Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast. I'm Ian Tini Morris. And I'm Simon Sandsbury.

Good evening and welcome to our latest hustings. It's rather odd to be here on a Tuesday evening.

But what have we got this evening, Simon?

So this evening, we have our third ward hustings.

So we're taking a trip to Baffins, a highly contested ward this year, which we'll get into.

So we are joined by three of the candidates

in standing in Baffins this year. And those are Jeanette Smith, who's standing as an independent,

Jason Christopher, who's standing for the Labour Party, and Charlie Douglas, who's standing for the

Conservatives.

So welcome all three candidates.

Good evening.

Don't frighten me by now not being able to speak or something and we can't hear you.

You can.

Good evening.

Good evening.

I can't believe they were colluding against us.

That was very...

That was almost me.

So I think it's also important as just before we start the hustings to just reinforce

the fact that we do invite every candidate that we know to be standing in the ward.

We approach them either through their central party

or directly through social media.

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