And welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast.

Blue and Yellow, till we die.

I'm Ian Tiny Morris.

And I'm Simon Sandsby.

And welcome to General Election 5 and 6.

But we got some good news and bad news for you depending well we let you the listener decide

yeah so depending on how you feel about this you might go yay or no oh no in which case please

stop and rewind the tape yeah well yeah i mean yes there always is that option you could just you

know stop but don't do that we

haven't told you what it is yet so let's explain something a little bit so um as you will know of

course avid listener um we've been pleased to have been able to invite Amanda Martin

and Tonya Harrison Donna Jones yep and Gerald Vernon Jackson to our podcast and we

thank them for squeezing us in on their busy campaign trails.

But lamentably, Stephen Morgan and Penny Mordaunt whilst we reached out to them, their

diaries have not permitted them to come and join us.

Stephen offered to send in written answers, but we didn't feel us, particularly me reading them out, would be appropriate.

So instead of Penny and Stephen, dear listener, you've got...

But we've invited ourselves.

We have. And both of us have accepted. Yes we've invited ourselves. We have.

And both of us have accepted.

Yes, which is handy, I guess, really.

So what we're going to do is, as we've put our candidates through our Pompey Politics part of pondering, general election special,

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