Do we value our democracies?

Pompey Politics Podcast

Simon Sansbury and Ian 'Tiny' Morris

Politics, News, News Commentary

5.0 • 4 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Technical difficulties with internet connections frustrating the show don't stop Simon & Ian talking about recent horrific events in the USA, alarming threats from President Trump to 'send in the military' and the cancelling of the virtual parliament in the UK, forcing shielding or vulnerable MPs to risk their lives or for their constituents to lose their democratic voice. Joined by listener Ivy they also discuss some ideas about how democratic accountability could be improved and how our elections, as well as political institutions, could be dragged into the 21st century.

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0:00.0	Alexa, what time is it?
0:02.9	The time is 6.29 p.m.
0:06.5	Okay, two Alexis. We're still late.
0:09.2	Technical problems yet again.
0:11.4	And welcome to the Pompey Politics podcast.
0:14.5	Blue and yellow till we die.
0:16.0	I'm Ian Tinymice.
0:17.3	And I'm Simon Sandsbury, but slightly frazzled.
0:27.4	Thank you. nice. And I'm Simon Sandsbury but slightly frazzled. Okay, so again, technical issues. Thanks Zoom for kind of updating things and making
0:33.3	an extra impossible for Ian to get on. Here we are.
0:39.2	Yeah, and back in the early days when we had phones balanced on the handles of vacuum cleaners
0:45.9	and various other bits of kit, we thought we might have mastered it by now.
0:51.8	Yeah, we thought we were beyond that, but it doesn't seem to um doesn't seem to quite
0:58.0	worked out that way so um we thought you popped out the call then for a second so um okay i'm
1:05.5	going to try not to have to vamp too long each time i and drops out the call um so today episode
1:10.5	41 yeah um 12 weeks long each time Ian drops out the call. So today, episode 41?
1:13.6	Yeah, 12 weeks in.
1:15.7	Yes.
1:17.0	So how's your lockdown week been in?
1:20.0	Yeah, not too bad this week, to be honest.
1:22.2	No, I had a reasonable week blogging and invited the world into the, into the sport of binnastics on Friday.
1:32.6	So, yeah, no, it's been a, not been a bad week at all, to be fair.
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