Returning from our extended summer break, we’ll take a look at political events of note since our last show. 

Has anything of note happened in local & national politics since the heady early morning hours of July 5th? 

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What did we miss?

I desperately searched for this for months and finally found it, might just share it here in case it gets lost

Glaze - Fruits Of Her Labour (Instrumental)

We take a look at Tuesday's (15th October 2024) Full Council meeting of Portsmouth City Council.   Should the council call on the government to think again about the Winter Fuel Allowance cuts?   Should the council call on the government to prevent NHS dentists just shutting up shop leaving their patients without dental health care?   Should the council ask Hants & IOW Police & Crime Commissioner to speed up DBS checks getting in the way of appointing PCC staff to support residents in need?   Should PCC be investing more taxpayer's money into Portico (the council owned shipping company)?

Full Agenda: https://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?MId=5327&x=1

Watch the council meeting in full at:https://youtu.be/HKrd5XKSTAs

Links to specific motions available on www.pppodcast.uk

Pompey Politics Podcast

Review: Full Council 151024

Solidarity 722, 23 October 2024. Articles:
Squeeze the millionaires!
Gaza is starving
March against racism on 26 October!
Employment Bill is too weak
Justice and Chris Kaba
Confusion about investment and divestment
Gaza: end the war
Israel out of Lebanon!
Building solidarity and hope
Evolution Gaming: this strike matters
Are there no rights to defend in the USA?
New laws and domestic abuse
Transition call taken to Treasury
Grangemouth: public ownership!
Campaign prospects in Higher Education
Howard Beckett: now what will his backers say?
David Miller not vindicated
Dangers in the Cass Report
Blasphemy rights are human rights
Forerunners of socialism in the early nineteenth century
Even more modern times
Fight the PCS clampdown!
Different shifts, different worlds
A “gun control” film
Support Tube workers’ pay strikes
Scottish school workers strike on pay
Overground, Liz Line, DLR, Trams: End privatisation!

More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-722-23-october-2024

Solidarity

722 — Squeeze the millionaries: Make Labour tax rich to rebuild services | Gaza | Racism | Cass

Solidarity 723, 30 October 2024. Articles:
    Stop the war! Two states!
    What would be a workers’ Budget?
    Ceasefire now!
    Civil service: fight “60%” rule
    After 26 October, organise against far right
    Support self-determination for Taiwan!
    A counterproductive protest
    Putin’s victory, Georgia’s nightmare
    Socialist answers on domestic violence
    Sheffield university seeks cuts for £54m shortfall
    Water: public ownership, not “proper prices”
    Over 40 now jailed for protests
    Two million may starve in Sudan
    Solidarity, not cultural boycott
    Abolish these indefinite sentences!
    Debate: His own Chief of Staff calls Trump “fascist”
    Forerunners of socialism in the early nineteenth century
    Disinformation is the fifth horseman
    Stop Trump, build working-class politics
    Debate: How to vote in the “safe” states
    Polish left party splits
    Debate: Off-beam on “Lady of Heaven”
    How to gauge who you trust
    Rebuild NHS, roll back contracting-out
    Foreign “accents” in films
    Tube pay: a small shift by bosses

More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-723-30-october-2024

723 — It's a bosses' budget: Fight for workers' budgets! | Water | Sudan | Trump | More

With Labour's first budget for 14 years freshly released & out in the open we take a look at the key policies. 

Now we've finally heard what was, and wasn't in it. What sticks out? Who are the winners & losers? How will it affect you?  Where there any surprised? 

Photo credit: Lauren Hurley

Budget special

Rachel Reeves’ first budget promises to be one of the most consequential in years. Shortly after the chancellor addresses parliament, IfG experts examined her announcements and make sense of Reeves’ plans for the economy. 

What decisions has she taken on new fiscal rules, tax measures and public services? What does this budget mean for the government’s growth mission? Does Reeves have a credible plan for fixing the public spending “black hole”? And what does this budget reveal about this government’s priorities?

The panel included:

Stuart Hoddinott, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Government
Thomas Pope, Deputy Chief Economist at the Institute for Government
Giles Wilkes, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government
The event was chaired by Jill Rutter, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government. 

What did Rachel Reeves’ budget reveal about the government’s priorities?

On this week’s No Accounting for Taste, it’s all things Budget. We are joined by Sophie Hossack, head of partnerships at Allica Bank and Dan Heelan, director of Heelan Associates to break down and digest Rachel Reeves’s first Budget.

The panel shares their general thoughts on the Budget, the main tax changes, measures hidden within the Red Book and what impact these will have. 

No Accounting for Taste ep175: A Labour Budget Special

How easy is Portsmouth as a city for disabled people to get around for work, study or leisure? 

What barriers to their freedom are disabled people encountering in Portsmouth? What can be done to remove or reduce the barriers?

We welcome Georgina Fry from Portsmouth’s Disability Advisory Group to hear what the challenges are, and what is being done to help. 

Portsmouth Disability Advisory Group
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61563355431337

Portsmouth Wheelchair Access Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/portsmouthwag/

PCPA (Portsmouth Carers and Personal Assistants)
https://www.facebook.com/PortsmouthCPA

Is Portsmouth a disability friendly city?

Produced by High Frequency, Leave is an emotive take on the social effect that the EU Referendum has had on Britain as a nation from a personal perspective. 



Reload - Leave Radio Edit (Eu Referendum)

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Born and raised in the Industrial Midland City of Wolverhampton,  Reload is a highly creative musician with a unique sense of lyricism, story telling and Urban Poetry that is illustrated over a wide variety of tempos.  

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Two brothers-in-law, Ian Morris and Simon Sansbury from Portsmouth (UK) talk about local and national politics without the point scoring.

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