Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast. I'm Ian Tiny Morris. And I'm Simon Sandspring.

And welcome to 2024 and the first edition of the Pompey Politics podcast. The astute amongst you,

a listening live,

might notice that we do pre-record that bit.

So it's not quite evening,

even though the light is fading at just 20 past two

on a Sunday afternoon.

So great to be back and lovely to have a couple

of fantastic guests and friends of the podcast.

So Simon, welcome back. New Year.

Yes. All full of aspirations or all those New Year's resolutions already in Tatars.

I've kind of learned enough by now not to bother making any because I always break them.

But I guess the best resolution this year would be

would be a change of government right oh stop it stop it somebody had a somebody had a dodgy

christmas ah I thought he'd wait a little bit but anyway go on introduce guests. So we are joined this afternoon.

So, yes, as our regular listeners, we'll notice we're a slight detail from our normal schedule.

So we're joined this afternoon by the fabulous two of the three fabulous councillors for Charles Dickens Ward in Portsmouth.

So we're joined with Councillor Calcourri.

Good afternoon, everyone. And Councillor Yinka Adenoran. Good afternoon, everyone.

Okay, welcome, welcome both. So just to remind anybody that doesn't know about Charles Dickens Ward,

so it literally is the very, very heart of the city contains the commercial road

buckland portsea victoria park the historic dockyard the birthplace of charles dickens hence the

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