Surrey Police & Crime Commissioner on Cycling

I have the gross misfortune to live on her "patch".  The state of roads policing (and the actual roads) and consequent danger everytime one gets on a bike is simply staggering.  Drug driving is endemic, as is texting while driving, driving through red lights, speeding, close passing and so on.  In the 25 years I have lived, cycle commuted, walked, run and driven here, I have never seen any enforcement of any kind, save at the scene of an accident.

Lisa Townsend very much views her police role through a political lens.

Four Conservative PCCs from the SE (Kent, Surrey, Sussex, TVP iirc) have a joint podcast called ReBuild which is virtually a Party Political Broadcast.

I find this quite worrying.

For herself, she is fairly transparently quite ignorant.

https://www.youtube.com/@Rebuildukonline

Locals should survey this PCCs statements for 'I can't interfere with operational decisions of the police'

What about all those schools that they keep building along with all of those highly paid teachers that get more time off than Gregg Wallace's agent? I have it on good authority that NONE of those kids has ever paid tax. And then they've got the cheek to want us to slow down whilst we drive past - who do they think we are, some kind of priest?

Look, I'm not anti-education, I just don't want to waste perfectly good tax money on non-tax-payers.