Last full council before local elections May 2023

Pompey Politics Podcast

Simon Sansbury and Ian 'Tiny' Morris

Politics, News, News Commentary

5.0 • 4 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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**Our apologies to any early listeners of this episode, a Tired Simon Error with an incomplete edit being uploaded has now been resolved*** On Tuesday, Portsmouth City Council held its last meeting of the full council before May's local elections where 14 of the 42 councillors face re-election. Was it a point-scoring exchange of leaflet writing soundbites or did harmony break out ahead of the electoral battle ahead? The agenda included; Council tax for 2nd homes, Plans for an Anaerobic Digester, Pay Policy Settlement, Tesco pulling recycling from stores in the city, Extending safe spaces, Southern Water's continued dumping of sewage into our waters, Stopping bailiffs chasing Council Tax debt, young carers & What's happening to the fireworks in Cosham.

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0:00.0	Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast.
0:03.0	I'm Ian Tini Morris.
0:04.7	And I'm Simon Sandsbury.
0:13.6	So welcome viewers and listeners.
0:15.7	Another Sunday evening of local political-based fund.
0:21.9	Oh, and Simon is having all sorts of fun with.
0:25.9	We've got a new technical setup today, so hopefully everything is coming through loud and clear.
0:30.9	For those of you who are close watchers of Simon's hairstyle, he's keeping it particularly
0:35.8	close so that he can't tear it out any more than his, he has been doing a wig. So is it all looking good there on the technical desk, Simon?
0:44.3	Well, as far as I can tell, yes.
0:47.3	Ah, which is the old, either it's working okay or you're in blissful ignorance that it's not so our focus this evening
0:56.6	is the last full council before the gloves come off and we go into to the full duking it out on may
1:04.2	the fourth yes yes Tuesday was the was the last full council before May's local elections, 14 councillors
1:14.1	up for re-election out of the 42. And yeah, it's a bit of a mixed bag, to be honest with you.
1:23.3	Well, obviously, following on from last week and the budget meeting where everyone seemed to hug each other sing kumbaya and have a generally warm and loving tone, it's, you know, was that just an outbreak for one meeting?
1:39.4	Or I think there was some, there was surprising general consensus on a number of issues in this meeting as well.
1:49.4	Yeah, indeed, there were quite a few things that were literally just kind of way through at the start of the agenda.
1:57.1	But once we got into the notices of motion, even there, there was a surprising outbreak of consensus and agreement.
2:05.6	Not that everybody liked that idea.
2:08.6	No, I mean, last week, so again, we'll have to look carefully at this point as to whether it is the positive, warm, bonhamee of collaborative politics or by grumpy world, whether it's everybody just going here, whatever.
2:27.9	So we'll, we will digest it with our laser-like analysis, which is what hopefully our listeners and viewers have come to expect.
2:36.5	So you've got the agenda in front of you, Simon.
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