Alexa, what time is it?

It's 7pm.

And welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast.

Blue and Yellow till we die.

I'm Ian Tiny Morris.

And I'm Simon Sandsbury.

And welcome to our Eastney and Craneswater live virtual hustings.

So with us this evening, we have two candidates.

So the candidates that you'll see on the ballot paper are Matthew Winnington for the Liberal Democrats, Craig Withy for Labor,

John Smith for the Conservatives and Meno Grosan for the Greens. So Craig and Matthew have

joined us this evening and Ian will give us an update in a moment as to our attempts with contacting

the other candidates. So I'm going to briefly explain how our

hustings will work and then Ian's going to give us a bit of a background on the statistics

of the ward and then we'll get to some questions. So the questions have been submitted in advance

of the event via Facebook or by email. And if there's time as we run

along and there are comments that are suitable in the further submission of questions actually

in the comments section on the live stream, then we may include those if we have time. All the

questions that we've chosen are ones which can be answered by all of the candidates

and they are applicable to the ward or to Portsmouth.

And our questions have been selected by Ian and myself and will we put to the candidates in turn.

All of the candidates have the option to give a three-minute opening and a three-minute closing speech.

Candidates that have responded to us but are unable to

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