Pompey Politics Podcast

Ian & Simon share their views and insight into the potential July 19th unlocking. Is it too much too soon? Will people continue to wear face masks once they are no longer mandatory in shops & public transport? Will the hospitality industry find enough staff to cope with the increase in custom? Are those on the least wages being asked to take the most risk?

Ian & Simon cast their beedy eyes over events at the PCC Planning meeting from June 29th, where HMOs and Park & Ride carparks were on the agenda before turning their critical analysis towards the recent Batley & Spen by-election.

In the last of their series welcoming newly elected councillors onto the show, Ian & Simon welcome Daniel Wemyss, Conservative Councillor for Hilsea to tell us about his first month (or so).

Ian & Simon welcome three guests onto the show; Alex Dutton from Portsmouth Party DJ & PopKids - to talk about the delayed release from lockdown, David Fuller - Care home manager to talk about mandating covid19 vacinations in care home staff, and Matthew Winnington to talk about NHS sharing patient data.

Ian and Simon invite newly elected councillor for Milton & cabinet member for Climate Change and Green Recovery, Kimberly Barrett onto the show to ask her how her first month (ish) has gone.

Ian & Simon welcome back to the show, newly elected Councillor for Charles Dickens ward, Kirsty Mellor. We ask her how her first month as a councillor has gone and what's next.

Ian & Simon reveal who got to run Portsmouth City Council when Full Council voted on a motion of no confidence in its leader. They also delve into the revelations of spurned SPAD Dominic Cummings before casting their eyes and opinions eastwards to Belarus and ask if their airspace is safe.

Ian & Simon welcome back to the podcasts, man-of-the-hour, newly elected Cllr George Madgwick (Paulsgrove). As the source of one of the two major shock results from Thursday's local elections in Portsmouth, George talks to us about how hard work and straight talking convinced the good folk of Paulsgrove to give him 49% of the vote, and increase turnout by nearly 8 points - and what this means for...

Ian cracks open his spreadsheet to tell us how he thinks the local elections in Portsmouth will go - Simon doesn't always agree. Also covered this episode, the seemingly unassailable Conservative support in the Hartlepool by-election & the Hampshire & IOW Police & Crime Commission elections as well as the arrangements Portsmouth city council have in place to make counting the ballots Covid secure...

Central Southsea Ward hustings with Charlie Douglas (Con), Charlotte Gerada (Lab), & Steve Pitt (Lib Dem).

Our penultimate virtual hustings with Dr Renu Raj (Conservatives) & Kirsty Mellor(Labour) candidates for Charles Dickens ward in Portsmouth who face question submitted from the public.

Craig Withey (Labour) & Matthew Winnington (Liberal Democrats) answer questions submitted by the public as they both campaign to be elected to serve Eastney & Craneswater ward on May 6th. Please note due to technical issues with one of the candidates connection we have cut our some parts when this was being worked on - but not any candidate responses.

Hampshire & IOW Police & Crime Commissioner Hustings - with questions submitted by our listeners. Richard Murphy - Liberal Democrats. Tony Sunday - Labour. Steve James-Bailey Hampshire Independents.

Ian & Simon present the first of their five virtual hustings for May's elections. Guests today are Paulsgrove candidates George Madgwick - Independent. George Brown - Liberal Democrat & Dr Mark Farwell - Labour & a submitted written statement from Tony Hewitt - Conservatives.

This episode of the podcast combine live broadcasts from Sunday 28th and Tuesday 30th March to cover the subjects frustrated by technical issues on the regular Sunday broadcast. The boys take another swing at whether councils should be allowed to continue to meet virtually and another jab at the EU / UK vaccine spat - including recorded interviews with Cllrs Gerald Vernon-Jackson & Terry Norton wi...

Join us as we have a look how the votes went on the motions we'd covered last week when they came before Full Council on Tuesday 16th March. We'll also have a look at the government's attempt to make protestors 'shut up and go away'.

In a change to their planned show Simon & Ian review three of the notices of motion due to be discussed on Tuesday's Full Council meeting - Support the Climate and Environmental Emergency Bill, Thank our government for the vaccine rollout & Right to food.

Ian & Simon take a look inside Rishi Sunak's red box - and give their view on this week's budget. Was it a thumbs up from Ian & Simon? Did the Chancelor of the Exchequer go too far, or not far enough?

Ian and Simon welcome back Reverend Amy Webb to the show to udpdate us on Cosham Larder - which opened its doors this week. They also have a look at the government's road map to release the country from the Covid restrictions. Find out more about Cosham Larder here: https://coshamlarder.wildapricot.org

Ian & Simon get into Facebook publicly unfriending the Australian government over their new media law, asking if Portsmouth council meetings need the Jackie Weaver treatment and if the MOD recognising it needs to correct stripping service personnel of medals when they were discharged for being LGBT.

Ian & Simon invite back Jerry 'The Inquisitor' Brown to give the Inquisitor's verdict on the miraculously short Full Council Budget meeting of February 9th. He also talks to us about councils investing money with a history of poor results in a desperate attempt to fund services on the back of a decade of Central Government cuts to local council funding.

Ian and Simon muse on the impending Portsmouth Council Budget meeting February 9th as well the whispers of govermnent preparations for the May 6th Local & Police & Crime Commissioner Elections before touching on Ian's facebook exchange with Billy Bragg and his fans. The Larry & Paul video we loved can be found with all their stuff on Youtube: https://youtube.com/c/larryandpaul

This week we welcome Peter Hopkinson from Island City Living & About My Area to talk about taking over the digital community presence in a time of unprecedented crisis.

Ian & Simon ask if President Biden's 30 executive powers in his first two days in office bode well for US politics and the future of the country, they also revisit the upcoming May local elections, can they be safe, and fair, and free if candidates can't campaign?

Ian and Simon explore whether they think the May 6th local and Police & Crime Commissioner elections should go ahead or be delayed again - to the agonised screams of exhausted political campaigners across the UK. They also ask if delivering political leaflets during a pandemic is sensible.