LANCASHIRE’S new police commissioner today defended himself amid allegations he ‘double claimed’ travelling expenses. Fleetwood Councillor Clive Grunshaw is facing calls to resign just a month after being elected to the £85,000-a-year position of Police and Crime Commissioner. Coun Grunshaw, who is also a Labour Lancashire County and Wyre Borough councillor, served on the Lancashire Police Authority before it was replaced by the new PCC post. Thus the smears against Cllr Grunshaw hit the local gasjet. A brief perusal on the internet has found this piece of intriguing journalism @ http://topofthecops.com/
A joint investigation by TopOfTheCops and the Sunday Times (£) this week has uncovered evidence that Lancashire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Clive Grunshaw has discovered time travel. Police experts will be excited that Grunshaw’s time machine will give previously unthinkable insight into criminal investigation, as officers will be able to travel back to the scene of a crime and observe it take place, allowing offenders to be identified. Philosophers and theoretical physicists will however be divided on whether Grunshaw’s discovery can safely be used to prevent crime from happening in the first place, due to the possible disruption such interventions may cause with the time-space continuum.
With murder and other such heinous crimes being poorly investigated by Lancashire’s finest, what value the £85k plus expenses for Mr Grunshaw to monitor and hold the Lancashire Plodders to account?
The system works something like this. An incident is reported and the Worlds Best move in to investigate. In the event of death, mysterious disappearance, a report is sent all over the place and eventually arrives at the Coroners desk. As with Hillsborough, the Coroner partially reads and makes a determination as to the parameters of any subsequent investigation and possible inquest. If the Coroner gets it wrong, as with Hillsborough and the Corporate Homicide of Mr Robert Michael Miller, the capacity for justice is controlled by the politicians at Westminster in the person of the Attorney General. Small wonder justice is sadly missing for victims and their families with such a labyrinthine system.
It has taken 23 years for the Hillsborough families to have the original coroners verdicts passed on to the Court for Appeal when the evidence of malfeasance was obvious to everyone outside of the Police and legal professions. What the authorities never envisaged with Hillsborough is that the cameras would keep rolling and evidence that clearly contradicted the verdict was available for those who have the tenacity and desire to find them.
What makes the position of Cllr Grunshaw untenable is that he HAS to be beyond reproach as his position demands scrupulous credentials – that should eliminate any politician from applying for the Post. As one Lancashire Labour MP confessed to me, he had no legal expertise in drafting law or even understanding statute. He/she get £67k pa for not being able to do their job. Is Cllr Grunshaw on an extra stipend for pushing the boundaries of credibility even deep into the public wallet?
So an approach to Councillor Grunshaw could be a complete waste of everyone's time?
Joan Humble ran from Office after her remarks that Poles were better then brits at work. Now we get another lieber stalwart going to make certain the fuzz investigate crime and criminality. Next they'll tell us they can cure our fiscal problems. How? By hocking us deeper into the Eastern revival. What a sad pathetic party that Blair, Brown, now the Multibrands twins represent.
ReplyDeleteMargaret Moran and Clive Grunshaw were sitting down for a break in their soon-to-be new store. As yet, the store wasn't ready, with only a few shelves set up. One said to the other, ' I bet any minute now some senior citizen is going to walk by, put his face to the window, and ask what we're selling.'
ReplyDeleteNo sooner were the words out of his mouth when, sure enough, a curious senior citizen walked to the window, had a peek, and in a soft voice asked
"What are you selling here?"
One of the men replied sarcastically, "We're selling assholes."
Without skipping a beat, the old timer said, "You're doing well. Only two left."