Police and Crime Commissioner elections

Guinness · 06-10-2012, 18:34

Police and crime commissioners | Home Office

Strange how this has gone under the radar in the media. I don't recall reading much about it until I clicked a link on the LT page.

Need to be have 100 signatures and £5000 to risk...but the job pays £85000 a year....

Anyone up for it?

Less · 06-10-2012, 18:43

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Originally Posted by Guinness

Police and crime commissioners | Home Office

Strange how this has gone under the radar in the media. I don't recall reading much about it until I clicked a link on the LT page.

Need to be have 100 signatures and £5000 to risk...but the job pays £85000 a year....

Anyone up for it?

Yeah I am 'erm just lend me 5K.
Cheaper than a job training course.

Guinness · 06-10-2012, 19:44

Spent the last half hour or so reading the bumf, seems to me it's another 'jobs for the boys' post, where yet more bureaucrats without any significant power, attend a few meetings, make a prepared speech or two, write the occasional review and are paid from the taxation pit.

Don't expect parking on Blackburn Road or clearing the town centre of undesirables will figure highly on the agenda.

And Less, if you'd asked me earlier I'd have lent you the £5k but the wife just cleaned me out on a blue rinse and voting for some talentless muppet on Strictly X factor

Less · 06-10-2012, 19:52

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Originally Posted by Guinness

And Less, if you'd asked me earlier I'd have lent you the £5k but the wife just cleaned me out on a blue rinse and voting for some talentless muppet on Strictly X factor

Not a problem, I couldn't have given a decent speech, or written a review without actually giving away the fact that I actually do give a damn, so I'm just not fit for the job.

Lucysgirl · 06-10-2012, 22:41

Along with a pile of kebab adverts landing on my doormat, I've already received preliminary electioneering bumph which I haven't read except to take a cursory glance at one leaflet which gave a closing date if I wanted to vote by post and if so I had to give my date of birth.

cmonstanley · 07-10-2012, 12:02

bungs bungs and more bungs .the countries skint supposedly but they still waste money on this

Wynonie Harris · 07-10-2012, 15:20

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Originally Posted by cmonstanley

bungs bungs and more bungs .the countries skint supposedly but they still waste money on this

...of course, there were none of these useless commissions, quangos and jobs for the boys when your lot were in power.

Chris SUI JURIS · 08-10-2012, 13:49

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Originally Posted by cmonstanley

bungs bungs and more bungs .the countries skint supposedly but they still waste money on this

I believe the country to be bankrupt (Chapter 11 bankruptcy=beyond skint)

cashman · 08-10-2012, 18:40

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Originally Posted by Chris SUI JURIS

I believe the country to be bankrupt (Chapter 11 bankruptcy=beyond skint)

Bull -the peasants will always struggle along, The rich never will, but will bitch about hard times.

ToffeeGuy · 22-10-2012, 13:24

In case you don't get the message.

MargaretR · 22-10-2012, 13:39

How very jolly

I wonder how much that propaganda cost us.

I get the impression that we are 'being talked down to' - anyone else feel that this is an insult to their intelligence?

cashman · 22-10-2012, 13:42

Who wants a message like that?

Chris SUI JURIS · 22-10-2012, 14:15

1 word on Police and Crime Commissioner elections.....liability

Margaret Pilkington · 22-10-2012, 14:16

I have only had the voting cards, but nothing at all from the candidates.......and with something like 3 weeks (or just a little over) that doesn't give much time to look at what they stand for.

Afzal Anwar - Liberal Democrats
Tim Ashton - Conservative
Robert Drobny - UK Independent Party
Clive Grunshaw - Labour
With nomiations now closed, the above is a list of candidates.
and the following link gives a very small potted history about each of them.
BBC News - Lancashire police and crime commissioner candidates

Impressive, it isn't.
This is just another layer of unwarranted bureaucracy....a ploy to let the public think they will have some control over the policing in their own little patch.
I know I am a cynical burger, but why do these men have to have a political affiliation?
Will their political affiliation appeal to the electors? Will it affect their stance on how the police do their job?
Personally I doubt that they will have any effect, other than that of draining the pot of money, for what should be spent on 'feet on the street'.

cashman · 22-10-2012, 14:25

To put it bluntly which is not my thing. "Its the biggest load of tits since sabrina"