Budget Bombshells
Pompey Politics Podcast
Simon Sansbury and Ian 'Tiny' Morris
5 • 4 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Portsmouth City Council Meeting 25/02/25 - Budget for 2025/26 & beyond
-What is the ·Lib Dem administration saying about the city·s finances for 25/26 and beyond?
-What amendments were put forward by the other parties (PIP, Labour, Conservative)?
-Which were struck down or accepted by the council?
Original meeting details: https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?MId=5375&x=1
Original Stream - PCC's Democratic Services Dept https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8ayb-bRExw
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast, the show where we discuss matters of local, national, and international political significance in a controlled and restrained way to get to the heart of the matter. |
| 0:13.6 | I'm Ian Tiny Morris. |
| 0:16.0 | And I'm Simon Sandsbury in a controlled and restrained manner. |
| 0:20.4 | Sorry, that makes me chuckle. |
| 0:22.4 | Join a suit. |
| 0:26.6 | No, no. |
| 0:28.2 | Good Lord. What a week it's been, Simon. |
| 0:32.2 | Yes, yes, politics. Well, as Steve Pitt himself said in the budget meeting on Tuesday, |
| 0:40.7 | may you live in interesting times, is a curse. |
| 0:44.3 | And I think it's not the first time I've said it on the show. |
| 0:47.6 | Could I please have some boring times? |
| 0:50.5 | Although, to be fair, they would be pretty lame episodes of the pod. |
| 0:53.7 | Exactly that. Exactly that. So our options... although to be fair they would be pretty lame episodes of the pod so maybe that exactly that so |
| 0:56.4 | our our options this week were to cross the pond um which we have decided strongly against |
| 1:04.0 | and we're focusing on matters close at home if you're listening live you know that it's Sunday |
| 1:09.0 | the 3rd of March, which is when we're |
| 1:10.9 | broadcasting this. And if you have the podcast in your ears, then it gives you the idea |
| 1:16.6 | of what a week we've had. But focus this week on Portsmouth. Yes. The budget. The budget. |
| 1:26.2 | Possibly. |
| 1:35.3 | So way back in Tuesday, which was the 25th of February and it feels like quite a while ago now, |
| 1:44.8 | we're only on the 2nd of March, but I don't quite understand. January felt like it lasted for three months and February felt like it lasted less than a week but here we are. So Portsman City Council's full budget took place on Tuesday. The council, |
| 1:51.3 | the administration brought forward their suggested budget for the financial, for the years, |
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