Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast.

I'm Ian Tiny Morris.

And I'm Simon Sandsbury.

Well, good evening, Simon, a decidedly local feel to the show tonight.

Yeah, indeed. We've got veteran campaigner Ruma Khan joining us this evening.

But yeah, we're swinging back a bit local.

And then next week we'll be casting on it a bit wider with a local tint.

Looking at the upcoming, sadly, the year since Ukraine

was a very big one there. So Ruhmel Kahn is joining us this evening. Good evening, Ruhmong.

Good evening. Good evening. And good morning, Simon.

Marvelous. And we thanks this evening to Raj, who has helped us through the technical difficulties, which is why we're just a couple of minutes late.

Thanks to all of them.

But no worries.

We get there with patience and perseverance. So thank you very much.

Yeah. Thank you for. So, yes, so here we are. So thank you very much. Yeah.

So yes. So here we are. We're in that countdown, aren't we to? We're looking towards May.

But let's have a look at what Ruhmall's got to say, his review of his time as a local activist. So he's been an activist from within the Bangladeshi community for over 20 years.

He's a proud member of the local Labour Party having stood as parliamentary candidate in Portsmouth North in

2017 and with 20 years of community activism under his belt and running businesses in Portsmouth,

welcome to the show, Ruhma. Thank you very much everyone. I'm Rimmel Khan.

I'm from the Bangladeshi community. I've lived in Portsmouth for nearly 30 years now.

You know, almost a local Pompeii.

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