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 with live interview with Kimberly Barrett about planning submissions for St James where the developer claims to be unable to provide affordable housing on a project due to provide £18million profit.

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.