It's 6.27 p.m.

And welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast.

Blue and yellow till we die. I'm Ian Tiny Morris.

And I'm Simon Sandspring.

Well, Simon, I had good feelings about today in terms of our digital arrangement.

Don't say that.

Just to let you know that I neither heard Alexa nor the musical sting there.

So hopefully they've appeared to our listeners.

And I guess it's only fitting that in the week where we lost Sean Connery,

some of the best bonds, I am forced to be like a Bond villain here,

making a fuss of my tiny cat, Enid Lighten,

who has decided now is the time that she needs to be involved.

Indeed. So I'm just trying to get hurriedly into the chat so that I can see whether anyone else can actually

message me someone to say that actually you can hear both of us rather than just me and is the music playing.

So you didn't hear the music at all?

Nope.

No, no, nor Alexa.

So our continuing ongoing challenges of having something to challenge your digital paradigm every time we broadcast continues if today we're not challenged enough so unfortunately we've had to have a change of plan

from our original scheduled episode as unfortunately Sarah Cheverton from

Star and Crescent couldn't make it today so we wish Sarah and her family all the very best and hopefully

we'll get her on at some point later in the year. So it's me and you and a hurriedly cobbled

three-course sumptuous banquet of political deliciousness.

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