Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast.

I'm Ian Tiny Morris.

And I'm Simon Sandsbury.

Evening, Chum, and also Enid Blighton has decided my cat has decided that she wishes to make an appearance on today's show

so we know we've got at least one extra fan involved. Excellent. Well, um, cats are always good

at judging people. So, or, you know, usually quite harsh. Yeah. Yeah, it's good to know that

you've got one on your side.

So our plan today had originally been to go with two Supreme Court judgments, one on the AQUint Pipeline,

but the Supreme Court decided to defer a decision on that.

So that's an area that it's been running and running for a couple of

years, but we will pick that one up in a future show, will we not? Yeah, indeed. We've touched

based with our, with our friends, Let's Stop Aquind and they're indeed actually having a meeting

tonight. So I'm sure we'll hear from them and we'll see what news there is in the world of

telling Aquind to stick it up their trench basically.

Well indeed yes, rather than our trench specifically through the centre of our fair city.

But we did get one Supreme Court ruling, did we not?

Our friends from Scotland petitioned the Supreme Court to say, go on. Can we have another independence vote, please?

And the Supreme Court said, no. No, you can't. No, the Supreme Court ruling was basically, it wasn't quite so Dickensian, but it was, it was essentially that it's not a devolved matter as it wasn't in 2014.

2014 required basically an act of parliament to enable the the legislation I think it was a section 30 to be passed to the to

to Hollywood for them for them to be able to actually hold the referendum so it was held with Westminster's support in 2014 and this time that support is not forthcoming no and I guess as we get

into this and it may stun viewers to understand that we do do a little bit of research before we

leap into such topics only to the fact that neither you nor I are fundamentally Scottish in any way

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