Selection

[KateLMead]

The selection of the Commissioner ( I love these high falooting names, "Tsars.Academies.etc.) given to these worthless institutions, the latest to be thought up and given to a totally unsuitable inmature foul mouthed Paris Brown a 17 year old by the seemingly equally unsuitable Ann Barnes who up until this morning defended the foul mouthed teenager., Ann Barnes in my opinion is not fit to hold the £85,000 a year post, and it shows just how unsuitable a great majority of those in positions of authority are, it "Aint what you know, Its who you know in todays climate!!

Stop these ridiculous gimmicks, get back to basics. There are thousands of youngsters who would have been ideal for the job it is hoped that this foul mouthed young teeneager has learned her lesson as the old adage says .. "Engage the brain before you open the mouth"!!

[Kaz]

Ridiculous to put a 17 year old in this position in the first place!!!!!

[KateLMead]

Love the pic Kaz.

Of course the position should never have been even thought up in the first place. I was not impressed one little bit with the girl when she was first interviewed, and now all the excuses... that she was 14 and 15 when she wrote the trash on twitter, ( I dont believe a word of it) and the fact she was encouraged to drink at home did not show much parental responsibility..

What is happening that such muck can be put on twitter by a 14 year old? along with bullying to the extent that another youngster has taken his life. What a country we have become Kaz.

[TheOstrich]

I quite agree, this so-called position shouldn't have been thought up in the first place. It's little more than a publicity stunt. Although in fairness, I understand that the proper police commissioner is paying the girl out of her own £85K salary.

£15K for doing what, exactly? Master O works a full week, including on-call night shifts, for little more than this ....

[Workingman]

The position itself is a gimmick and totally unnecessary, and the person chosen for the post is not suitable.

However, I am not going to haul her over the coals for things she said/did when she was 14. The vast majority of us were saying and doing things at that age that were not PC or acceptable in later life.

The advantage we had is that what we did was not logged for eternity on some database to be accessed years later and used against us.

[KateLMead]

I find it hard to believe that she wrote these twittish twitters at the age of 14.... By saying so is an easy way to get out of the b**lls up that the commissioner created by not checking out her credentials. I am not one for not giving an individual a chance whatever their background, however out of 200 odd applicants I am sure there were candidates who were more suitable.. The whole charade is ridiculous and the woman who gave her the job wants firing.As for her paying out of her own salary, she will have no fear make up that amount in expenses

[Kaz]

Absolutely what Frank and Ossie said xx

Thanks Kate, for the nice comment about my new avatar xx

[Suff]

I'm with WM on this. That what was said at 14/15 should not be cast up in this way. But of course, she was a political target and that's what our press does nowadays.

I'm also with the "What idiot put a 17 year old in this position?". My ethos is that a 17 year old is NOT an adult. I was in the Army at 18 and I can tell you it took a while before I was an Adult, married with a child or not. We have to stop this stupidity of putting children into adult roles and then expecting them to act and react like adults.

The other side of this coin is that Facebook and Twitter are not the street corner or the pub. What you say on the street corner or in the pub is not recorded, is often not remembered and is highly unlikely to be cast up by the national press. Facebook and Twitter are public, international and eternal. It's time we started teaching our children the real meaning of these services. Having a dust up with one of your friends on twitter is not just between you and your friends. It is a public bar fight in front of the WHOLE WORLD. Recorded for posterity forever!!!!

If we do not teach our children this, then it is us who are to blame. How many times did we see the private emails of people, who thought they were talking to friends (a.k.a boasting down the pub), splashed all over the internet. Even now we see it with senior public officials (generals anyone), caught out time and again by their electronic indiscretions (and other more human)..... It took a solid decade for the Adults to understand this and, it appears, many still haven't cottoned on to it. How much longer will it take for our children to censor themselves and their childish (growing up), tantrums???

On the face of it, this is a pr disaster by putting a 17 year old into an experienced adults job. Under the surface is a much, much, bigger problem which is neither acknowledged, nor dealt with.

[Workingman]

The girl's tweets are now being investigated as criminal offences. They will no doubt be classed as 'hate crimes' and she will be shipped off to some re-education facility until she acknowledges the errors of her ways.

Meanwhile, selected minorities can say what the hell they like about the majority with impunity.

What a desperately sad country the UK has become.

[Suff]

Desperately sad? NO. Desperately twisted? Absolutely.

[edit]

We live in a country where 80% of the knife crime now goes undeterred because the police are not allowed to stop and search the most likely groups who carry knives. Sweden is like this but in a different way. 90% of all burglaries in Sweden go unresolved, let alone unpunished. So in Sweden a burglar knows that the law is an occupational hazard.

OK so your house is broken into and stuff is stolen. That is one thing.

You are stabbed to death and murdered on the street or in a pub. That is another.

We have our values ALL wrong and the police are not fighting for the rights to make our streets safe. They have the stats yet they are still allowing politicians to determine the way they police.

This country is sick. I see no doctor around to heal it.