The Duke’s of Hazzard Boss Hogg, and Devon and Cornwall police’s Boss Hogg
Boss Hogg – Tory Tony Hogg’s un-self-styled new moniker – has got his hands on the prize of the Police and Crime Commissioner job for Devon and Cornwall.
And if anyone had taken a glance at his well-funded campaign you’d have seen a selection of half-baked and reactionary policies. He does, after all, want a police force, not a police service.
But if that isn’t enough of an attack and long-devised and painstakingly developed ideas, then let’s take a look at whether Boss Hogg has any legitimate consensus.
According to the figures from the BBC, in Devon on Cornwall saw just 14.7% turn out for the election. Let’s be generous and call it 15%. Of these, just 28% voted for the Naval man.
That is a crippling lack of mandate and lack of legitimacy.
Add to that the fact that it was (and could still be) a criminal offence for the police to talk about the election, then you have what amounts to an attack on democracy itself.
Despite their best efforts, the ruling Conservatives may not have yet turned the UK into an anarchy, but they have definitely create Harzzard County, and with it undermined policing by consensus… the dipsticks
Hello – I take all you say on board and agree with it – the thing I would like to say however is summed up in one of my facebook posts from Saturday morning :
Hello – this is a message to all my friendshere who are based in Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Now BossHogg is in charge – and whether or not you agree with the post beingthere in the first place – I would urge you all to ‘like’the official facebook page.
This is a rare opportunity (in the UK ) tointeract directly with the office / individual in a directly electedpublic office. Apart from anything else it will be a lesson and experiment in how well people in these positions deal with social media
If people are interested – the facebook account is
https://www.facebook.com/devonandcornwallpcc
and the twiiter acct is
http://www.twitter.com/DC_PCC
Boss Hoog’ own twitter acct is
http://www.twitter.com/tonyhogg2012
he also has a personal fb account with a public profile -
https://www.facebook.com/tonyhogg2012
ps he may have received 28% of the vote in the first round – on second preference votes he only received 12%
Since the weekend Boss Hogg’s twitter account is now
http://www.twitter.com/tonyhoggpcc
Total lack of debate and the stifling of any contribution to discussion by police officers (under pain of criminal offence!) sums up why this is an affront to democracy! No mandate, no legitimacy and a series of half-baked reactionary ideas….progress eh?