Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast, the podcast where we explore matters of local, national and international importance in a calm, measured and reasonable way to get to the heart of the matter. I'm Ian Tiny Morris.

And I'm Simon Sandsbury and apologies for our late start. There's some sort of technical gremlin. So do let us know in the

comments if you're, if you're experiencing anything, we had a bit of an issue with some echo or some

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landscape or portrait, depending on which is your pleasure.

So here we are. It's a Sunday evening and we still got the same Prime Minister.

Well, indeed, yes. And what a week. It's been our first ever mini-pod. The P, P, P, that might be one too many P's,

ministers, where we enjoyed the cut and the thrust

in a mini pod and they were so inspired that they've chosen rather spitefully to take this week off,

have they not, so that we can't do it again? It's outrageous. How dare they have a holiday? They

have too many holidays. So we'll go with that. But yeah, so we've got,

we've decided that we'll take a look at the, um, at what's going on kind of otherwise

electorally and, um, and kind of see what we think of what we think of those.

You had a bit of a list as to what we wanted to look at, Ian.

What was the...

Yeah, so I guess we look ahead to May the 7th.

Many people looking at that national picture.

Did the world star must survived this week but come May

the 7th, oh it'll all go horribly wrong for him. So I guess we should start by looking at

these were almost the elections that never were. Yes indeed and I've got some some kind of

lovely details to go through. But I guess to build

the picture, shall we talk about how elections normally work in Portsmouth? Well, yes, the old

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