Island of Strangeness
Pompey Politics Podcast
Simon Sansbury and Ian 'Tiny' Morris
5 • 4 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This week saw Portsmouth City Council’s Mayor Making ceremony and Annual General Meeting.
We interviewed CLLRS Graham Heaney (Deputy Leader Labour group on PCC) & George Madgwick (Leader of Portsmouth Independents Party on PCC) to hear what happens when two parties can both lay claim to the number two spot on the council.
- How do you decide when the next largest groups on the council are two parties both with 9 Councillors?
- How do you make a Mayor?
- Why did the PIP Councillors chose not to sit with the other council members on stage for the ceremony?
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| 0:00.0 | And welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | If you're listening along live, it's Sunday the 18th of May and you are listening to the podcast where we discuss matters of local, national and international political importance, but do them in a balanced, reasonable and gentle way to get to the heart of the matter. |
| 0:20.6 | I'm Ian Tiny Morris. |
| 0:22.8 | And I'm Simon Sandsbrink. |
| 0:25.1 | Good evening and welcome. |
| 0:26.6 | So how is your sunny Sunday, Ian? |
| 0:29.2 | It's a beautiful day out there. |
| 0:30.6 | And to be honest, it's been lovely. |
| 0:32.5 | Last week I ran in in my cricket kit and presented, |
| 0:36.5 | but at least this week I played yesterday. |
| 0:41.8 | So we'll see a half-wap countries. |
| 0:43.8 | It's been a quiet day today. |
| 0:44.9 | And we turn this week from matters of national importance to back into the heart of Portsmouth. |
| 0:53.1 | We do indeed. It may not be an island of strangers, but on Tuesday we were an island of |
| 0:59.7 | strangeness. So how exactly does one make a mayor and does it involve cloning technology, |
| 1:07.9 | some sort of mould, splicing of DNA? So yes, Tuesday was the mayor-making ceremony |
| 1:14.5 | and Portsmouth City Council's AGM. And yes, so amongst the plethora of international guests |
| 1:22.5 | to witness the mayor-making, Portsmouth's answer to pomp and ceremony as the mantle or the mace and ceremonial |
| 1:28.8 | robes were handed over from Jason Frizzakley to Gerald Vernon Jackson. The mayor was appointed, |
| 1:35.7 | as they normally are, chosen at a previously conducted secret ballot of the city's councillors. |
| 1:41.8 | But the most notable thing this year was that the PIP councillors didn't join the other council members on stage, |
| 1:49.0 | instead of choosing to take seats in the audience. |
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