Retired Mardy Gov

@PC_Angry Why on earth did he take the job in the first place ?

FAIL

@____Foxtrot____ @RobertMidgley07 @TerraOrBust They’ll be on Rightmove by the start of next week

Akrotiri and Dhekelia are British, and they’re not negotiable Cyprus can’t abolish someone else’s sovereign land These sovereign areas also reinforce the UN buffer zone and deter any further Turkish advancement - they're essential to local and regional security and stability

@muttonshunter It’s about accountability for actions Anyway the stocks would make a mess if the locals started lobbing rotten fruit/veg

@MardyGov If we're not going to imprison criminals for all but the worst offences, we should just bring back the stocks and flogging.

Community Service? What is actually delivered to the community by those receiving this ‘sentence’ from courts?

FR only has those who are wanted on the database , it doesn’t randomly pick on people

@BettyBoochichi2 If you are plugging gaps with overtime,surely this shows there are workforce/skillset gaps that need addressing. Most smaller forces have a small pool of individuals who hold the vast majority of skills. If you need that skill, then you have to pay OT if they aren’t on duty

Norfolk Constabulary is facing questions after it emerged a single officer had received £30,000 in overtime payments last year, with the force's total overtime bill topping £5.7m. The officer, who has not been identified, is one of 25 who were all paid more than £17,600 for working extra hours, on top of their salaries. Almost nine out of ten officers on the force received overtime payments, with an average of almost £3,000 going to each one. The figures have raised alarm, with critics saying extra hours are draining budgets, with crimes going unsolved and victims unheard. Darwin Friend, head of research at the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: "Taxpayers across Norfolk will be deeply concerned by these extraordinary overtime costs.” "With police budgets already stretched, spending millions of pounds on overtime payments is simply unsustainable.” "Norfolk police need to ensure every penny of taxpayers' money is spent protecting the public and catching criminals." In total, the force made £5,012,402 in overtime payments to 1,714 officers - about nine out of ten of the total number - and £782,353 to 603 police staff. Of the top 25 overtime earners, 23 were male and two were female. The force say the spending is because of the hundreds of additional working hours clocked up policing large-scale weekly protests and counter protests that began last summer over the Brook Hotel in Bowthorpe being used to house migrants. Similar protests were also staged at the Park Hotel in Diss and in Great Yarmouth adding to the overtime bill. A Norfolk Constabulary spokeswoman said: “We recognise this is a significant overtime cost, and much of this was driven by the demands of policing a significant increase in the number of protests last summer.” “Overtime is often required to police protests or large events, otherwise staff would have to be removed from core policing duties which would diminish our ability to respond to emergency calls or undertake neighbourhood policing.” “Police regulations require that when rest days are cancelled at short notice, which is often the case when we are notified of protests at short notice, officers are compensated, and these national rules apply to all forces.” Nick Taylor, chair Reform in Norwich, who stood for councillor in Bowthorpe losing by one vote, said police were underfunded and criticised the “extra burden” placed on the force by migrants being housed in the county. He said: “Norfolk police is traditionally underfunded. People would be shocked just how few officers are on duty at any one time.” “We need extra officers but instead money is being spent on overtime for an issue caused by people who shouldn’t be here in the first place.” “The Brook Hotel has been an issue for four years with concerns among local people about who is there and associated criminality.” "Inevitably that adds costs to the taxpayer money that could be better spent.” At the height of the protests last summer, Norfolk Chief Constable Paul Sanford called for extra resources from the government, saying he could not "crackdown" on crime "if I've got dozens of police officers stood outside a hotel". Other demands on manpower also came from policing protests about the Gaza conflict and demonstrations on issues ranging from the Norwich Western Link road to animal rights and transgender rights. Police have said overtime can be the most cost-effective means of dealing with demands outside of day-to-day policing. Overtime is paid to the usual hourly rate between 7am and 7pm Monday to Friday and time a half between 7pm and 7am. Extra hours worked on Saturdays and Sundays are paid at time and a half, but on public holidays it is double time. Continued…

@InspGadgetBlogs Even if they haven’t , they are probably one of the biggest dangers to the Nation as they are unhinged. When they were purely Eco based, they were tolerable at a local government level.

Of course they have.

@afneil It’s a catastrophic time to have her & Starmer at the helm. They prioritise not working, vote farming and destabilisation.

This is not good news given what will now happen to UK finances as a result of the war on Iran. And perhaps we can have some silence from all those who piled to exaggerate the significance of January’s freak figures. The UK borrowed a higher than expected £14.3bn in February. The shortfall between government spending and income was £2.2bn higher than in the same month a year ago and far above the £8.5bn forecast by economists polled by Reuters. At a time of peril for nation’s finances it is frightening to have R Reeves as Chancellor.

About the only sensible bit of proposed legislation from this cluster of a government (& no, they don’t deserve a capital G)

I think we have to accept that Keir Starmer is 100% scandal. Nothing will take him down other than possibly electoral oblivion on 7th May. Seemingly every other day a new lie or scandal is exposed and we are stuck with him It has exposed our democracy whereby we are governed by a political party no longer has any moral right to be in power. I am still arguing for one fifth of our MPs to be elected every year rather than all of them being elected every 5 years. We would have already had the opportunity to vote out a huge number of Labour MPs with another 150 seats up for grabs within a few months. Surely it would be a better way.

If that is true, it’s a disgrace.

@MentalHealthCop @RobertSole9 @grahamwettone @LucyGoBag I bet she got ChatGPT to do it “Make this comms statement sound like I’m uber intelligent and so it will impress my direct peers. Don’t use UK English or anything a pleb may understand”

@RobertSole9 @MardyGov @grahamwettone @LucyGoBag It's not clever, though - I count myself as an well-educated man and I've no idea at all what that phrase from her means. Stared at it for a while - and I doubt even she knows.

I knew the Nottingham Inquiry would be revelatory but even I am surprised by just how it is hitting every single issue that emergency response has been failing in for 10 years. It’s truly devastating.

@MentalHealthCop @RobertSole9 @grahamwettone @LucyGoBag 😂😂😂

@RobertSole9 @MardyGov @grahamwettone @LucyGoBag Presume you're laughing at "an well-educated" ... 😂 Experimenting with irony on a lovely morning.

@MentalHealthCop @RobertSole9 @grahamwettone @LucyGoBag It’s almost like a p*ssing completion - who can use the biggest and bestest words to look all intelligent 😂

@MardyGov @RobertSole9 @grahamwettone @LucyGoBag And I would argue those who are impressed by it all are not the important audiences - you've identified the two which are!

@InspM0r0s3 Never see it happening- my council area looks like it’s entering an apocalypse. If they are undertaking payback, tabards stating its community payback!

@MardyGov Litter picking & painting.

@RobertSole9 @grahamwettone @MentalHealthCop @LucyGoBag Unless there’s a low fat dressing to drench the salad in - nope. These word salads are what’s unhelpful - just use plain language, that both frontline cops & the public understand. Word salad only impressed a VERY small minority of people.

@MardyGov @grahamwettone @MentalHealthCop @LucyGoBag Any of you clever people tell me what the females word salad actually means for ground level cops to act upon xx

How, giving previous PM resignations for integrity issues, is this man clinging on?

@AvonandsomerRob Palm oil 🤮

Normally, Cadbury's chocolate is full-price just before Easter. Every shop I've been in, it has been discounted by 20 to 50% for the Mini Eggs range. I tried a small bar, and the taste has completely changed. It's tasteless & oily. What happened to Cadbury?

@AvonandsomerRob Stokes Tomato Sauce & Benecol spread

It's possible to keep the cost of your weekly shop low by "brand-switching" products to those on offer, or own brands. But is there ONE item that you simply won't compromise on, and have to buy the named brand even at maximum price?

WTAF?