Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast.

I'm Ian Tiny Morris.

And I'm Simon Sandsbury.

Good evening, watchers and listeners, and welcome to another cracking episode of the

Pompey Politics Podcast.

This week we are going to go both close to home

and away as we look into the future. So we've got a combination of Tuesday is another full council

meeting and I think it was last Tuesday. Charlie three rocked up at Parliament to lay down some sweet beats and tunes as he did

his King's speech to outline the government's plans for the next year. I'm sure that's how it was

described. I mean, it was described in various ways by different observers.

I haven't kind of seen any stats that tell us how,

what the average length of a normal king's or queen's speech was or is,

this obviously being our first king's speech for 72 years.

Yeah.

And, yeah, I mean, it lays out the legislative agenda for the government for the parliamentary year ahead.

But it doesn't limit their legislative agenda to what's actually in the speech.

So in that respect, it's just a bit of these are the things that they

said that they're going to do. But they might not do them and they might add some other things.

Yeah, it's a kind of menu, isn't it? But it's a little bit like looking at the menu online

three months before you visit the restaurant. They might all still be there. There might be some

stuff you like, some stuff you're not so keen on, and by the time you get there, there's a chance some of those dishes

will be off and they'll be replaced with others. But I think we were going to start by looking

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