http://www.choosemypcc.org.uk/candidates/area/cambridgeshire?postcode=CB41RT
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19511791
I don't know if electing a police and crime commissioner is a good idea or not, but given it's being voted on, if you know at least as much as an average voter, it's probably better to vote (including spoiling your ballot paper if you want to register your disapproval, or choosing randomly amongst acceptable candidates) as best you can.
Unfortunately, the brief statements supplied are not very informative. Does anyone know anything positive/negative about them?
After a brief scan, my triaging method was to discard any candidate whose statement included the following:
which eliminated most of them. And then look to see if anyone seemed to be proposing anything specific. The candidates are:
So I guess, based on the extremely superficial profile information, Ali, labour, and Mohammed sound most plausible, but does anyone know anything about the candidates personally? Even just "my second cousin knows er slightly and e seemed competent/hard-working/decent"?
If not, I'll probably guess based on the manifestos (probably Ali, then Labour), but even though that's reasonable for eliminating people, it not really reliable for telling who'd actually be best.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19511791
I don't know if electing a police and crime commissioner is a good idea or not, but given it's being voted on, if you know at least as much as an average voter, it's probably better to vote (including spoiling your ballot paper if you want to register your disapproval, or choosing randomly amongst acceptable candidates) as best you can.
Unfortunately, the brief statements supplied are not very informative. Does anyone know anything positive/negative about them?
After a brief scan, my triaging method was to discard any candidate whose statement included the following:
- "United Kingdom"
- "England"
- "Tough"
- "Victims"
- "More police on the beat"
- Vague platitudes
which eliminated most of them. And then look to see if anyone seemed to be proposing anything specific. The candidates are:
- UKIP and English Democrat. I may be doing them a disservice, but it seems most English/British nationalist parties are simplistic and xenophobic, especially when it comes to policing. Let me know if I've judged too harshly and should actually know something more about one them.
- Conservative party candidate. Former MP. Election statement kind of platitude-y. Conservative party sympathetic friends say policing isn't the area they'd most prefer conservative party influence.
- Labour Party candidate. Anti-current government. Relevant experience. Mentions "victims" (probably bad) and "prevention" (probably good) and some platitudes.
- Lib-dem Party candidate. Reasonably promising manifesto, but I've heard bad things about him personally.
- Ansar Ali. Lots of relevant experience with specifics. Seems like he has specific priorities even though I find it hard to tell from the manifesto exactly what.
- Farooq Mohammed. Sounds sincere, but the manifesto is a bit platitude-y. It does mention transparency.
So I guess, based on the extremely superficial profile information, Ali, labour, and Mohammed sound most plausible, but does anyone know anything about the candidates personally? Even just "my second cousin knows er slightly and e seemed competent/hard-working/decent"?
If not, I'll probably guess based on the manifestos (probably Ali, then Labour), but even though that's reasonable for eliminating people, it not really reliable for telling who'd actually be best.