Mayor's Musings
Pompey Politics Podcast
Simon Sansbury and Ian 'Tiny' Morris
5 • 4 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
We ask former Lord Mayor of Portsmouth, Cllr Jason Fazackarley about his & Lady Mayoress, Helen Mitchell's highs & lows for their year representing the city of Portsmouth & its residents.
- Just how do you make a Mayor - there’s a Mayor Making ceremony, but how do you become one?
- What were the highs and lows for Jason and his Lady Mayoress, Helen Mitchell?
- If he could change anything about the Lord Mayor’s role, what would it be?
- What advice would Jason give to an incoming Mayor or Mayoress?
All of these and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the bumpy politics podcast, the podcast where we discuss matters of national, |
| 0:06.4 | international and local importance in a calm, reasoned and balanced way. And it appears the |
| 0:12.4 | evening's motive is to get everything in different orders. So hopefully we'll try and bring |
| 0:17.0 | some orders to the chaos. I am Ian Tiny Morris. And I'm Simon Sandsbury and apologies |
| 0:22.6 | for the delay with us going live. So it's like technical issue. We're having a run of them. It's |
| 0:28.3 | just nature's way of telling us that it's too bloody hot. So what are we doing today, Ian? |
| 0:34.2 | Well, we're focusing in on Portsmouth today, as our name suggests, occasionally after strolling around various topics. |
| 0:42.1 | We've come back to a local issue and we are delighted to be joined this evening by Jason for Zachally, the recently ex-lord Mayor of Portsmouth. |
| 0:54.1 | Welcome Jason. Good evening, J-V mayor of Portsmouth. Welcome, Jason. |
| 0:55.7 | Good evening, Jube. |
| 0:56.5 | Thanks very much. |
| 0:58.2 | Thank you. |
| 0:58.9 | Marvel. |
| 0:59.2 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 1:00.1 | You're welcome. |
| 1:02.2 | So, perfect. |
| 1:04.8 | So you've just obviously had a year dashing about being the Lord mayor of portsmouth can he give us an insight |
| 1:14.8 | into your political journey and how did you come to hold such high office jason |
| 1:20.1 | which time it's the second time that i've undertaken the role. Last time was 20 years ago. |
| 1:27.9 | Oh, wow. |
| 1:28.3 | I'm not sure I'm going to make another 20, but I'll try and hang in there. |
| 1:32.1 | No, it comes around. |
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