0:00.0	Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast, the podcast where we get to the heart of
0:05.8	international, national and local political matters in a reasoned, balanced and fair way. I'm Ian Tiny
0:13.2	Morris. And I'm Simon Sandsbury. Good evening, Ian. It's been a bit of a strange week.
0:20.0	Well, they say a week is a long time in politics,
0:23.0	do they not? And what a long week it was. And Thursday in particular was extraordinarily
0:29.7	long for both of us and for many of the candidates as well as the toughest job interview in the world came to a conclusion at around 3 o'clock in the morning for most of the candidates.
0:44.3	Yes, it did. So we're doing our review today of the results that took place on Thursday night or Friday morning
0:54.5	more accurately. So we'll break those down, look at the 2026 local elections, the winners and
1:01.5	the losers and the surprises in Portsmouth and what that means for what that could mean for
1:07.1	the future of the city. And also obviously the change that the spoiler alert the change
1:12.6	um well it doesn't change who's in control of the council but it does change um well the set up of
1:20.5	i've fluffed that haven't i've talked about going for the big reveal early if our if our
1:26.9	listenership and and watch drop now, you'll know
1:30.0	that it's entirely your fault at this point. It was. It was entirely my fault. But while I fluff
1:36.1	that up, do please remember to give us a like, follow, comment or subscribe on YouTube and the links are in the chat of the different
1:46.0	ways you can watch us if you'd rather watch us vertically or if you'd rather watch us horizontally
1:51.8	whichever takes your fancy.
1:53.2	I think in both of those instances it's important to point out it's the picture on the
2:00.0	screen rather than the orientation of the person watching.
2:04.2	So, yes. We're not going to change our orientations. No. So, you know, it had been a well anticipated election. I guess if we look at the mechanics of the night, you know, we had been, you know, because
2:20.3	this is probably the one time a year where Simon and I are almost treated as if we are genuine media types.
2:27.3	So thank you to Portsmouth Democratic Services who once again invited us in, gave us our little cozy booth at the back of the
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