One of Six - General Election Specials - Donna Jones

Pompey Politics Podcast

Simon Sansbury and Ian 'Tiny' Morris

Politics, News, News Commentary

5 • 4 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The first of what we hope will be six interviews with the major party candidates in Portsmouth's two constituencies. This episode, Donna Jones, Conservative party candidate in Portsmouth South. All guests will be presented with two simple questions plus three they choose at random from the Pompey Politics Pot Of Pondering. • Each guest is invited to introduce themselves and give an insight into why they got involved in politics. • We’ll invite guests to provide a brief description of where they stand on Brexit. Guest will then select three questions at random from the Pompey Politics Pot of Pondering. The full question list is: 1. Turnout in 2017 GE was 69%. How do we increase voter participation in our democracy. 2. If cost wasn’t an object what physical changes would you make to parliament. 3. FPTP – protector of our democratic institutions, or a burden. 4. If tomorrow you were Chancellor of the Exchequer - what would be your first act. 5. Name the policy of your political opponents you like the most – and why. 6. Which one of your Parties Policies are you most proud of (no Brexit answers) 7. If you could change anything about the 2016 referendum (excluding the result() what would it be? 8. What do you admire most about one of the other main party candidates standing against you? 9. Do you think the NHS will always remain free at point of use?

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0:00.0	And welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast. Blue and Yellow till we die.
0:09.7	And welcome. It is our first general election special and it is not just myself Simon and the
0:16.6	eponymous Millsy. I'd like to introduce the conservative candidate for Portsmouth south
0:20.9	Donna Jones welcome hello the first our first female guest on the pod I think
0:26.9	sign yes so I do like to be a fast you are blazing a trail and so Donna introduce
0:35.1	yourself and how did you come to get into politics?
0:38.3	Well, thank you for having me. Thank you for inviting me.
0:41.3	Pleasure to be here this morning, particularly to meet Millsy, the beautiful, beautiful
0:45.3	retriever dog that lives here with Ian. So how did I get into politics? Well, I had two children, one in 2003 and one in 2005 and I'd worked in
0:57.5	banking up until that point and I had a career break which I was very lucky to
1:01.6	have sort of two or three years off with the kids and then I did the FSA change a
1:06.0	lot of the banking regulation when I had my career break so I had to retake a number of my banking investment exams.
1:14.6	I did that for 12 months. I went back to work and I really, really didn't like it at all.
1:20.6	Actually my priorities having had kids are completely changed. I wanted to give something back.
1:25.6	Chasing profits and, you know, looking at the share price of your company just didn't really appeal to me at all anymore.
1:32.3	And so I gave up my job, my career. I started volunteering. I became a magistrate.
1:38.3	And when I was appointed, I was the youngest magistrate in the country. I was 27 when I was appointed.
1:46.2	And there happened to be a by-election in Drayton Ward, in the ward where I live. And someone
1:51.2	came and knocked on my door, Councillor Simon Boecher. And he said, Donna, you know, he didn't
1:55.7	actually know me, but tell me, Mrs. Jones, do you normally vote Conservative? And I said,
1:59.2	well, yes, I do. And actually, I'd quite like to get involved.
2:02.6	And within a year, I was deputy chairman
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