Public service blogging: Police and Crime Commissioner advert
Police insiders are predicting turnout for Merseyside's first Police and Crime Commissioner election next month could be as low as 11%.
Although that should be shocking it is not. The weather is likely to be inclement, and hardly anyone out there in the general electorate has even a passing interest in the election.
Victory for Labour's Jane Kennedy is more of a foregone conclusion that Joe Anderson's win in Liverpool's inaugural mayoral election in May.
The Home Office is splashing out £150,000 every time this advert gets shown on ITV this weekend, I thought I'd do my bit to help.
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Surely the local press/media has a responsibility to publicise the fact that these elections are going on. I've seen next to nothing in the Liverpool Echo or the Liverpool Post. On BBC Radio Merseyside all's I've heard is a segment where shoppers were asked about the elections and guess what - they didn't know anything about it. That's because Radio Merseyside hasn't covered the elections! So instead of running down the city and the region with the next headline in praise of gangsters, maybe the Echo should do its public service duty and cover the Police Commissioner elections.
Yours
A Floating Voter - wearing concrete boots,
River Mersey