Hello and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast.

Blue and yellow till we die.

I'm Ian Tiny Morris.

And I'm Simon Sinty.

And welcome to episode six, which today we're calling a game of top trumps,

which those of you that of a certain age will remember back to the early,

or it had been 80s when he had all those interesting cards

and he played games against each other.

Good Lord, what did we do before the internet happened, Simon?

Read.

More noble pursuits, I suppose.

But anyway, let's get into the meat of this week's episode.

And it's all happening in Portsmouth this week.

We are going to be the centre of a media storm scrum.

What would it be?

Because we've got the 75th D-Day commemorations taking place in Portsmouth, we've got some

heads of state coming to, coming to Portsmouth actually for a big day on the fifth.

So I'll run through what's happening on the day.

Before you get into the gunwls of that, originally I think the local council on both sides were

were aiming for a more low-key affair. So I think there was some stuff reporting the news

when the list of heads of states started being reported. What were the views of the local elite?

And this was reported in the evening news as well,

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