'I for one don’t feel comfortable about being paid to be fracked,' said rural Surrey resident Jenny Smithurst. ‘If I’m going to get the most out of repeated fracking, I want it to mean something real. If, say, Chancellor Phillip Hammond wanted to pay me thousands of pounds so I submitted to the kind of penetration we’ve seen talked about in newspapers, I’d say that could be inappropriate, if not sordid. Where do we sign up?’