Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast.

I'm Ian Tini Morris.

And I'm Simon Sandsbury.

Well, time flies when you're having fun, Simon, doesn't it?

Last pod of November and after this one, only a couple of more weeks

left in the autumn winter season before Christmas is upon us? It is indeed, yeah. We are, as you say,

at the end of the month and we're in the penultimate month of the year that seems to have whizzed

past in a bit of like a blur between February and August and things are maybe going

backwards a little bit aren't they?

Well, and I guess that's the fundamental question.

We'll look to address this evening, which is, you know, as our thoughts turn towards Christmas and the countdown is, I mean,

forks today, it'll be Boxing Day.

And if all is well, you and I will probably be around your dad's house drinking his excellent

port, and that's what we're all hoping for.

Well, obviously, many people aren't hoping about our pork consumption, but I'm sure we are.

But the question, I guess, is, is the new variant of the COVID virus going to put pay to that?

And both of us have made a complete hash of naming it, I think, in various ways, but I believe

it's the Omnicon variant.

Isn't it Omicom?

Is it Omicom?

Oh, good God.

To me, we're just sticking in random letters.

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