Johnnyboxer
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- Location
- Yorkshire
We have a new Mayor of Yorskhire to vote for today
..............and you??
Don't forget your photo ID
..............and you??
Don't forget your photo ID
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Are you voting today?
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Scholsey
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Police and crime commissioner here, can’t see there being much of a turn out for that.
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
Crime commissioner here, I won't bother. I did email him in the past, complete waste time, so not bothering. Why have a crime commissioner, when they basically get £63 000 a year for doing not a great deal, what we need is Sherif's who set the agenda for the local Police, if the Police concentrate on on people being offended by social media and don't so stop and search for knife crime or follow up on burglaries then they should get voted out, in my opinion.
- Location
- High Weald AONB
Swarfmonkey
Member
- Location
- Hampshire
If PCC's had the ability to fire chief constables for poor performance they might have a reasonable raison d'être, but as they don't they're just another bunch of useless meatsacks that the taxpayer is forced to pay for.
Same here -so did postal vote. Independent got my vote as his blurb wants police to police and not follow political agendas ...... how refreshing ......
Johnnyboxer
Member
- Location
- Yorkshire
Don’t complain about politics then
- Location
- High Weald AONB
I always turn out to vote, mindful that it is less than 100 years since we achieved universal suffrage. That's not to say that I don't register the odd protest vote, either for an independent candidate or occasionally for 'none of the above'. I don't care if it's classed as a spoilt paper, it still has to be counted. 
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Having met both the main party candidates for PCC I will definitely go and vote.
So many people in the world either don't get a vote, or it is rigged, or only one candidate, I am privileged to have the option
Earlier generations fought for the right to vote and I am going to use it.
So many people in the world either don't get a vote, or it is rigged, or only one candidate, I am privileged to have the option
Earlier generations fought for the right to vote and I am going to use it.
- Location
- South Wales UK
If you don't vote you can't complain??
The process is going to be there and carry on whatever.
The process is going to be there and carry on whatever.
Y Fan Wen
Member
- Location
- N W Snowdonia
Always postal vote here. I sometimes call in my station at the end of the day to see what the local turnout has been like.
- Location
- South Wales UK
We pay well over £500 plus out of our Council tax bill towards Police.
Never see a Copper even if need too??
300 odd houses around here paying give or take that much too??
You would get a 24/7 security service for that money ???
Never see a Copper even if need too??
300 odd houses around here paying give or take that much too??
You would get a 24/7 security service for that money ???
Danllan
Member
- Location
- Sir Gar / Carms
Agreed, but I went anyway and spoiled my paper as part of my civic duty.
- Location
- Lincolnshire.
I voted Lib Dem because their candidate expressed the view that the office of Police and crime commissioner should be abolished. Money better spent on actual policing, I completely agree with her!
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Police commissioner. Seems an awful lot of money spent for very little. Maybe a low turnout will send a bigger message than actually voting.
My mate works in Starbucks. People now come in and help themselves to bags of stuff without paying. Called the police and they only asked if the robber had been assaulted. No he hadnt been assaulted so they wouldn’t attend. This is the reality nowadays. What does the Police Commissioner do about it? Nothing. What’s the point? What’s the point of voting when they are all the same useless ineffectual political placemen only ever heard about at election time?
My mate works in Starbucks. People now come in and help themselves to bags of stuff without paying. Called the police and they only asked if the robber had been assaulted. No he hadnt been assaulted so they wouldn’t attend. This is the reality nowadays. What does the Police Commissioner do about it? Nothing. What’s the point? What’s the point of voting when they are all the same useless ineffectual political placemen only ever heard about at election time?
- Location
- Lincolnshire
I don’t actually blame the police themselves though. It’s the soft woke judiciary who are the root of the problem. But woe betide anybody who takes on the wigs and tights brigade.