ANOTHER DAFT IDEA FROM AN EVER INCREASINGLY DAFT GOVERNMENT.

Tony Lloyd, who was a Labour MP until last week, has been elected as the Police and Crime Commissioner for Greater Manchester.

He was a Member of Parliament from 1983. Before that, he was a councillor on Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council from 1979-84 and was deputy leader of the Labour group.

This man is a career politician. If you cut off his leg, it would say ‘Labour’ all the way through it!


Now, there is nothing wrong with that. But don’t tell me that a man who has lived and breathed political dogma throughout 33 years of political infighting, is now not going to be ’political’
 

It is just not feasible! Policing needs to be independent of party politics.


Tameside police accept massive cuts in funding!

These PCC’s should not be elected, if elected at all, on political grounds. The whole idea behind this badly thought out scheme was to bring impartiality and the voice of the people to bear on policing priorities. But on a 13.5% voter turnout, no one in their right mind can this this result is truly democratic.


However, the one saving grace is that Lord Prescott has failed in his bid to become the Police and Crime Commissioner for Humberside!


And if further proof is needed that the whole scheme is political, Lord Prescott speaking after his defeat said: "I said at the beginning, this is a Tory marginal seat. It's not a safe Labour seat. It's not even a Labour seat."

I rest my case!