Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast.

I'm Ian Tini Morris.

And I'm Simon Sandsbury.

Oh, stressful Sundays.

Stressful Sundays.

But we're here.

We're back. The technology has been fixed. And we have a show.

Well, that remains to be seen. So, yes, we are here. Thank you very much for wrestling with the technology, Simon.

So unfortunately, Ben Swan couldn't make it tonight. He's not feeling very well, but Simon was still glad to fight his way through the technical demons.

We had different technical demons tonight that aren't related to me dusting the mixer.

And so, yes, so a slightly different show, but a rerun of the one that we had to abort the week before last because basically tech was against us.

So welcome back Simon.

Good evening, gentlemen and how are you?

I've got a little bit less hair now, but I'm fine.

There wasn't much spare in the first place, yeah.

So doing well, thank you.

So with Ben not being able to make it,

and it being, you know, unfortunately we weren't able to round up

another conservative who wasn't available.

But we do have one on hand.

Here's one we prepared earlier.

Here's one we prepared earlier.

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