Elections tomorrow

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Our patch and we have the right to elect our candidate for the post of Police Cime Commissioner.

It's wrong, but I really disagree ith the imposed policy of the post of PCC, therefore I have decided to abstain. Just me then?

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marshalla said:

Abstain = I don't care enough about it to go and vote
Spoilt paper = I made the effort to protest even though they'll probably ignore it

Yes it will be ignored unfortunately, a low turn out in an otherwise active political (It's all relative) area may carry more dis satisfaction weight. But I doubt it :sigh:

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Add this pile of horse ste to the local devolution strategy and a distinct quesy feeling of dictat comes rushing in from the horizon.

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This is counter to my beliefs and wishes, I truly hope that the turnout is so low that politicians will sit up and take note. Who knows they may even act by abolishing the PCC jobs. I won't hold my breath though.

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VolvoT5 said:

Esseesse said:

It's a move towards regionalisation.

I figured..... I'm just not convinced it is a good idea.

It's a ste idea especially when we consider the public will not be involved in the decision making or electing process. It's an afront to democracy, elsewhere posters have stated Labour Party being control freaks, is George Osborne a Labour man?

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turbobloke said:

Possibly mentioned already - in Scotland, Labour has been knocked down into 3rd place behind the Tories.

Good!

Labour will be in the same political wilderness as the Tories were for some years. Forgetting Scotland for the moment, Labour are dead ducks, as are my own Lib Dems, UKIP are a blown flush and the remaining minor parties are, by and large, non runners. Leaves us with an infighting not very popular Tory Government.
No wonder the Government are trying to push ahead with their political ideology. And then we have the E.U. Not good is it.

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PCC election turnout Suffolk 24.47% amounting to 133,506 votes. The winning candidate garnered 68,093 votes.