Welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast.

I'm Ian Tiny Morris.

And I'm Simon Sandsbury.

Welcome good people.

And hopefully, if you are one of the politically motivated people of Portsmouth,

and you've been out pounding the pavements

and stuffing letterboxes and knocking doors. Hopefully a combination of the inclement weather

and the failing light has brought you safely home with a mug of Horlicks, Bovril or perhaps

even something stronger so that you can settle back and listen to this

year's Pompey Politics Podcasts predictions extravaganza. Are we poised, Simon? We are poised. I mean,

last year, obviously, we could make play of the, of that it was, the elections were May the Fourth, so it was May the Fourth be with you.

This year's prediction show, I playfully have called Second Chances, because it's the chances for May the Seconds.

This is excellent.

And as we know, for those of you that have listened to the show in the past, there are, we are not always 100% right.

And as of last year, it was amazing how many of the politically active members of a Portsmouth political scene were,

when didn't appear that confident before boxes started being opened

and votes started being counted.

But then by the end of the evening,

we're telling us what a pair of absolute buffoons we were

and how the results were never in doubt.

So there will be the opportunity again tomorrow night to come and chat to us at the

count where we will be broadcasting live from, it's a later start.

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