An Inquiry Into Yesterday's Elections
Nov. 16th, 2012 07:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloThe average turn-out in yesterday's elections was 14%. Now they're holding an inquiry (which will waste yet more money) to find out what went wrong. Actually they can put that on hold because I can tell them. Right now. Gratis.
These are the reasons the elections were such an embarrassment:
1. Nobody wanted police commissioners in the first place.
2. The government failed- in fact didn't even try- to make its case.
3. There was no campaigning.
4. The candidates were the greyest and dustiest of party hacks- with the single exception of Lord Prescott and he lost because everybody despises New Labour and thank goodness for that.
There, that's my report. On second thoughts I'd like paying for it. I'll take a tenner...
These are the reasons the elections were such an embarrassment:
1. Nobody wanted police commissioners in the first place.
2. The government failed- in fact didn't even try- to make its case.
3. There was no campaigning.
4. The candidates were the greyest and dustiest of party hacks- with the single exception of Lord Prescott and he lost because everybody despises New Labour and thank goodness for that.
There, that's my report. On second thoughts I'd like paying for it. I'll take a tenner...
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Date: 2012-11-19 12:05 pm (UTC)I didn't actually vote, which I feel bad about because I intended to go and spoil my ballot paper by telling them that we don't want no stupid police commissioners. What is more, no one, repeat NO ONE informed me that they were standing.
Apparently there was a web address in small print on the ballot card that led to some info about who our candidates were. I only found out that was the case on the day of the election via a chance comment on Flickr! I ask you, what sort of democracy is that? :(