you got involved wiwas sellafield as it is now.as it was sellafield as it is now.rovide for part of the country? >> about 27,000. there's about 80,000 nuclear in the 80,000 nuclear workers in the country. those country. and of those about 27,000 area. 27,000 work in this area. nobody's does nuclear better than we do in west cumbria. we've got seven reactors. nowhere else is there that concentration of reactors and all of the processes around, not just sellafield, but also the supply chain as well. and that's why we have such a high average wage. but coupled with the fact that we also have relatively affordable houses, the average house price is about 310,000. ours is about 155,000. it's a good place to live. >> yeah, well, you could get a flood of people now moving in after those comments and you might not be thankful. >> i don't know, because the worst thing for our area is actually we are the fastest decline in population in england, declining a rate of england, declining at a rate of about 5. >> and even more scarily is the fact that barrow is the second fastest

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energy is a big issue here eamonn, because most of the industry in this area is centred around the sellafieldor steel production as opposed to power generation. the people that i've met and spoken to so far in the last 24 hours of being here feel a bit disillusioned , to be a bit disillusioned, to be completely honest with politics. there's of apathy about there's a lot of apathy about whether would even in whether they would even vote in the general election , so the next general election, so it'll interesting to find out it'll be interesting to find out why. people here feel so why. why do people here feel so disempowered? got more than disempowered? it's got more than 170 listed buildings because of all investment in the all this investment in the georgian area. the architecture here is beautiful, but of course, like so many high streets, many of those offices are empty . the restaurants are are empty. the restaurants are boarded up, the cafes are closed down. like many high streets. it looks very, very bleak. so let's hope we can work out today what is going on here for the people of whit