Another Sussex Tory lines up at the trough.

Well, it appears that the people of Sussex have been fibbed to yet again. We were told that the Sussex Police and Crime Panel are responsible for ensuring that the Commissioner behaves herself and follows the rules.

Looks like this is yet another panel with advisory powers but no teeth, as we are told that they recommended not to appoint Steve Waight to the position of Deputy Dawg Police Commissioner. Our PCC decided to ignore this and reserve him a place at the trough anyway.

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Steve Waight is already a West Sussex County Councillor and a Worthing Borough Councillor, and rakes in £20k a year for those two, this position will knock that up to a cool £65k, not bad work if you can get it.

There are clearly questions of outside interests involved here, I wonder if this decision was even made by the Commissioner or if it was on orders from the party. The fact that The Bourne Supremacy has ignored the Panel that she supposedly answers to, suggests that she is dancing to someone else's fiddle.

The story we're being told is that Bourne of Satan himself worked out the the workload was going to be too much for her without a Deputy, yet all we have seen her do in the last three months is a draft policy proposal that could be written on the back of a postage stamp, and a couple of media engagements with her fellow party members, oh and not forgetting the Farcebook Q&A session which resulted in lots of Qs but very few As.

Maybe she needs a deputy to help her understand the instructions to the Lego police station she's building in order to prove how much she knows about policing.

It's time for the Police and Crime Panel to all resign in protest, as they are clearly serving no purpose and are wasting their time by making valid points about appointing someone to a powerful and well paid position who clearly cannot do the job as they already have too many fingers in the pie.

Go on, I dare you...........