What About Fratton - With Jacob Short?
Pompey Politics Podcast
Simon Sansbury and Ian 'Tiny' Morris
5 • 4 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Fratton is an urban area of Portsmouth and one of its 14 City Council Wards. Jacob Short has stood for election in Fratton twice as a Candidate for Portsmouth Independents Party.
We ask Jacob to tell us, What is it about Fratton?, What are the problems faced by its residents?
What are Jacob’s views on student housing, parking, HMOs, fly tipping, empty shops & crime?
Join us as Jacob Short tells us the truth of life in Fratton for its residents and shares how he hopes to make a difference.
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| 0:00.0 | It's 627 on Sunday the 6th of April and welcome to the Pompey Politics podcast, the show where we discuss matters of local, national and international political importance and get to the heart of the matter in a rational, reasonable and kindly way. I'm Ian Tiny Morris. |
| 0:21.2 | And I'm Simon Sandsbury. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm not sure which of us is the rational, |
| 0:24.9 | which of us the reasonable and which is the kind. |
| 0:26.6 | We're both be the kindly. |
| 0:28.5 | Well, there needs to be three of us for that to work. |
| 0:31.8 | Well, we're put an ad on LinkedIn or something. |
| 0:34.7 | So, yeah, we were national last week. We were international the week before. |
| 0:42.8 | So time to go local. |
| 0:44.5 | Time to go local and you can't get much more local than Fratton, which for anybody outside of Portsmouth in the UK is a ward in the in the center of the city |
| 0:55.2 | which we have a an impassioned community campaigner at Jacob Short to talk to us |
| 1:03.6 | about his um his life in campaigning and about the needs of the people the people in fratten so welcome |
| 1:10.2 | Jacob thank you um yeah well i don't know where and about the needs of the people in France. So welcome Jacob. |
| 1:11.4 | Thank you. |
| 1:12.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:13.7 | Well, I don't know if we could work that three in between and answer to which one, |
| 1:19.4 | but we'll work out through the course of the evening. |
| 1:24.1 | Yeah, we see why it ends up at the end. |
| 1:30.6 | And put a poll up. we'll put a we'll put a we put a poll up um so jacob let's get let's get crack right into it |
| 1:37.3 | so tell us about yourself what what got you involved into into politics and um and and and watch |
| 1:43.3 | your background so i mean oh this is what what I find funny when people ask me that question. |
| 1:49.0 | It's I never actually used to like politics. |
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