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Errr .... no there isn't - don't vote or spoil your ballot paper !
Hotchilidog
Well-known member
- Jan 24, 2009
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I am totally at a loss as to what to do with my vote in this election. I really fail to see what the point of the commissioners really is, I am not aware that the public were clamouring for an elected overseer of the police. It has yet to be adequately explained to me what powers the PCC's have and whether that would help the police in anyway. I've looked at the blurbs on the My PCC website and can nothing but vague promises to cut bureaucracy, use the word community a lot and to keep Sussex Safe.
I value my vote, and I always do vote at local, national and european levels, but i am contemplating spoiling the ballot for this one as I am yet to be convinced about the need for a PCC in the first place.
I value my vote, and I always do vote at local, national and european levels, but i am contemplating spoiling the ballot for this one as I am yet to be convinced about the need for a PCC in the first place.
mikeyjh
Well-known member
Agreed 100%, I am utterly unconvinced that this is good idea - Quite how having an individual in charge, rather than an authority made up of elected individuals and other 'experts' such as magistrates, makes the police more accountable, I have no idea.....
I just don't know whether I don't vote or just spoil my paper....
Camicus
New member
The police should be apolotical vote independant or spoil your paper with that 
TheBlueAndWhiteStrips
Active member
There should be another box on your ballot paper that says none of the above, if you don't believe any of the candidates are fit to be the local PCC there's nothing you can do.
There already is, you simple don't vote.
Not only are we having a pointless election, but Dorothy Stringer School is having to shut for the day to accomodate it. That is quite ridiculous. An entire school closing for what will be a 10% turn out in a pointless exercise of bureaucracy that introduces politics into something that should be apolitical. Madness.
Knightsworld
Well-known member
Ditto
Tricky Dicky
New member
It is apparently costing us £100m. Good job we've got nothing else to spend it on. Just don't vote for the creationist, who I think is the only independent. Caught a few secs of the South Today overview last night of the Kent candidates - you wouldn't hire any of them to run a tombola stall at a village fate. I gather their overview of the 5 Sussex candidates in next week.
The Large One
Who's Next?
This, added to which I am against the (further) politicisation of the police force.
Bloody hell - I need a beer - two things we agree on in a day !
The Large One
Who's Next?
Put your brain back in, and you'll eventually get used to it.
Too late - I've cracked open that beer already in preparation for this evening !
GreersElbow
New member
I don't think that means much.....
JJ McClure
Go Jags
...it certainly doesn't mean anything good. Having a PCC that is or has been plod already negates the role quite frankly when part of the idea is to get away from the institutionalised power at the moment.
GreersElbow
New member
My thoughts too, however - the police are not politicised. So it wouldn't make matters much worse if a copper was to be PCC..