'You're supposed to protect us!' Furious protester orders Keir Starmer to visit 'poisonous' landfill site

Around 100 concerned locals gathered and slow marched towards the Jameson Road landfill site in Fleetwood in demonstration against the site.

For the last two years, local residents have been begging for somebody to try and stop the stink that's coming from the site, which is causing them "bleeding noses, headaches and sickness".

Speaking to GB News National Reporter Sophie Reaper, Ms Rowe delivered a stark message to the Prime Minister, urging him to "smell what they have to on a daily basis".

She said: "Mr Starmer, get up here and smell what we have to smell on a daily basis, come and smell what we live through. It's disgusting. It's poisonous.

"The kids of this town, God knows what's going to happen to them. They go to school and get nose bleeds, they feel sick, people are frightened to come out."

Taking aim at Sir Keir, the campaigner fumed: "Mr Starmer, come to Fleetwood. Come and see what you're supposed to be doing for the people of this country.

"You're supposed to protect us. You are not protecting us in any way, shape or form. We need your authorities to stand up for us, and Mr. Starmer, if you don't get voted in again, it is your own fault."

Asked by Sophie why the protest is important for the community, Ms Rowe declared that locals are "damn sick" of the "abomination" that is impacting their town.

She made clear: "Mr Hornshaw is the manager who runs the place. He couldn't run a bath, let alone a landfill.

"That's why all these people have come out to protest about being poisoned by this stench, we've had enough.

"We just want Transwaste to pack up their trucks, pack up their diggers and go away. I don't care what you say, we are being poisoned, it's not right."

Joining the protesters outside the site, Labour MP for Blackpool North and Fleetwood Lorraine Beavers stressed that the smell has been going on for two years, and the residents "have a right to breathe clean air".

Ms Beavers told Sophie: "The smell goes away for like three to six weeks and then it's back again.

"We have got the right in this town and surrounding areas to breathe cleaner, and we've not had any cleaner or been able to rely on clean air for well over two years.

"Last weekend, just overnight and into the next morning, there was 800 calls to the Environment Agency about the smell coming from this place. It's an absolute disgrace."

The MP warned: "We've got summer coming, Spring is just starting and we want to be able to go out there and breathe cleaner."

Questioned by Sophie on what action she has taken to bring the Government's attention to the issue, Ms Beavers told GB News that she will be writing to the Prime Minister, urging him to visit the site.

She said: "I spoke in Parliament yesterday, I'm working with ministers, and I'm working with other MPs that have got the same sort of problems with mine.

"I will ask the Prime Minister to come down here and and to see what's going on. I will send a letter next week and I'll ask him to come down."

Hitting out at the operation of the site, Ms Beavers concluded: "This is like criminal activity on steroids. These people are coming into landfills, making lots of money, destroying the environment and communities and then going away.

"I'm frightened that that's what's on Transwaste's plans. We want this smell going away.

"The whole community cannot breathe at times, and so I'm stood in solidarity, and I'll continue to fight. I'm not going away. I stand with my community. We need this."