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Pompey Politics Podcast

Nelson 2023 - who gets your vote?

Pompey Politics Podcast

Simon Sansbury and Ian 'Tiny' Morris

News, News Commentary, Politics

5.04 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Who gets your vote in the Portsmouth Nelson ward of Nelson in May's local elections? We're joined by two of the candidates vying for your votes: Duncan Robinson (Green) & Lee Hunt (Liberal Democrats). Unfortunately we were not able to secure Robin Head (Labour), Kerryanne Swann (Conservative), Henry Thorpe (Portsmouth Independents Party)

Transcript

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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.

0:14.0

Welcome, Chumsden, for those to view that couldn't get enough and wait until next Sunday when there's a next hustings.

0:20.2

We brought you a bonus midweek

0:21.7

hustings brought to you by the good candidates of Nelson. So we have two guests with us this

0:28.2

evening. So we have Councillor Lee Hunt from the Liberal Democrats. Welcome, Lee. Good evening.

0:34.6

And Duncan Robinson from the Greens.

0:38.6

Hi, good evening.

0:39.5

Marvelous. I'm never sure, I'm never sure, Duncan, whether it is the Greens or the Green Party these days.

0:45.0

I guess, provided you're known as Green, then they're more than happy.

0:49.5

So, well, I'm not familiar with Nelson.

0:53.1

I'll just give a quick overview of what we know.

0:56.8

And then hopefully, I'll just give a quick address the slight technical issues,

1:00.9

and we should then be ready to rock and roll with questions and answers.

1:04.5

So the Nelson Award is one of those awards like we had at the weekend,

1:10.3

where St Jude, where most people in

1:12.6

Portsmouth who were not political aficionados were driving in on the M27 if you left

1:18.7

Watson Ward predominantly taking in all of Tickner and then sort of running down almost until

1:25.1

you get to the ferry port so it's it's kind of just above Charles Dickens.

1:30.9

In terms of its political history, it has been a strong reward for the Liberal Democrats.

1:36.7

They have won the last three, about the last four elections there, with their share of the vote coming in, sort of 43 to 46%,

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