Shiv Malik

I've lived probably a year and a half of my life in Suffolk over both the pandemic for writing books and all sorts of things.

That's true.

I'm just going to say, yes, it's true.

But at the same time, it turns out you can, when you really kind of drill down into it, it turns out we can give water to vegetable farmers elsewhere in Suffolk and start to increase productivity.

Farmers don't need more land to be more productive, right?

If people are worried about food security, the answer isn't never build over any agricultural land.

You've got to be more inventive than that, and we can be.

It would be if it was a private development, but it's not.

We're asking the government to actually build this.

There's no way you could do it.

So the government's got to find the 45 billion?

Ultimately, our job is, as this private company, ACDC, right, to kind of... By the way, there's a bunch of other people also doing infrastructure projects in this way.

They're just fed up.

ACDC... It's the name of the company.

It's the Albion City Development Corporation.

We set it up back in September time.

Yeah, you know, a bit of kind of rock and roll, I guess, too.

It was the best name we could come up with for what we were doing, I guess.

There's a bunch of other people also wanting, desperate to see Britain build infrastructure, right?

And they can't get planning or the civil service or, you know, the National Infrastructure Board to kind of do anything, right?