Alexa, what time is it?

It's 6.27 p.m.

And welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast.

And hello till we die. I'm Ian Tiny Morris.

And I'm Simon Sandsbury.

Okay. Okay, so here we are Ian, we've had a break, and we're back.

Yes, we are back entirely, as you say, after a rollercoaster weather of the Great British Summer,

eating out to help out, all those good things.

And yeah, we're back with a political hot potato, a spud of such monumental, warm tubber-based nature.

We really had to do a pod this week, didn't we?

Well, we'd scheduled to be back this week. So that was a strange bit of forward thinking and forward planning on our behalf but to be fair to us

the government are doing a good job of giving us things to talk about but I'm sure that's not

their reasons it's it's gonna yeah I mean I don't think that's entirely behind the reasoning behind

recent events.

But, you know, luckily it's given us something to kick about.

It has indeed.

So I see we've already got Lynn joining us in the chat.

So welcome back, Lynn.

Hope you haven't missed us too much.

So we've got some stuff on today.

So what are we talking about today, Ian? Well, we'll have a look at on this day, see what the 23rd of August did in years gone by.

We've then got the great Simonometer, which is as we thunder towards the time where you have to cast your stone for either Ed Davey or the other one.

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