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

And welcome to the show. If you're joining us live, it's Sunday evening, probably one of the

last shows we're going to do in the half light as the gloom gathers.

And although we're still not certain exactly when the general election is, Rishi's promised

this it won't be the 2nd of May. Simon's little pun on it being the end of Theresa May,

caught a few people out a couple of weeks ago. So we don't know when the general election is, but we are fortunately joined tonight by two

candidates who have already put their hands up and said, whenever it's going to happen,

we're going to be an option to vote for.

So Simon, can you introduce our guests?

Indeed. So we have the two reform prospective parliamentary candidates,

so poised and ready for the general election whenever someone decides to call it.

Place your bets as to when that might be.

I'm still not convinced it's not going to be in May.

We have Mark Zimmer, who was with us actually on the,

in the hustings last year for the local elections in East Dean Craneswater,

but it is the reform prospective parliamentary candidate for Portsmouth South.

Make sure I get those around the right way.

Welcome back, Mark. Welcome back Mark.

Welcome. And joining him from Jersey, so a mildly international flavour, is the reformed perspective

parliamentary candidate for Portsmouth North, which is Mel Todd. Welcome, Mel.

Thank you.

Okay, nice to have you both with us. So if we can dive

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