Four to fight next month's election for police and crime commissioner (From Watford Observer)

What? No James Gordon? I was looking forwards to them installing a Bat light on the roof of the YMCA.

That will be the Lib Dems' second choice candidate on the ballot paper after the first one they chose packed it in!

Why are these political applications only??
Surely a good local business Director can do it better?

Toshhorn wrote:
Why are these political applications only??
Surely a good local business Director can do it better?

Possibly because anyone without a political agenda and with the skills to manage a budget, understand statistics and handle the pressure from public and politicians can see that it's (a) a virtually impossible job to do (b) a virtually pointless job to do (c) that they are going to end up vilified no matter what they do and (d) could get paid better doing something else.

whats ukips stance on outsourcing police work to g4s? correct me if iam wrong but only the Labour candidate so far has ruled out the outsourcing.

crazyfrog wrote:
whats ukips stance on outsourcing police work to g4s? correct me if iam wrong but only the Labour candidate so far has ruled out the outsourcing.

I've no idea I am afraid, sorry I can't help you there. You can contact our candidate though and ask her personally.

What is the reason Labour has ruled it out without first weighing up the pros and cons?

I would hope that a UKIP PCC would look at all the facts first before making a decision, and I doubt that is possible without being elected first and getting all the information as part of the job.

It sounds more than a little irresponsible of the Labour candidate to rule out something so significant and substantial without first looking at the facts, but then that does not surprise me about Labour. They will do or say anything to get into power, just like the Liberals. I would not trust either of them as things stand.

Remember the Labour government wanted terrible detention laws (How many months detention without charge did they want?) Didn't they use terrorism laws on an old man at their conference? Didn't they sign the EU arrest warrant and tell us it was just for terrorism offences - it's now used to deal with traffic offences! They also wanted a police state with ID cards etc, yet were soft on criminals, letting them out even earlier than our soft sentencing allows.

I would not trust them to run a police force, and as the old police saying goes "they've got previous".

We need common sense, not Labour or Liberals.

If you're going to vote, for goodness sake make a decent choice based on the person and what they stand for. Voting along party lines would just be irresponsible for such an important job. An idiot could do a lot of damage.