Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast.

I'm Ian Tini Morris.

And I'm Simon Sandsbury.

Well, it is the Sunday after the Thursday before.

The May the 5th elections happened.

The results are in. The counting has all been done and we're here to pick through who were the winners and losers on Thursday night and what a

line up we've got Simon we have indeed we have got a thoroughly show. So we have a couple of freshly elected councillors. So we've got Russell Simpson from the Portsmouth Independence Party who was elected in Hillsie. We've got Yinka and Denoran for Labor who was elected in Charles

Dickens. We've got Ben Swan who was re-elected in Koppel for the Conservatives and we

have Councillor Steve Pitt who rejoins the council who was elected in, it's trying to remember now,

in Milton.

Yes, in Milton.

It's got to be Milton.

So yes, it was a night of shock, a night of awe, a night of upset, and a night of excitement.

Yeah, I have to say that, you know, it was, there were definitely some, some results in there

which had many eyebrows raised and, you know, it's, it is lovely that we've got so many

folk who've been prepared to come on and chat with us about the night and everything that went on thereafter.

So, yeah, should we pull in our first couple of guests?

Yes, indeed.

So, yes, so joining us, as I say, we've got Russell Simpson for Healsy, and we have, and he's also joined by George Madrick, so of the Portsmouth Independence Party.

So we've got both of them joining us this evening. So good evening and welcome. Good evening. How are going?

I think that's a question we should probably ask the pair of you. It's that you must be delighted.

Yeah, over the moon. Absolutely over the moon, as you can imagine. How are you, Ian?

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