moral attack. I am the only person who dares do this and also has THE ‘chronicle’ about what really happened – 15 years of fraud. For 10 years every single moment of the day chatting with many on eco this and that i have recorded always in the background. I am beyond libel.
As you may know (UK being ONLY PR) the river Wye received more mainstream media coverage by far the last 15 years than any other nature spot. This is why the legal case is crucial. Major bbc coverage already. I am SURE they will be already making documentaries showing these brave loyal campaigners as heroic. google one of their pinups 'helena attlee' – the lady referred to in the email. Her falsity is extreme (and vapid need to be seen as heroic for her career when she DID nothing ever) .
I need help. (no one ever has)
This must be done.
Refs
https://www.ralphschism.com/
https://www.simonclayton2020.
From: Simon Clayton [mailto:simonclayton@post.com]
Sent: 26 April 2024 12:16
To: 'media@ava*afoods.co.uk' <media@ava*afoods.co.uk>; 'info@ava*afoods.co.uk' <info@ava*afoods.co.uk>
Subject: For the attention of the CEO Andy Da*kins,
For the attention of the CEO Andy Da*kins,
(by email also - info + media)
Dear Sir,
I am writing to you with reference to the most high profile legal claim against Ava*a 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.
https://www.simonclayton2020.
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
07nine58 526381
