Police commissioners - did you vote?

[MrGongGong]

you have quoted me out of context, and missed out my hilarious side splitter, Mr GG.

I got it no problem........
no need to pork

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

nope

[David Samuels]

I voted only because otherwise I should have no grounds on which to complain of the outcome. Perhaps, one day, someone will suggest a turnout level below which the election can be declared null and void on the grounds of "not quorate".

[3rd Viennese School]

I read all the leaflets that came through my door so I could vote accordingly.

Oh hang on. There were NO leaflets!!


So no. I didn’t vote.

3VS

[mangerton]

No - because Scotland won't have them. We will have a single force for the whole country, which I think is an equally silly idea.

Later post:

He (Cameron) did look a bit shifty, as if he'd been caught smoking a fag behind the Eton bike shed.

I think that's a politician's normal expression, isn't it?

[Dave2002]

I think we had one card and one leaflet. Finding information seemed to require us to search in order to find this site - http://www.choosemypcc.org.uk/candidates/area/surrey So far no results have been announced for many of the areas.

I agree with ff that if someone is going to be elected anyway we should at least try to exert some control.

[MrGongGong]

I agree with ff that if someone is going to be elected anyway we should at least try to exert some control.

I'm more of the view that (as with things like the National Plan for Music Education) we should stop acting like English people in a restaurant when presented with something we
1: didn't order
2: is badly cooked
3: isn't something we like anyway
and say "oh well , it could have been much worse"
there is another option which is to SEND IT BACK
which in this farce means (as we have no "none of the above" option) to be a "spoiled paper"

I voted only because otherwise I should have no grounds on which to complain of the outcome.

I'm not sure that this (which is what ALL political parties peddle) is true at all. Those who don't vote are demonstrating something (though I prefer the "spoilt paper" option myself as it has a moment of physical release)

like wot John Said

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it"

[cloughie]

I voted only because otherwise I should have no grounds on which to complain of the outcome. Perhaps, one day, someone will suggest a turnout level below which the election can be declared null and void on the grounds of "not quorate".

Surely whether a vote is cast or not we can still complain about the outcome ie that Police Commissioners are appointed at all. This government of our country which is supposed to be internationally in debt can continually spend money on fixing things that aren't broken suopposedly applying democratic process to achieve non-democratic results.

[ahinton]

Surely whether a vote is cast or not we can still complain about the outcome ie that Police Commissioners are appointed at all. This government of our country which is supposed to be internationally in debt can continually spend money on fixing things that aren't broken suopposedly applying democratic process to achieve non-democratic results.

The first sentence is entirely correct. The second is so only to the extent that what isn't being - and almost certainly will never properly be - fixed by this initiative is at least partially (though by no means wholly) broken.

[Paul Sherratt]

It's clearly going to be a landslide verdict.

[MrGongGong]

It's clearly going to be a landslide verdict.

According to this (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...s-8323275.html) there were some polling stations where NO ONE turned up to vote
which to me (anarchist lefty atonal troublemaker that I obviously am ) was what I would consider a clear message

[french frank]

According to this (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...s-8323275.html) there were some polling stations where NO ONE turned up to vote
which to me (anarchist lefty atonal troublemaker that I obviously am ) was what I would consider a clear message

"Professor John Curtice, a polling expert and professor of politics at Strathclyde University, said the turnout, which could be the worst in any national election ever, would raise questions over the legitimacy of the vote. Curtice said that voters had been left “struggling” to choose candidates after they all promised much the same thing."

Same with the mayoral election: at least we shall have lots and lots of lovely new jobs and a decent transport system at last, whoever the new mayor is ...

[Paul Sherratt]

Mr GG, atonal as well ? Very, very scary !
There will have to a be cost per vote calculation carried out to see how this compares with BBC Radio 3 listener figures.

http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/505b219f69beddbb57000001/voting-polling-station.jpg

[teamsaint]

Candidates all promising much the same thing...................hard to believe !!

[subcontrabass]

In Bristol we were also voting for our first mayor - last May a massive 14%(?) of the electorate voted in favour of having one and, as usual, the result was decided by the non-voters (the vote was held in the one year when we had no other elections so hardly anyone remembered.)

12.867% in favour, 11.251% against.