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So, Kent's youth police and crime commissioner has been thrown into the limelight due to her twitter past.

Although incredibly stupid and naive, I can't help but feel sorry for the way she is being portrayed in the Daily Mail (quelle surprise!)

It feels a little like muck raking - are people not allowed to change their views or reform? I suppose the bigger question it has highlighted is was there really a need to create such a role and was it fair to expect a 17 year old to take this much flack?
Good Lord!
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Yeah, this seems a bit harsh. Apparently these tweets are a few *years* old. I shudder to think about the sort of crap I was probably writing at that age.
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It amazes me the daily mail are getting their knickers in a knot over this, I thought they hated "pikeys" and "faggots" anyway?
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The point I'm more interested in in all this is, if the Police Commissioner woman really wants a £60,000 salary, rather than £75,000 one, why the hell didn't she hand the odd £15,000 to the Chief Constable to employ somebody to actually fight crime?
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Makes you pine for the simpler times when kids just nicked things from shops!
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I agree with Nick. Her salary is 85% of a new PC on the current salary! We could do with a few more...

She's resigned now anyway...
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I missed this story when it first started last week. Was it just me who saw her on TV and thought she was Adele?
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Adele with no stylist.

Her resignation piece was well composed. And the I saw her gabble through it.

Terrible.
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