Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast.

I'm Ian Tainty Morris.

And I'm Simon Sandspring.

Oh, after the cut and the thrust and the hurly burly of the hustings back to just the two of us, Simon.

It is. It feels a little bit weird not to have to kind of sort out multitude of technical issues,

prepare a load of questions, do a coin toss, explain the spreadsheet, not muck up the spreadsheet.

Yeah, it's not break the spreadsheet.

We're back to simpler times.

And yeah, so this evening show is, I think this is the third year that we've been doing

the predictions and I think I think you've won both so far, but only by the narrowest

of margins, perhaps one perhaps one seat or two.

So it's my chance this evening to turn the tables and use my insightful pun tree to win this one,

or potentially we'll have got it all wrong and we'll hang our heads in shame next Sunday.

So yes, enjoyed the hustings.

Shame we only got the four in, I think.

I think at one point it was looking like we might have had to do seven or eight, but then

we didn't quite get as many as we hoped to cross the night.

No, it was a shame.

There was quite a bit of interest from other wards,

but sadly not enough for us to be able to,

even with us saying we'll do a hustings,

if we've got as few as two candidates to do a hustings,

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