Four of Six - General Election Specials - Antonia Harrison

Pompey Politics Podcast

Simon Sansbury and Ian 'Tiny' Morris

Politics, News, News Commentary

5 • 4 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Fourth of what we hope will be six interviews with the major party candidates in Portsmouth's two constituencies. This episode, Antonia Harrison, Liberal Democrat candidate for Portsmouth North. All guests will be presented with two introductory questions plus three they choose at random from the Pompey Politics Pot Of Pondering. • Each guest is invited to introduce themselves and give an insight into why they got involved in politics. • We’ll invite guests to provide a brief description of where they stand on Brexit. Guest will then select three questions at random from the Pompey Politics Pot of Pondering. The full question list is: 1. Turnout in 2017 GE was 69%. How do we increase voter participation in our democracy. 2. If cost wasn’t an object what physical changes would you make to parliament. 3. FPTP – protector of our democratic institutions, or a burden. 4. If tomorrow you were Chancellor of the Exchequer - what would be your first act. 5. Name the policy of your political opponents you like the most – and why. 6. Which one of your Parties Policies are you most proud of (no Brexit answers) 7. If you could change anything about the 2016 referendum (excluding the result() what would it be? 8. What do you admire most about one of the other main party candidates standing against you? 9. Do you think the NHS will always remain free at point of use?

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0:00.0	And welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast.
0:02.3	Blue and yellow, till we die. I'm Ian Tini Morris.
0:05.4	I'm Simon Sandsbury and we're here today with
0:07.7	Antonio Harrison.
0:15.0	Thank you very much for coming, Antonio.
0:16.9	Marvelous. The fourth of our general election specials, so Antonia is standing in
0:23.4	Portsmouth North as the Liberal Democrat. Would you like to introduce yourself and give us a bit
0:28.7	of background on how you came to be in politics? Well, at the age of 12 in true blue conservative
0:37.1	area, I stood as the liberal candidate at school.
0:42.3	I have no idea why, but I didn't win.
0:49.3	All of my family have always voted conservative and yet I've always been the yellow sheep of the family.
0:55.0	In 1990 I heard Paddy Ashdown speak and there was something about the common sense that that man said over and over that just made me feel,
1:07.0	you know what, I want to join this man's party. I'd never been involved in politics before,
1:12.3	always been on the fringe, but I wanted to be involved. So I joined, I got involved,
1:17.4	deliveries, canvassing, just being part of the team. And that was enough for me. But it was
1:24.4	after the 2015 result, which we won't come into, and then the 2016 referendum,
1:31.8	then I just got upset and angry.
1:34.9	And I said, I think it's time that I go involved.
1:38.6	I think it's time that I stood to be an MP.
1:43.2	And that is how I came to be where I am today.
1:46.0	That's a fairly, that's a very passionate journey.
1:52.0	I mean, 2015 was, Simon and I have touched on it many times.
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