If an elected Police Commissioner is the solution, then what's the problem he or she will be addressing, other than popularity?
Popularity is not usually, in my mind, a solution to anything, except politics - and even then it has little to commend it.
Perhaps Police Commissioners should be elected via a TV game show that runs on Saturday evenings where auditions are held and the masses vote for their candidate's ability to dance, eat bugs and sing.
Ill-advised, is the word that spring to mind, especially when it has been demonstrated that we need a single, national police force, not 43, or however many we currently have.
In any case, what is a Police Commissioner going to be able to achieve that a Police Authority can't? Most applicants will be from former Police Authorities anyway.
£10bn is to be cut from the welfare budget; £10bn is to be handed to the IMF to prop up failing currencies. I know where I'd rather see the money used, and it ain't to prop up Greece and Portugal against all odds.
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I have to agree with you about elected Police Commissioners and the like - a waste of time and money.
I have to disagree with you about the IMF Welfare thing - one is an interest bearing loan, the other would be expenditure.
How's that for even-handedness.
Alan: I would agree with you if it weren't for the fact no-one can afford to pay off the interest, let alone the capital. It has gone into a doomed investment.
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