Matthew Grove: 'I do not want to ask people to pay more for policing'

“If we all volunteered to pay an extra quid just for this year, would they set up a specialist investgation squad to probe the dark corridors of City Hall and the greed ridden rooms of the East Riding's county hall?”

“Mr Grove I am a resident and you have not asked me! I have been paying a police precept as part of my Council Tax Bill for a number of years.The police are virtually non existent and if I am paying for a service I expect to receive it. Mr Grove get rid of your Deputy and save us all some money. I believe that you did the dirty on us by getting a deputy and not saying anything whilst you were canvassing. So please do not expect me to believe a word that you say. I will not be paying extra.”

“Asked to pay more so they can send traffic cars out to sit in petrol garages with a speed gun fastened to the rear windscreen like the one in Bilton on New Year's Day. I think NOT Mr. Grove. This is a typical political ploy to extract more money from the public. We are already down £9k gross in our household income due to change of jobs forced by redundancy and job evanluations so we say no more. We want to pay less not more and as for you Mr Grove, were you not earning enough before as a councillor as well as income from your own business.”

“Grove Stop talking like you have a real role to play. You will eventually dance to the tune of Eric ***** les and hit us all with increased bills for a service decimated by you and your political ilke.”

“Leadership Mr Grove? Decide, then tell the public what you want to deliver, cost it and plan the finances accordingly. Make efficencies where possible & then identify what you need to fill the gap & the options for filling it and the consequences of not filling it. Then let the public have a say. The draft plan, as the Tax Payers Alliance point out, says nothing about what he hopes to achieve. In other words it isn't a plan at all but a mess of language that would leave most people totally clueless. I read somewhere else that a member of the Office for the Commissioner said the 'plan' was written with partners in mind not the public. Not exactly the idea of the PCC to my understanding. This ' I don't want to do something but the public may want me to' without saying how he will measure and gauge public opinion is a smokescreen. if the plan is written for partners, not the public, it will be they who comment. As most partners are after a contribution from the police guess what they will say? This is transparent nonsense by someone who self-evidently just really hasn't got a clue what he's doing. Embarrassing.”

“It is surprising that HDM gives so much space to the Tax Payers Alliance. This is a political campaigning pressure group that essentially is anti public services expressed through the issue of funding these services. Their funding sources are a little opaque to say the least. What is missing from Mr Groves statement are the implications of freezing council tax and taking the Pickles 'penny'. Reductions in central government support grant have and will produce cuts to services and freezing CT will require further cuts when the arrangement unwinds. This is why some Tory councils are now going for an increase in defiance of Pickles cunning little plan. So Mr Grove level with the people and spell out the consequences of no tax increase on police services.”

“Well said BLAKEY.
This whole issue is a farce. Now the selection of a Chief Constable is to be conducted by Gove the PCC who is neither qualified or experienced to conduct such a selection. What a joke this is.”

“Nobody voted for your deputy and its a job which is not needed. Get rid ans save the taxpayer £45k.”