anyone on here vote in police elections ? ha ha

[spoonlamp]

Billy Connolly once said "The desire to become a politician should automatically ban you from ever becoming one - don't vote it just encourages them!" While I agree with the sentiment I think you're missing out on an opportunity for greater local control (or at least voicing your opinion) in not voting in something like this. It's not like not voting will be taken into consideration - the system has been put in place and will continue to be used. Yes, it was something I thought "who gives a f**x about this?" and "they'll all be as bad as each other", but in the end I actually went to the websites of each candidate, read their stuff and made a decision on that. Process? Dismiss them one at a time and see what's left. Easy enough in this case, one of them kept putting stuff in caps lock, another couldn't be bothered to make sentences, another was too busy convincing us that even though he represents X political party that won't affect his decisions. In the end I voted for the one (and I don't even remember which) who seemed the least manipulative in their text, seemed to have at least some managerial/budgeting experience and was against the continued attempts of privatisation of the police force by the government.


Too serious?