Angus Young: With a month to go until police commissioner vote, the fun has only just begun
With just over a month to go until polling day, it is all kicking off in the race to become the region's first police and crime commissioner.
First, there's the question over whether John Prescott will swap his two Jags for two jobs if he wins the contest.
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IN THE RUNNING: Police commissioner candidates John Prescott and Matthew Grove debate issues, watched over by Secretary of State for Justice Chris Grayling. Picture: Peter Harbour
Some have suggested he should give up his seat in the House of Lords should be emerge victorious.
More to the point, will he give up his lucrative media work?
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A quick check on the official register of Lords' interests reveals he has been paid for appearing on no fewer than eight TV and radio shows since April last year.
They ranged from Piers Morgan's Life Stories to Desert Island Discs but the list doesn't include his recent stint on All Star Mr And Mrs.
Meanwhile, Conservative candidate Matthew Grove is facing calls to do the decent thing and withdraw from the contest.
Daily Mail columnist Quentin Letts believes he should step aside to leave Ukip MEP Godfrey Bloom with a Tory-free run against Prezza.
Godders, meanwhile, was hailed as "the voice of Middle England" by his party leader Nigel Farage at the recent Ukip annual conference.
Elsewhere, ex-cop Paul Davison has been busy trying to put some polite distance between himself and the East Yorkshire Independents Party who are supporting his campaign.
Election rules prevent Independent candidates such as Mr Davison from being backed by a political party.
Across in the Liberal Democrat camp, candidate Simone Butterworth has revealed her first priority if elected on November 15.
Part of the Lib Dem selection process involved her taking part in a mock "hostile media interview" conducted by a party grandee.
The first bruising question was what would she do on her first day in office.
Recalling her first TV appearance as city council leader after winning the 2002 elections in Hull, she replied: "Buy a corset."
Finally, step forward Colin Inglis as the newly-elected chairman of a panel meant to keep a beady eye on the new commissioner.
As anyone who has seen him in action will testify, no one can deliver a verbal slapping quite like our Colin.
The fun has only just begun.
Comments
by ErnestDeadman
Tuesday, October 02 2012, 12:09PM
“I will wonder to my dying day why Lard Prescott wants to be the PCC at 72, it can only be money and then again £770 a day from the House of Lords is he that short of cash at 72.”
by Clem_
Sunday, September 30 2012, 3:56PM
“I'm not wholly sold on the idea of paid elected officers. Councillors, fine; paid elected officers, not really. The acquisition and retention of power becomes the driving force and the use of council resources to gather and interpret statistics to aid re-election is seen as a legitimate tool. There is a danger that it becomes personality based rather than issues based. Hmmm, I wonder.”
by RabbitFord
Sunday, September 30 2012, 12:49PM
“I would like to know the candidates views on the crime of White Genocide that is being inflicted on us via massive non-white immigration.
Could the candidates also tell us what their policy would be on anti-White terror such as that recently brought to our attention in Rotherham? (i.e large scale rape of White schoolgirls)”
by ErnestDeadman
Saturday, September 29 2012, 9:34PM
“Just for interest sake I just googled Lord Prescott of Hull Expenses and found out he claimed £770 a day last year snout in trough or what.”
by bt13jz
Saturday, September 29 2012, 10:38AM
“Sick of this shambles, sick of the spin, sick of same old same old. Prescott, Inglis and the the trough with their snouts in would anyone miss them if they were deported to the moon?
Hull Dully Mail should be commended on its fair reporting of this story .... what there are other candidates?....
Why dont you do some real investigative journalism and explain to the public - what the role is, why we need it, the cost to the public and what impact it will have on the tax payer in hull”
by unitedtowing
Saturday, September 29 2012, 10:14AM
“does he need a new jag , the guy is a buffoon ,east hull mafia , alive n kicking”
by HeavenlyManna
Saturday, September 29 2012, 10:01AM
“Many more derogatory and revealing comments exposing Prescotts calibre and credibility in this piece in yesterday's Mail, including:
"He calls for a 'drugs summit' to tackle those who are drug addicts who turn to crime to fuel their habit. Thirteen years too late Prezza."
http://tinyurl.com/cssf98y
If only more would take their blinkers off and see through Prescott's undoubtedly timely and slick campaigns, BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE FOR ALL CONCERNED!!?”
by HeavenlyManna
Saturday, September 29 2012, 9:58AM
“Totally agree with these and the 100s of other derogatory comments in all the reports over recent weeks in the ST, GT & HDM covering Prezza's JP4PCC campaign.
Many people expressing understandably appropriate and reasonable doubts and concerns over the potential appointment of this publicly discredited incompetent/philanderer/buffoon as Humberside's 1st Police & Crime Commissioner!!?
Says it all when you can count on one hand the number of positive comments in support of Prescott's candidacy in Humberside's local AND the national rags (more on that later)!!
HOWEVER, given:
i)the number of candidates AND THE independants- which will undoubtedly split the vote, to work massively in Prescott's favour;
ii)his and his son's "2Prezzas" timely and slick PR media campaigns- that over the years have fended off all the Prescott smears (try Googling Prescott smears - its an eye opener!!).
iii)their JP4PCC promotion campaign which has been in overdrive for weeks now and which has already jumped on many a populist bandwagon- including the CPUK jubilee & olympic stewards; Police numbers; plebgate etc etc (And trust me there will be many more to come right up to the Nov 15 deadline for PCC elections!)
iv)the number of totally misguided, dimwit local lefties and team prezza Labourites and Labours big guns turning out to endorse and support this disreputable idiot and hoodwink the votes out of the naive, apathetic and gullible!!
I am afraid we all need to face up to the inevitable and embarrassing prospect that Humberside - care of many deluded souls being swayed by his & Lady P's incruciatingly embarrassing pseudo/sham celebrity cult status - may very well elect John Prescott as its PCC.
For the sake of the image, reputation and prospects of Humberside AND moreso this proud country; I sincerely hope and pray that I am proved wrong??!!"
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by Kustard2011
Saturday, September 29 2012, 9:27AM
“by ispy3Friday, September 28 2012, 10:46PM
"John Prescott is the man for the job.........''''
I would like to have a pint of what you have been drinking. Prescot would be a disaster!!!”
by ispy3
Friday, September 28 2012, 10:46PM
“John Prescott is the man for the job, there's plenty of dead wood in the police force that needs
cutting out and they know who they are. In the east of the city, things has deteriorated since short **** became an MP,policing needs sorting, then people can be reassured that their Rolex Gucci watches will be safe.”