The time is 6.27 p.m.

And welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast.

Blue and yellow, till we die, I'm Ian Tiny Morris.

And I'm Simon Sandsbury.

So, Ian, it feels kind of like a bit weird not to be doing hustings I've kind of got quite used to that

it's easy odd isn't it it's back to just us for the next couple of episodes and then we've got to go and take a lie down as this will be

I think this is our fourth podcast in 11 days.

Something like that, I lost count.

But, you know, we don't have a government stat that tells us how many podcasts that we've had in the last X number of days or how many, you know.

Yeah, we've got nobody keeping score for us. We're reliant on our own maths.

And as people who listen regularly

will know, sometimes that can be just a touch, shonky.

Yeah, we're about to find out just how wonky our maths are.

So have you thrust your equipment through the letterbox of the unsuspecting Portsmouth

public, as it were for the last time today?

What? What does that mean um if you're out delivering leaflets yes i anybody could misconstrue that okay i've been out um i've been out

issuing um issuing um issuing important communications and messages to the to the good folk of portsmouth

it's a good way to get your steps up.

I can thoroughly recommend it.

And I'm sure that all candidates and activists across the political spectrum

can attest to just how much exercise they'll get delivering leaflets.

Although, to be fair, you do end up actually eating more rubbish food,

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