Council Consensus or clash of the Councillors? - PCC Full Council 11/11/25
Pompey Politics Podcast
Simon Sansbury and Ian 'Tiny' Morris
5.0 • 4 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This week we take a look at Tuesday's Full Council - was it a council or consensus or clash of the councillors?
Notices of Motion
- 11a Planning & Infrastructure bill (Opposing government plans to increase the planning applications decided by officers, and limit those decided by Councillors) - Cllrs Gardner (CON) Cllr Simpson (REF)
- 11b Fair votes (Supporting votes at 16. Proportional representation) - Cllr Hunt (LIB DEM) Cllr Adair (LIB DEM)
- 11c Support for Healthwatch (Strong opposition to government plans to abolish Healthwatch) - Cllr Swann (CON) Cllr Bosher (CON)
- 11d Digital IDs (Opposition to government plans to mandate digital IDs) - Cllr Barrett (LIB DEM) Pitt (LIB DEM)
- 11e <removed to be discussed at next council meeting>
- 11f Allocation of asylum dispersal (Opposing number housing asylum seekers in Portsmouth compared to other areas) - Cllr Standen (REF) Cllr Madgwick (REF)
- 11g Support VALOUR Network (Support to improve military housing) - Cllr Fielding (LAB) Cllr Adeniran (LAB)
Link to agenda and PCC's recorded livestream in comments on the event.
Clips from PCC's Democratic Services recorded livestream.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast, the podcast where we discuss |
| 0:04.6 | matters of national, international and local importance in a calm, measured and reasonable |
| 0:10.7 | way to get to the heart of the matter. I'm Ian Tini Morris. And I'm Simon Sainsbury. Good |
| 0:16.3 | evening. Good evening indeed. And there you've been tapping away like Jean-Michel Jar on speed, |
| 0:22.6 | trying to get the podcast up and running, |
| 0:24.6 | and we're just a couple of minutes late, |
| 0:26.2 | but it looks like everything is working now. |
| 0:29.3 | So local this week, Simon, and Tuesday night was the, |
| 0:34.5 | or Tuesday afternoon was full local council. First one we've had for a couple of months. |
| 0:39.8 | Yeah, it was indeed. It was a bit of a packed schedule with quite a few things on the, on the agenda, which we'll go through. |
| 0:49.2 | And yeah, it was the first full council meeting since there have been a slew of defections to reform from Portsmouth Independence Party. |
| 1:02.9 | And also since the latest one this week from the Liberal Democrats, which I'm sure we'll probably touch on. |
| 1:12.6 | Talk about how it happened, had it on Tuesday? |
| 1:15.0 | No, it hadn't. So that was the interesting thing, as we'll, as we'll probably comment on later on, |
| 1:20.4 | is that Jason Fasakley, who decided to, who, I'm probably being a bit disendentenuous to say |
| 1:26.2 | that he woke up Wednesday morning and decided to move to reform. |
| 1:29.9 | But yeah, he was happily voting with the Lib Dems on Tuesday. |
| 1:34.8 | People watching the stream will see. |
| 1:37.3 | And actually in some of the clips, he's actually in the background in some of the clips that we've got. |
| 1:42.1 | So you can try to read into his facial expressions if you want, |
| 1:45.3 | whether those were shall I, shan't I, expressions or not. |
| 1:49.5 | But essentially, yeah, a pretty kind of packed agenda with a slew of things. |
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