Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast.

I'm Ian Tini Morris.

And I'm Simon Sandsbury.

Well, good evening if you're listening along live.

If you're obviously listening to us on a podcast, I have no idea what the time is.

But we are back this week with a veritable schmorgas board of topics for us to kick about.

As you know, we tend to focus on the local, but we're not afraid sometimes to jump into national issues.

And in the last couple of weeks, I think it would be fair to say

Simon there has been plenty yeah they say a week is a long time in politics and

for some it probably goes on about 13 days yes there's been a lot of things happening

over the over the last week or so so So what are we going to tackle first then,

mate? We've got a smorgas board to look at. We've got a bit of Truss, Anderson, Galloway,

and a bit of Hoyle. Yes, Truss, Anderson, Galloway and Hoyle, a very disreputable firm of accountants,

if ever there were some, that will go all the way back to the 22nd of February and a right

royal row that broke out in Parliament. And this was one of those things where, you know, some

accuses of just talking nonsense but genuinely

there are times when we have to do a bit of research so we dug into this for people who remember

the row or for those who don't so effectively periodically during Parliament there is an opposition day where the opposition parties get to sort of table motions and debates back on Wednesday the 22nd of February it was the opposition day for the Scottish National Party and they have been very vocal in terms of looking to debate the state of Gaza and Israel,

and they tabled a motion calling for an immediate ceasefire. Now this is something that they did back in November, at that point 56 I think Labour MPs rebelled and voted for the SMP motion.

So that's the kind of background.

Now in terms of the sort of procedure is that because it's the SMP's day, the SMP motion gets debated.

Usually there are amendments put in by the opposition party, so Labor put in an amendment,

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