Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
- Posts: 2,438
Is fast approaching, it does not seem to have caught the imagination of the electorate and it is looking like it will be a extremely low turnout. I have had tweets from Anne Barnes but nothing else. Seems to be total apathy on the whole issue of Commissioners.
Audere est facere.
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
- Posts: 1,266
I'm working as a Poll Clerk at Northbourne that day - I shall be taking a lot of reading material with me!
True friends stab you in the front.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,897
Apart from forums there has been no real information around so how are the public supposed to make an informed decision on who to pick.
This is not a position that should never be decided by party loyalties but who will be best at the job, yet another potentially good idea that has not been thought through properly,
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
- Posts: 6,950
While we are told it would be best to privatise the Civil Service, BUT not to Politicise it. There seems to be no such qualms regarding 'Thatchers's Thuggees', our Police 'service'.
This is little more than a side-line for "one of us" that is unelectable Parliament-wise, but not clubbable enough for the Upper Chamber.
Is there a turnout figure cut-off point? Shall the successful candidate win on fewer votes that your average Council meeting?
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
- Posts: 8,664
Whoever wins will be unable to claim a democratic mandate with a straight face. It's the same here in Surrey; apathy rules amid a realisation that it will change nothing.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
andyc,can i sugest war and peace,closly followed by a harry potter one.
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
- Posts: 1,266
'Lost Voices of The Royal Air Force' is the current book of choice, Brian - and I can thoroughly recommend it, it's just brilliant. Next one lined up is 'Lost Voices of The Great War'; if it's anything like as good as the current one, I shall not be bored.
True friends stab you in the front.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
andy
re; 2
i would suggest a high energy drink to keep you awake too, none of us know enough about the job and the applicants to make a considered decision.
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
- Posts: 1,266
Howard
Diabetic, so
I shall just have to rely on the aforementioned books and a near 100% turnout for the mental stimulus needed to prevent the onset of sleep.
True friends stab you in the front.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
andy,i have some ww1 & 2 books you could borrow,let us know if you want to borrow some.fully informative they are.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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plenty of propaganda doing the rounds costing a fair few bob, could have been spent on training up new coppers.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
it would be nice to know who the runners and riders are.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
Craig Mackinlay is the Conservative Candidate. Looks a good guy.
Roger
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
what about the others,if there are any roger.or is it a one horse race.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I don't know who the Labour or Lib-Dem, or even the Indpendant candidates are, Brian.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
does anyone actually care who gets it because i don't? the guff coming out is that criminals live in fear of who gets the job.
in real life they are only worried when old bill is close by and coming after them.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
roger,its a shame that we are being kept in the dark on who's running for it.i would like to know who's running so i can have an informed choice.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
But they will determine how crime is fought and where and where the budgets are concentrated. We need local input to this.
Roger
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,897
This is a position that should be judged on a candidates ability to do the job not what party they belong to. Without some decent unbiased information I will not bother to vote.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
i will not be bothering either jan just another load of flannel that will see someone getting paid for a sinecure. the only candidate i know to be standing is anne barnes as she has been most voluble about it being a non political peson appointed.
our yellow friends have been backing her all the way.
