Vocal Voices

Corby votes to stay in the Union .....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-no ... e-28279790

Pretty convincing rejection of independence, numerically. On the other hand, they're all in England. On the other, other hand, they did take the vote at the local Highland gathering! Still, I don't know if you can read anything into it or not. Meantime, pass the haggis round, and mine's a single malt while you're at it!

Now while we're on the subject of elections, we have to vote during August for a new Police Commissioner here, at the cost of £3.7m - or 158 bobbies back on the beat.

We must be mad. A full blooded election for a post nobody basically gives a whatsit about.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014 ... -bob-jones

I think the No vote will prevail

Those police elections are a complete waste of time and money, I agree

Kaz wrote:Those police elections are a complete waste of time and money, I agree

They wouldn't be a waste of time if we elected someone who would make the Police do
what they are paid to do, - namely, enforce the law.

It's looking like Salmond has shot himself in the foot with the 16-18 age group. Apparently they don't support him....

The big unknown though, in Scotland, is that in may areas every second Labour household is divided down the middle between Labour and SNP. Labour are still losing votes to them. I'm not sure any 1,000 person poll will show that clearly.

We'll see how it goes in September but I expect the Independence polls to rise for the Yes vote again in the next two months. Even if it doesn't win. After all, the polls said Brown was going to be hammered and what did we get? Some shoddy coalition....

As for electing police commissioners?

Point 1. Every time I say that electing a president instead of having a Monarch who more than pays the way, I get a lot of "so what it will be worth it". When we talk about the police, people say "what a waste of time". We have to have a head of state, I always assumed one who did not interfere in the politics and paid their own way was by far the best way to go...

Point2. Elected Police officials are politicians. Therefore they are statistics driven. There are two ways of driving those statistics. Easy and hard. Easy is just to change the way they report.... Hard simply isn't happening and no elections are going to make it more enticing to do it the hard way.