The time is 6.27 p.m.

And welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast.

And we're blue and yellow till we die.

And my colleague Ian, Tiny Morris, is just trying to actually get his microphone to unmute.

And I'm Simon Sandspring.

Thank you. And I'm Simon Sandspring. Ian, are you still, are you with us?

Have the vagaries of Zoom. I can see see you but i can't hear you because i keep

sending the ask unmute and it's not unmuting you there you go you're unmuted and welcome

we've done that we've done the intro in the music but we're here yes no i could hear all of that

and frantically jaws was jabbering no i could hear all of that and frantically

jaws was jabbering away in the background telling me that um it was all going on and uh yes yes

this is the trouble with working with about 17 open windows on your laptop but we're here we are here

and just for reference jaws is the um the speaking screen software that you use.

We're not talking about the bad guy in Moon Raker.

No, no, nor am I talking about any kind of shark related.

But I do have a shark just to hand, just in case we need one.

Is, okay.

Is that, okay.

I don't even know where to begin with that, listeners.

So, good evening and welcome to our 69th episode.

Yes, yes, greatly numerically comedic, which is always a good thing, but as a family

show, we'll move, we'll move on. So we're talking budgets today, aren't we? The councillors.

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