Re: Financial crisis

On Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:33:08 +0100, Kim Andrews <bykimbo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Stephen wrote:
On Sat, 4 Oct 2008 07:55:43 +0100, "Siderius Nuncius"
<matron.nuncius@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Police Chiefs must be accountable to some elected person. One advantage of
it being the Home Secretary is that she has a modicum of detachment from
local political squabbles. Boris's action seems to me to be a step toward
the police coming under direct local political control and I think that's
thoroughly undesirable, whoever exerts that control.

The suggestion that BoJo has decided that there is no need for a
permanent replacement until there is a Conservative Home Secretary
does nothing to ease things, either.

Even I thought that was a bit dodgy. :o)

To be fair to BoJo it was the Deputy Mayor for Policing, Kit
Malthouse, who said that (but BoJo is responsible for his Deputies),
and the Mayor himself is backtracking from it.

It looks as if the governance structure isn't designed to cope with a
combination of a controversial commissioner, an unpopular Home
Secretary (in the sense of being a senior member of an unpopular
Government) and a somewhat maverick Mayor of a different political
persuasion.

Malthouse may get his way, if there is no senior policeman willing to
drink from this particular poisoned chalice.
--
Stephen

Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went And cannot come again.
.

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