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15. Keith Vaz seeks law to sack South Yorkshire PCC Shaun Wright

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #11)

Wed Sep 10, 2014, 03:09 AM

Sep 2014

Another case for introducing a right to recall elected representatives?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-29135245

Home Affairs Select Committee chairman Keith Vaz said he would ask the home secretary about the possibility of legislation to remove South Yorkshire's police and crime commissioner.

Shaun Wright has been urged to resign since the publication of a report which found at least 1,400 children were abused in Rotherham. Mr Wright said he was not aware of the scale of the problem while a Labour councillor in the town.

"We don't believe you command the confidence of the public. For your own sense of honour, you should go," Vaz said. "I will be writing to the Home Secretary to see if there's the possibility of emergency legislation... We find your evidence today entirely unconvincing."

One member of the committee, Labour MP Paul Flynn, said: "You are the least credible witness I have ever come across. I don't believe what you are saying."

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Rotherham child abuse scandal: 1,400 children exploited, report finds [View all] LeftishBrit Aug 2014 OP

where were the parents, so many questions hollysmom Aug 2014 #1

In a similar, but smaller-scale, abuse scandal in Oxford where I live... LeftishBrit Aug 2014 #10

Have been listening to BBC Radio TexasMommaWithAHat Sep 2014 #18

Terrible. 840high Aug 2014 #2

Shocking stuff T_i_B Aug 2014 #3

I have identified time this week to do some serious reading about this. non sociopath skin Aug 2014 #4

The far right is loving this T_i_B Aug 2014 #5

The Far Right - of which UKIP is typical ... non sociopath skin Aug 2014 #6

Police commissioner quits Labour (but doesn't resign as PCC) T_i_B Aug 2014 #7

The odds are that, if he goes, his replacement will be a rightwinger ... non sociopath skin Aug 2014 #8

Results from last time T_i_B Aug 2014 #9

Blog on manning a polling station for the West Midlands PCC by-election last week muriel_volestrangler Aug 2014 #11

Which brings us to another issue with PCC's T_i_B Aug 2014 #12

Keith Vaz seeks law to sack South Yorkshire PCC Shaun Wright T_i_B Sep 2014 #15

And he's finally resigned muriel_volestrangler Sep 2014 #16

Not before bloody time. non sociopath skin Sep 2014 #17

The Shia Chat site ChazII Aug 2014 #13

As some Taxi firms have been heavily implicated in this T_i_B Sep 2014 #14

Beyond Rotherham: scale of child sex exploitation T_i_B Oct 2014 #19

Rotherham Council 'not fit for purpose' over child abuse failings T_i_B Feb 2015 #20

Deeply worrying non sociopath skin Feb 2015 #21

Indeed T_i_B Feb 2015 #22

how utterly horrible niyad Jan 2016 #23

Still no arrests over top ranking paedophile rings dating back to the 60s. Bad Dog Jan 2016 #24

We're starting to see arrests in Rotherham T_i_B Jan 2016 #25