Hands Off Portsmouth! with Steve Pitt
Pompey Politics Podcast
Simon Sansbury and Ian 'Tiny' Morris
5 • 4 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
We welcome Leader of Portsmouth City Council, Cllr Steve Pitt onto the show to talk us through Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) & Devolution.
-Glorious future or shut-gun wedding?
-What’s new since the government’s white paper just before Christmas?
-Who’s deciding what?
-What is changing & when?
-What price could Portsmouth residents be left to pay?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | If you're listening live, then it is Sunday the 9th of March. |
| 0:06.0 | If you're listening to a podcast, it could be any time. |
| 0:08.7 | So welcome to the podcast where we explore local, national and international issues |
| 0:13.6 | with a cool and reasonable head to get to the heart of the matter. |
| 0:17.9 | I'm Ian Tiny Morris. |
| 0:19.7 | And I'm Simon Sandsbury. You could be cool and |
| 0:22.9 | I can be reasonable. Absolutely. And tonight we are, well, we're local, but what does Pompeia |
| 0:31.3 | Portsmouth even mean now? So we're looking at local government reorganisation and devolution and we are joined by somebody |
| 0:40.2 | who might know everything that's going on, but knows more than most. |
| 0:46.5 | Good evening, Councillor Steve Pitt. |
| 0:49.1 | Hello, both. |
| 0:49.7 | Nice to see you. |
| 0:50.9 | Nice to see you too. |
| 0:51.7 | Thank you for coming on and trying to make sense of this devolution |
| 0:55.6 | stroke local government reorganisation stuff. Nice to have you back on. I'm sure it's occupied a lot of |
| 1:02.1 | your time. So thank you for giving your Sunday evening. If you are watching the show live |
| 1:08.3 | in Portrait, there will be a version edited into landscape later |
| 1:13.9 | on, but if you're just listening along audio, well, none of that makes any sense to you whatsoever, |
| 1:18.2 | and it doesn't really matter. Shall I explain kind of what the current situation is, Ian, |
| 1:22.9 | before we kind of get into trying to find out what the hell has happened? I guess it's good to |
| 1:27.4 | know that |
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