Three of Six - General Election Specials - Gerald Vernon-Jackson

Pompey Politics Podcast

Simon Sansbury and Ian 'Tiny' Morris

Politics, News, News Commentary

5 • 4 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The third of what we hope will be six interviews with the major party candidates in Portsmouth's two constituencies. This episode, Gerald Vernon-Jackson, Liberal Democrat candidate for Portsmouth South. All guests will be presented with two introductory questions plus three they choose at random from the Pompey Politics Pot Of Pondering. • Each guest is invited to introduce themselves and give an insight into why they got involved in politics. • We’ll invite guests to provide a brief description of where they stand on Brexit. Guest will then select three questions at random from the Pompey Politics Pot of Pondering. The full question list is: 1. Turnout in 2017 GE was 69%. How do we increase voter participation in our democracy. 2. If cost wasn’t an object what physical changes would you make to parliament. 3. FPTP – protector of our democratic institutions, or a burden. 4. If tomorrow you were Chancellor of the Exchequer - what would be your first act. 5. Name the policy of your political opponents you like the most – and why. 6. Which one of your Parties Policies are you most proud of (no Brexit answers) 7. If you could change anything about the 2016 referendum (excluding the result() what would it be? 8. What do you admire most about one of the other main party candidates standing against you? 9. Do you think the NHS will always remain free at point of use?

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0:00.0	And welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast.
0:02.7	Blue and Yellow till we die.
0:04.2	I'm Ian Tiny Morris.
0:05.5	And I'm Simon Sandsbury.
0:07.3	And we are here with Gerald Allen Jackson.
0:15.9	Welcome, Gerald.
0:17.1	Indeed.
0:18.0	Welcome.
0:18.8	So I'm outnumbered today by the yellow team. I'm glad to hit it. Indeed. They should always be the case. Well, it happens periodically. To be fair, it was Simon's turn yesterday to be outnumbered and I'm sure we'll enjoy ourselves today. So Gerald, just to start us off, obviously, current leader of Portsmouth City Council in the fantastic three-way marginal that is Portsmouth South. Would you like to introduce yourself and give us a bit of your background and how are you come to be standing for election in our fair city?
0:50.9	Okay, so I'm now in my 12th year of being leader of the council in Portsworth, I'm in two stints.
0:59.7	So 10 years being leader, then four years when Donna Jones was leader, a conservative leader,
1:08.7	voted in by the UKIP councillors and the Labour councillors
1:13.6	on Portsworth City Council.
1:15.6	And then I'm year and three quarters into a second term as leader, voted in by the Lib Dems and by Labour councillors.
1:28.3	And what else do you need to know about me?
1:31.3	So I do a variety of different things.
1:34.3	I've been involved in local government for a long time,
1:38.3	so I've been a councillor for almost 30 years.
1:41.3	I'm, but I do quite a lot of work in London on behalf of all the councils so I share the
1:49.3	Culture Tourism of Sport Board so I speak up on behalf of all the councils in the country on
1:54.2	culture tourism and sport so my job is to lobby ministers and and different organisations to do with that.
2:02.5	So we've been doing quite a lot of work looking, for instance, at the visitor economy
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