Voting Police commissioner on 15th

For those complaining about lack of information, did you not see the many TV ads they did, which gave you a link that lists the people running in your area and their experience, goals etc...

I'm not saying it couldn't have been much better, but in kent at least it was easy to see who is running and why, it's just a shame that none of the people running could put together a decent page of info about their experience and plans, and all of the candidates other than labour/conservative only cared about screaming "vote for me because i'm not playing party politics!" and yet had no info or plans on local issues.
 
Voting for police commissioners was a stupid idea to begin with. It has nothing to do with ignorance or apathy, it's do with it being a stupid idea.

Call me crazy, but I'd rather not have political stooges running the police. I'd rather have experienced police officers doing it. Radical, I know.

I spoiled my ballot paper.
 
SlyReaper said:
Call me crazy, but I'd rather not have political stooges running the police. I'd rather have experienced police officers doing it. Radical, I know.
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Politicians did the same job as the PCC as Police Authorities. The difference is there is one now rather than a panel of local Councillors.
 
SlyReaper said:
Call me crazy, but I'd rather not have political stooges running the police. I'd rather have experienced police officers doing it. Radical, I know.
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You could have voted for a candidate that had those attributes (if there was one that was standing, and there was for my area).
 
Dist said:
For those complaining about lack of information, did you not see the many TV ads they did, which gave you a link that lists the people running in your area and their experience, goals etc...

I'm not saying it couldn't have been much better, but in kent at least it was easy to see who is running and why, it's just a shame that none of the people running could put together a decent page of info about their experience and plans, and all of the candidates other than labour/conservative only cared about screaming "vote for me because i'm not playing party politics!" and yet had no info or plans on local issues.
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I am sorry, I do not watch broadcast television, lowest common denominator brainwashing medium that it is. I do however peruse the web. What is interesting is that in this world perspective, the really important things do filter through. The only difference is you are not subject to the majority of utter drivel (think daily mail) that pads out the actual relevant bits.

I will put it this way. The vote was yesterday, and I have no idea what a police commissioner actually is. Not a single thing filtered through. Scale of caring? Negative infinity.
 
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TheMightyTen said:
But break it up into the respective constituencies and see how many from each actually voted for returnee and I imagine the count on that turnout figure would be much lower per constituency than the respective MP.
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Indeed, but if we're talking about mandates, although low, it puts a bit of perspective in the mix.
 
Burnsy2023 said:
Indeed, but if we're talking about mandates, although low, it puts a bit of perspective in the mix.
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Sorry I'm a bit confused (not having a go or anything :) :p) but the West Midlands area is I think 58 or 59 constituencies, no matter how you look at it 12.31% of the elligible electorate of which he received 117,388 votes (divide 117,388 by 59 which is less than 2000 per constituency) is a shaky mandate by any equation.
 
Dist said:
For those complaining about lack of information, did you not see the many TV ads they did, which gave you a link that lists the people running in your area and their experience, goals etc...
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No, because I only watch Sky Sports, Discovery and recorded TV that i skip the ad's on :p

Only advert I heard was on TalkSport, and a tiny one printed in my local paper.
Considering we had no leaflets at all with information ,and the ad's tell people to go online for more info - not very bright when over 80% of my area is either too young to vote, or pensioners who have no chance of going online.
 
TheMightyTen said:
Sorry I'm a bit confused (not having a go or anything :) :p) but the West Midlands area is I think 58 or 59 constituencies, no matter how you look at it 12.31% of the elligible electorate of which he received 117,388 votes (divide 117,388 by 59 which is less than 2000 per constituency) is a shaky mandate by any equation.
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But if you're talking about absolute figures, saying you have 117,388 people that actually voted for you is more than many MPs.
 
I get a postal vote, but all candidates belonged to political parties so I chose not to vote.

If there'd been an independent candidate, I would have voted for them.
 
I reviewed my local candidates online and none of them had anything interesting to say, just stuff like 'I will be tough on crime!' Yeah, well that's kinda what you're paid for.
The grammar was also pretty poor.

I thought it was a waste of time to be honest and so didn't vote, I was quite offended by the lack of effort from all parties to be quite frank.
 
Dist said:
For those complaining about lack of information, did you not see the many TV ads they did, which gave you a link that lists the people running in your area and their experience, goals etc...
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All of my TV is watched via iPlayer and the like.

Literally the only ways I was even aware of this happening were a poll card dropping through my door a couple of weeks ago and a random link halfway down the BBC News site last week.
 
If there was an independent candidate standing I may have voted, but because they were all (bizzarely) declaring political affliations I refuse to support such blatent political interference in our Police force.

Not one politcian has addressed this concern, they are all mumbling utter tripe about not enough news coverage or bad weather or North Korea being to blame or whatever.
 
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