Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast.

I'm Ian Tini Morris.

And I'm Simon Sandsbury.

How terribly exciting the road to the 5th of May begins here with the first of our virtual hustings and what could be better

than some say the finest ward in the whole of Portsmouth. It's not like we're biased at all,

is it? Just in case listeners weren't aware, both Ian and I, we both live in the ward.

So this is coming to live from the heart of caution.

So joining us this evening, we've got four candidates for the local elections for May for Caution Ward.

And this is ahead even of the closing nominations, which't close until 5 p.m. on Tuesday so so 4 p.m. on Tuesday so we have we have with us we have Hannah Hockaday

we have Ashgar Shah we have Mike Jerome and we have Helena Cole.

So thank you very much for joining us.

So what I'm going to do quickly is I'm going to run down the rules so that we can familiarize the audience with them.

Please do follow along in the quotes.

And if you've got any comments to make,

please do make those in the live stream.

It'll be lovely to hear what you've got to say about the show.

But please also do remember,

if you're not yet registered to vote in this May's elections,

you can still register to vote up until 115959 p.m. on the 14th of April.

So please do make sure that you don't lose your voice. Because if you don't say it, no one else will.

Okay, so quick rundown of our rules. So our rules are quite simple. Each candidate will have a two-minute

opening speech and they'll run in an order of a highly scientific coin toss, which we conducted

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