Bit of a hot topic isn’t it?
- Bill Wilson, Supreme Court Judge;
- Expenses scandals; and now, incredibly urgent but totally out of the blue
- Cops on Councils!
Maybe I’m over-reacting, but the idea of a police political party seems just ever-so-slightly fascist to me. Won’t this make the Police a lobby group, rather than a dispassionate enforcers of the democratic public will?
My understanding is that at the national level civil servants are discouraged from standing for political office – if so, the same should apply at local government level.
I’m not sure I’m in Bomber’s camp on this, but he does make some pretty good points.