Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics podcast.

I'm Ian Tini Morris.

And I'm Simon Sandsbury.

Well, it's Guy Fawkes weekend and it seems like the,

there are people tunnelling under Simon's mixer desk looking to blow it up.

So are we confident we're live there, Simon?

Yes, we are indeed live.

I've indeed not got notifications to say the same yes.

Oh, well, this is excellent news.

All of these things were planned.

And rather than it being another bonfire weekend where we throw various Tory party infighting and issues and elections of leaders onto the flaming pyre of fun, we thought we'd go a bit local and invite a friend of the podcast back on.

So Mr. George Mademick, Councillor Madgwick

for Paulsgrove, welcome back. Hello, how you doing? Yes, very well. I always like it

these days when we focus on local issues, much nicer for me. Simon perhaps likes to keep the issue

agenda at a national level, but, um, but, um, yeah, it's, uh, it's the local stuff that matters. That's what the listeners want.

Yeah, we'll ask both of them. Um, but, um, yeah, nice to have you back on, George. Welcome.

Thank you.

So we've got a full council coming up this week. A reasonably scant agenda again, but so George, we thought we'd invite you on as team Pip seemed to have a few motions.

This month, I mean, yes, I was quite surprised as well to be fair they all the

democratic services team always keep their cards quite close their chest and I didn't say

to them before the agenda come out so we've got a busy one they said we've got a few in kind of

thing and I thought right I didn't think they meant one plus ours so yeah it's a it's a real

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