Sussex PCC 15 Nov - how will you vote?

[The Large One]

So this week's burning issue is almost upon us. Oooh!

Who floats your vote most as the new Police & Crime Commissioner. It's time to put those numbers out there.

 

[Titanic]

I won't be voting.... like at least 80% of the electorate.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Won't be voting - every single candidate is poor and the whole principle is wrong anyway.

 

[Sussax]

Won't be voting.

 

[BensGrandad]

Like an estimated 80 - 85% of the nation will not bother to vote , as I cannot see the point or ultimate benefit personally.

 

[The Large One]

Like an estimated 80 - 85% of the nation will not bother to vote , as I cannot see the point or ultimate benefit personally.

And that's being mirrored on NSC. It's indicative of how much interest there is in this PCC election - even the NSC turnout for a poll about a poll is low.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

I wont be bothering. It seems to be a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

 

[BensGrandad]

I wonder what would happen if like in some countries , Australia I think is one , voting was compulsory.

 

[Da Man Clay]

I wont be bothering. It seems to be a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

Is the correct answer. Nothing wrong with the current police authority. It's an odd concept.

 

[Badger]

I won't be voting either.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

I wonder what would happen if like in some countries , Australia I think is one , voting was compulsory.

It somewhat defeats the point of democracy to make voting compulsory. After abstaining in common place in parliament.

 

[GOM]

It might be pointless, needless etc but it is happening.

If you have no interest in who gets the job, fine, just don't complain when they do things you don't like. You are not intrerested in the position so you are not interested in what happens.

Conversely you could have your say.

 

[GreersElbow]

I'm going to stand in a few years time.

£100,000 and the job description is not big. Sounds piss easy.

 

[BensGrandad]

Have any of the candidates any experience of Policing and what it entails. On the face of it, I would perhaps be more inclined to vote, but I am not certain, if the candidates were either senior ex police or service officers with extensive organisational experience

 

[Brovion]

It might be pointless, needless etc but it is happening.

If you have no interest in who gets the job, fine, just don't complain when they do things you don't like. You are not intrerested in the position so you are not interested in what happens.

Conversely you could have your say.

How on earth do you work that out?

 

[Westdene Seagull]

It might be pointless, needless etc but it is happening.

If you have no interest in who gets the job, fine, just don't complain when they do things you don't like. You are not intrerested in the position so you are not interested in what happens.

Conversely you could have your say.

I'm abstaining because I don't believe any of the candidates are any good and because the current system is fine. Using your logic I should vote regardless just to ensure my right to complain ?

 

[The Large One]

It might be pointless, needless etc but it is happening.

If you have no interest in who gets the job, fine, just don't complain when they do things you don't like. You are not intrerested in the position so you are not interested in what happens.

Conversely you could have your say.

This is the point, no-one has been able to have their say.

No-one asked the electorate whether this was wanted, just arrogant assumption that 'more choice' is automatically a good thing. And if the mandate for this election was '... you voted for us, so you clearly agree with our policies...' then they can stick that up their engorged arses.

This isn't apathy, it's active objection. However, the government has said that the size of the turnout will not affect the mandate, so it's only party activists, the truly gullible and close friends who will vote. i.e. people with a vested interest in further politicising the police.

Who will hold the PCC to account? A Police and Crime panel of appointed members - so that's a bit like as it is now. Failing that, you can always put up with them for four years, and get the opportunity to vote them out. Four years.

 

[Common as Mook]

arrogant assumption


it's only party activists, the truly gullible and close friends who will vote.

Quite.....

 

[glasfryn]

from what I have seen they all have been involved in police commissions of some sort or another then was the time to do something not now and I don't like the whole thing being turned into a political circus.
plus will they be able to tell if the police are lying and if they can will they be able to stop this happening better people have tried and failed what makes them any different

so no I will not be voting.

 

[BensGrandad]

Has the police union or federation or whatever they call themselves ever expressed a view about the posts and their need.