Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast.

I'm Ian Tini Morris.

And I'm Simon Sandsbury.

They say a week can be a long time in politics, Simon.

Another one has flown by.

It certainly has. And with, well, I'm in politics, Simon. Another one has flown by. It certainly has.

And with, well, I'm sure we might mention snippets of it later,

but with more U-turns than someone doing donuts in the HMRC car park at the end of the road.

Ah, yes, yes, yes.

It's not been an easy week, I have to say. As usual, the COP 26 has continued on its way. There's been some good stuff and some kind of ordinary stuff, but yeah, they're not done yet. So, yeah. But our focus this week is more local, is it not? It is indeed. So

on Tuesday, the 9th of November, so this is a before the event. So spoilers, everybody.

On the 9th of November, the full council meeting for Portsmouth City Council will be taking place in the chamber.

Whereas for the last couple of meetings, they've actually been taking place in the main auditorium in the Guildhall due to COVID regulations to give people a chance to spread out.

And in fact, in one of them, they were so spread out and they actually left the meeting.

But we could probably touch on that as well later on um so yes a return to the chamber um to basically

go through uh go through the motions as it were with various puns intended i think i

scored highly there yeah no no I think you've, I think

you've, I think you've, I think you're setting the tone early. So, so, um, so yes, all,

all 42 plus council officers back in the chamber. Um, and I know there was some discussion as to

whether it was appropriate or not, but I guess it's a strange times we live in, isn't it?

It's the fact that, you know, again, I've been in

packed music venues.

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