Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast, the podcast where we tackle matters of national,

international and local importance in a measured, reasonable and kind way to get to the heart of the matter.

It's party season and I'm Ian Tiny Morris.

And I'm Simon Sandsbury and although neither of us have been to conference, we've

speaking to some, we've spoken to some people, um, that, that have. So can, so can talk

on to the, but yes, the main national parties. Um, so we have, we're, we're not,

I'm afraid spending any time on applied to Camroo or on, uh, or on not, I'm afraid, spending any time on Plied Camru or on or on the S&P.

But we look at what is now a very crowded field of the major five in British politics.

How things have changed. Only a couple of years ago we would have only had to deal with three and would have been able to brush some of the others aside it's not

important but no five party conferences to look after and in an auspicious

start you've forgotten how to say the word people and I couldn't remember the word

conference so hopefully it's going to get better from here I promise you we

have not been at the Christmas Sherry early so it's going to get better from here. I promise you we have not been at the Christmas sherry early.

So it's been going on for a few weeks.

And obviously the great and the good and the faithful gather

to gird their loins and nourish their souls

before they head off into another year of politicking.

So where did the season start? So the season started

way back, way back with reform on the 5th and 6th of September. They had theirs at the

at the NEC in Birmingham.

So we kind of started off with them.

So should we kind of, just before I kind of leap into kind of doing those,

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