Christmas come early ? Last Full Council of 2025
Pompey Politics Podcast
Simon Sansbury and Ian 'Tiny' Morris
5.0 • 4 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In our last show of 2025, we take a look at the last Full Council meeting for 2025 of Portsmouth City Council.
Was the chamber filled with festive cheer and agreement or were 42 Grinches trying to ruin Christmas? What hint do proceedings give of the 2026 local elections campaigns?
Before the council are:-
11. A briefing on devolution
Notices of motion
12a Aquind - The Council reaffirms its opposition to the Aquind interconnector project.
12b Tackling Anti-Social Behaviour Issues in Portsmouth
12c Cross Border Taxi Licensing and Passenger Safety
12d Tackling Knife Crime and Enhancing Public Safety in Portsmouth
12e Local Government Reorganisation - call on the govt not to force Portsmouth to become a larger unitary authority (encompassing Havant, Waterlooville, Gosport & Fareham.
12f Improving Pedestrian Safety on Portsdown Hill Road
12g Investing in Early Years: Expanded Free Breakfast Clubs and Childcare for Working Families in Portsmouth
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast, the podcast where we look at matters of local, |
| 0:05.7 | national and international political importance in a calm, measured, reasonable way to get to the |
| 0:12.0 | heart of the matter. I'm Ian Tiny Morris. And I'm Simon Sandsbury. Yeah, so calm and heart of the |
| 0:19.9 | matter. |
| 0:23.6 | This is our final show of 2025 unless there's some sort of massive political disaster |
| 0:26.0 | that we feel we can't do anything but comment on. |
| 0:29.0 | It's not like us to comment on something randomly. |
| 0:32.7 | But this week we'll be commenting on, |
| 0:36.4 | well, were there any arguments in the full council chamber on the |
| 0:38.8 | 9th of December were there any surprises did they get to the heart of the matter I'm not |
| 0:46.2 | entirely sure I think the I think the jury's out on that one I don't know whether actually |
| 0:52.0 | that still goes before a jury that That might not. So who can tell? |
| 0:57.7 | So yeah, so Tuesday the 9th of December, Portsmouth City Council's final full council of the year. |
| 1:05.8 | And after recent announcements about devolution and LGR, it's obviously not the last ever Bortsmouth City full council meeting, |
| 1:14.3 | but that might happen at some point in a couple of years in the future |
| 1:18.2 | if the thing actually goes ahead, but who can tell? |
| 1:22.5 | So, yeah, so we've, a bit of a packed schedule, a bit of drama. |
| 1:28.7 | Can you possibly guess what head adornment, the Lord Mayor, Gerald Vernon Jackson, was wearing during the meeting? |
| 1:41.3 | Well, difficult to say, and possibly edging towards a hate crime to ask the blind man to answer that |
| 1:48.3 | question. But presuming it's made with good intentions, I thought as the mayor, he had to wear |
| 1:53.6 | some kind of crown anywhere has turned. |
| 1:55.7 | No, and I mean, that was why I was asking you to guess, rather than testing you. |
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