Meet Gayzer Frackman, the voice of the grassroots anti-fracking movement in shale rich Lancashire. Mr Frackman who has legally changed his name from Geza Tarjanyi, is both a professional clown and the most vocal backer of anti-fracking parliamentary candidate Mike Hill. The two not being entirely mutually exclusive…

When he’s not delighting Blackpool’s children with his comic buffoonery, Frackman is a full time keyboard warrior and part time politician agitator. So far he’s managed to doorstep Matt Hancock and accost a startled Ed Miliband at a train station. It’s not often Gaia feels a touch of sympathy for Red Ed..

Astonishingly, Frackman’s antics are paying off. Fracking is still on hold in Lancashire…