Jo Williams
23.8K posts
Zack Polanski and his partner called their narrowboat their “amazing home” for three years. He registered to vote there. If it was his main residence, council tax was due. None was paid. His team says he stayed there only “occasionally” - if true, there's a very big problem.
He’s talking about ‘values’ when he needs to rapidly operationalise 100 things which grab media cycle and make every part of the country better. Go after dodgy vape shops, give local authorities cash to remove chewing gum and graffiti *now*, ban high street charity ‘bins’, pigouvian tax on cans of spray paint, give Met a bollocking over de facto decriminalising phone and bike theft, bring back Burnham, reduce the size of the Lords, announce full northern powerhouse rail, have more bins in public spaces, refund BTP, promise to remove all those stupid benches that people aren’t really meant to sit on within 18 months. Have all unused phone boxes gone within 6 months. Move, get things done! But no, ‘values’.
We can confirm a mandatory referral will be made by our Professional Standards Department to the IOPC. This is on the grounds of the deaths occurring following previous police contact, specifically other domestic incidents being reported to us prior to Sunday.
