Welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast, the podcast where we explore national and local issues,

diving into the things that matter to you in a non-confrontational and investigative way

to hopefully get to the heart of the matter. This is Sunday the 2nd of February. The 11 weeks

of January are over. And I'm Ian Tiny Morris.

And I'm Simon Sandsbury, and yeah, that January is quite a kicker, isn't it?

Oh, wasn't it just? And it was that, you know, I know calendars are a random thing,

and we can't blame, we can't blame anybody for them.

But the fact that that payday fell on Friday the 31st, it was like, oh, couldn't you

just cut us a break and have it fall on a Sunday?

So, yeah, it did feel like it lasted forever.

But here we are in February.

Evenings will be getting lighter.

There's the roller coaster of the Portsmouth City Council budget come later in the month.

But this evening we are looking back brackets, hopefully not in anger.

I see what you did there.

That's a nice to you in.

Yeah, so five years ago, or more precisely, 11pm on the 31st of January 2020, was a historic, an historic moment and a seminal point in history.

And we wanted today to celebrate those things that happened that day and what's happened since.

So what are we celebrating in?

Well, and again, it's amazing, isn't it?

In this world of social media and misinformation,

you put up a perfectly sensible post about Brexit a celebration five years on.

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