Police and Crime Commissioner Elections

[ioneabee]

110 by 7:00pm (12hrs) I swear the clock is not moving now

[rothers2901]

£75 million to put a handful of people in place of something that was already in there. Again, another total waste of money which could be best spent elsewhere.

[rtbiscuit]

i went and voted by drawing a penis on my ballet slip. i think the lady thought i was in a long thought process, but i was actually trying to get the hairs righ ton the sack.

[zDan]

Is there a threshold where elections are declared invalid due to low turnout? I mean, imagine if the 100 people that bothered to turn to vote today were all ex-cons? Not that they were, but low turnouts means very little credibility for whoever gets elected...

[ioneabee]

i went and voted by drawing a penis on my ballet slip. i think the lady thought i was in a long thought process, but i was actually trying to get the hairs righ ton the sack.

 

I could hear one lady in a booth wrting an essay

[ioneabee]

117 by 9:00pm - thats probably it give or take a possible few straglers (but i doubt it now)

 

973 on list - so thats 12% (excluding postals)

[AK350Z]

i went and voted by drawing a penis on my ballet slip. i think the lady thought i was in a long thought process, but i was actually trying to get the hairs righ ton the sack.

 

It's the only reasonable response.

 

I couldn't even be arsed going down to spoil my ballot.

[glrnet]

i went and voted by drawing a penis on my ballet slip. i think the lady thought i was in a long thought process, but i was actually trying to get the hairs righ ton the sack.

 

It's the only reasonable response.

 

I couldn't even be arsed going down to spoil my ballot.

+1

[Ricey]

I might add that I have literally no clue what this vote is for or about such is my lack of interest

[AK350Z]

I might add that I have literally no clue what this vote is for or about such is my lack of interest

 

It's basically a vote on which candidate you would prefer to make your local police force worse. There's no selection box on the ballot for "WTF is this load of donkey balls".

[ioneabee]

The harm that this particular election has done to the voting democratic process is IMHO immeasurable - the apathy its created will be long and far reaching

(and I am in no way criticizing those who chose not to vote)

[Bockaaarck]

I voted because if I didn't then I don't believe I could justify moaning about the outcome. Where as now I can spend many happy hours spitting blood and gnashing my teeth at the result.

 

What I'm most frustrated about is that, as far as I can recall, we didn't actually get an opportunity to say "Actually, we don't want P&CC's at all, not one, we don't want any..." that's what annoys me.

 

Yet another layer of the very thin veneer of demorcacy that we are supposed to live under is removed.

[Ebized]

i went and voted by drawing a penis on my ballet slip. i think the lady thought i was in a long thought process, but i was actually trying to get the hairs righ ton the sack.

 

It's the only reasonable response.

 

I couldn't even be arsed going down to spoil my ballot.

+1

 

It will be interesting to hear what % of the voting slips were voided by those that took the trouble to "vote" .

[Ekona]

I still have no idea where my polling station was. Stupid idea, utter waste of time and money even if the theory behind it is sound.

[Chris`I]

I dont really get what it was all about either, other than there were a few ads on C4 which made no attempt to explain what it was all about.

 

Some of us had real work to do keeping this Nation moving

[rtbiscuit]

i had no idea of any of my candidates, or what they offered, the whole process locally was about as well advertised as a bad fart.

[Ekona]

Conservative bloke won ours on second preference, apparently.

 

I read his gumpf, he didn't say anything he was going to do but just gave a list of principles. Easier to do that than risk looking a liar when the public realise you've got no cash to spend At least the independant woman nominee didn't win, she wanted to press ahead with "improvements to road safety", i.e. speed cameras

[rtbiscuit]

i just looked mine up, 4 in total, none have any experience in policing although one claims to have done some work with them as a politician. ones a farmer/conservative councillor, ones ex council exec/labour councillor, ones a doctor who does local radio, and the other was a water survey specialist and UKIP rep.

 

so i'm glad i draw a c0ck on my ballet paper as that seems to be all its worth.

[wizurd]

we actually had one area near me that had no voters at all! what a total mockery.

 

surely they should have asked if we wanted this first. Unless it was sneaked in at the last general election as part of their polices.

[JetSet]

Unless it was sneaked in at the last general election as part of their polices.

 

 

Yes, it was in their manifesto but I doubt that it would have swung too many votes in their direction at the last general election. If they were determined to push through these elections they should have at least waited until April or May next year. TBH, I'm not really sure what these commissioners will be able to achieve really, the government set the police budgets and the chief constables are well aware of what the priorities are. We now have elected commissioners, what next, elected sheriffs, judges......

 

 

 

Pete

[rtbiscuit]

apparent total cost to organise this is £100 million, are these people now salaried as well? what an absolute waste of money. how many police could they have bought with 100 million.

[spursmaddave]

I didn't even realise there was a vote

 

I have never voted in any election ever and until we are forced to vote I won't be...

[choptop]

These positions should not have anything to do with any political party, hence why so many independent candidates won countywide. The public has spoken.

[rtbiscuit]

the only independent in east anglia to win was norfolk, was actually a tory rep, who wasn;t offered the position, so quit and entered as an indie.

 

the rest of east anglia is represented by tory commissionars

[JetSet]

how many police could they have bought with 100 million.

 

3,000 Apparently.

 

Pete