Drayton & Farlington ward hustings 2026
Pompey Politics Podcast
Simon Sansbury and Ian 'Tiny' Morris
5.0 • 4 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Joining us for our 2026 Drayton & Farlington ward hustings are:-
🟦Simon Bosher
🟥Matthew Holland
(Our invitation was extended to the other three candidates).
Hustings rules available on our website https://www.pppodcast.uk/2026-hustings
Questions
- What are the top three issues in the ward & how would you fix them?
- Traffic and parking are frequent frustrations for residents - how would you tackle them?
- What would you do to breathe new life into our shopping areas, or is the high street as we know it dead?
- How will you increase the availability of defibrillators, and make sure they are shared on the responder app & BHF network so they can be found when needed?
- To what degree do national politics overshadow local issues - which is more important, person or party?
- HMOs. Good bad or ugly? Would you seek to improve them, limit them or stop them all together?
- What would you see the council do to tackle the knife crime and other violent assaults on our city's streets?
- LGR - good or bad thing for Portsmouth?
- This year we celebrate the centenary of Portsmouth - what about the city are you most proud?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast and our 2026, Drayton and Farlington Ward Hustings. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Ian Tiny Morris. |
| 0:09.3 | And I'm Simon Sandsbury. |
| 0:10.9 | Good evening. |
| 0:11.9 | So. |
| 0:12.9 | Well, another hustings. |
| 0:14.4 | Yeah, two in one day. |
| 0:15.4 | They're like buses, well, they're like buses, aren't they? |
| 0:18.2 | You don't have any for ages and then suddenly three come along in five days. |
| 0:22.2 | Very much. Very much. So this is our second hustings of the day, but it's our last hustings of the |
| 0:29.5 | 26 local elections. This time, as Ian's just said, with the Drayton and Farlington Ward hustings. |
| 0:37.3 | I'll introduce the candidates in just a second, but let me just kind of go into a bit of an |
| 0:41.8 | explanation of how we run our hustings and how we got here and also list out all of the |
| 0:48.6 | candidates for Dratid and Farlington. |
| 0:51.5 | Please also don't forget, if you are watching in landscape and want to watch in Portrait |
| 0:57.0 | or vice versa, I'm popping the links into the chat now, which allow you to switch to the |
| 1:02.3 | other because we're live streaming in landscape in YouTube as well as in Portrait. |
| 1:07.5 | And by all means to join along with the comments. |
| 1:10.2 | And if you'd like to give us a |
| 1:11.8 | like, follow, share, comment, that will be lovely to see the conversation moving forward. |
| 1:17.6 | So, our Hastings. So we've held hustings in Portsmouth local elections since 2022. |
| 1:24.5 | It's fair to say that the responses this year have been lower than previous years. |
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