Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast.

I'm Ian Tini Morris.

And I'm Simon Sandsbury.

Well, another turbulent and stormy week in both politics and real life.

How are you doing, Simon?

Well, this one, aha.

So, yeah, I'm all right, other than a hectic week,

obviously dealing with the wind,

but I didn't get blown away, just dealing with stuff.

My lights have flickered a couple of times,

so if I disappear, I've got about

two minutes to come back into the live stream before the live stream will automatically end,

but you guys carry on if I disappear and see how find you back. Yeah, we'll basket as far as we can.

The rain is hammering down on the roof of my office, which is better than Friday when the roof of my house rained down on the roof of my office.

No real damage done and bless a local roofer ATF roofing who came out and made us watertight yesterday morning

and hopefully is going to fix me later in the week but yeah we got here in one piece and so

we're looking at the choppy waters ahead financially in terms of lots of lots of numbers and as we know

we are to numbers what a cow is to a musket so um who have we got, Simon? So we've welcome back to the show. Our very own

lecturer of economics, Simon Foster. Welcome back, Simon. Hi guys, good to see you again. Hope you both well.

We are doing. are extremely. Yeah.

Now I guess some of my first question is as somebody who lectures on economics are these kind of

turbulent times and unprecedented things that we haven't seen before. Does this get your economics juices flowing?

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