Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast.

I'm Ian Tiny Morris.

And I'm Simon Sandsbury.

And welcome.

Last podcast before the end of term.

Yes, yes.

We've brought all our favourite games in. Well, and i guess that's the question isn't it we

looked last week at the full council meeting on tuesday and with 12 or 11 notices of motion and some

other fairly meaty topics there it would appear that the the sweepake was out as to, you know, what time Wednesday

morning it was going to finish. And if you add to that, the searing heat of Tuesday, there was

genuine fear for some of our councillors. But I guess we'll explore today whether searing heat and the prospect of heat exhaustion focuses the mind,

as I believe everybody was out by about half-bush-nine.

Yeah, six and three-quarter hours the meeting was, considering there were, what, 13 items on the agenda,

and one of those items, which was the notices of motion, had 11 items.

And there were also five questions from members. So it was not exactly an empty agenda, but they managed to sweep through it.

So I don't know.

Maybe it's an argument for making the council chamber less comfortable in future so that people get through and motivated to get through things.

I don't know.

We've got some councillors on, so maybe we can ask them whether they'd consent to that or not.

They might not think. Well, we'll ask them first-handed consent to that or not. We'll ask them firsthand.

First, an apology to the listeners.

If my voice is not sounding its usual, lovely, waxy and lyrical tone, it was a day of cricket yesterday, and I had to skip the side.

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