EU Have A Pie I Won’t

Pompey Politics Podcast

Simon Sansbury and Ian 'Tiny' Morris

Politics, News, News Commentary

5 • 4 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In a shorter, pre Euro Elections (2019) show, Ian and Simon discuss how the voting system works, who the likely winners will be, and what that might mean.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast.
0:03.0	Blue and Yellow till we die. I'm Ian Tiny Morris and I'm Simon Sandsbrough.
0:12.0	And welcome to episode 4, which is our EU election special.
0:19.0	If the thrill and the cut and the thrust of the locals wasn't enough for you
0:24.5	by the general bungling incompetence of government and the failure of an adequate opposition,
0:29.6	we've now, and nobody expected it, we've got the surprise EU elections coming up on May the 23rd.
0:37.0	Yes. Yes.
0:38.8	Yes.
0:42.9	So these are the elections that no one wanted to fight.
0:47.1	Even more than Brenda didn't want to have to vote in the 2017 election.
0:48.3	God bless Brenda.
0:49.6	Where is she now, I wonder.
0:50.7	Is it Brenda from Bristol?
0:52.1	Could have been Brenda from Bristol.
0:53.1	It's a great alliteration.
0:59.5	I'm going with that anyway, even if it was. We're going to make a move. So, okay, so how does it work? So bear in mind that in our previous conversations about the locals, we touched on how the local political system works,
1:05.6	how many councils, etc, etc. Let's cover in brief how the euro elections work. So currently and this of course will
1:16.6	change for how the European Parliament continues if the UK actually does leave the European Union,
1:22.6	but how it is currently is there are 751 seats in the European Parliament and the United Kingdom
1:30.4	has 73 and we have European Parliament elections every four years and in our region which is
1:39.7	the south-east region we have 10 seats up for grabs.
1:43.8	This is going to be a complicated old ballot paper, isn't it?
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