Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast. I'm Ian Tini Morris. And I'm Simon Sandsbury.

Local issues. Focus on local issues. This is what today's show's about. No mention of

anything national. People are tired of that. Let's focus on the local.

Okay. Well, we're definitely going to do our best to be focusing on the local today because you don't get much more local than a full council meeting.

Oh, isn't it? And a rich tapestry. Like Wagner's ring cycle, but slightly longer.

Yeah.

Or Wagner's washing machine on a rinse cycle.

So, yes, but this month's full council meeting was a rescheduled full council meeting that had had to have been postponed due to the morning period for the Queen.

So there was also a trimmed down AGM.

AGM, no, sorry, there was a trimmed down number of notices of motion.

We know that normally there's quite a plethora, a panoply,

a spattering of motions from across the political spectrum. But this one had a grand

total of a grand total of four. Yes.

So there were two for the red, two for the blues.

The Lib Dems decided not to add to extending the meeting any longer but not submitting any.

So, yes.

Must mention the purples, nothing from the purples either.

The purples?

We don't have any purples.

What colours are the independents? Grey.

Are they grey? Yeah. Oh, I thought they were purple.

Well, they're grey according to their logo on their, on the electoral website. Anywho, so um yes so essentially um it's a much shorter affair than it normally is but actually interestingly lots of the things that we normally talk

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