Candidates for Gloucestershire's Police and Crime Commissioner take to the campaign trail

“King Shalom, how can i vote against the implementation of PCCs by voting for one of them? Your comment underlines the farce of modern democracy, it is sadly the illusion of choice. As soon as the "None of the Above" box is placed on the ballot cards then I will again find voting a worthwhile enterprise!”

“Douglasknows...........................exactly, ...............ermmmmmmmmm, isn't that the old system?”

“The new commissioner should be promoted on merit, not voted in by people who have little or no idea on who to choose.”

“It will be Martin Surl for me. Unlike the others he is Politically Independent (although I do appreciate he may have opinions on political matters and political parties which is unavoidable) and has actually been a serving Police office from the bottom upwards and therefore actually has a clue about policing, public relations with the police and policing policy. On top of that he has also worked on counter terrorism issues so has a broad spectrum knowledge across the arena in which he hopes to SERVE the community.”

“@GlosYap2. Clearly I will be trying to find out what the other candidates stand for and making my choice(s) based on what I believe is best for my community and the local Constabulary. I have always believed that if you want change it is best to try and vote for it, rather than sit at home grumbling when things don't go the way you would wish them to. People may be either sceptical about, or totally against, this new system but I would urge everyone to find out about the candidates then go and vote, so we don't end up with someone you would rather not have running the Police. Would you want them run by someone representing an extreme party, such as the BNP, no I didn't think so!”

“King Shalom, surely IF you intend to vote in this "election" the least you could do would be to bother finding out for yourself? Otherwise your uneducated vote will be a lot more worthless than not voting at all! To all those not voting, well done! I will not be voting and i hope that as many people as possible boycott this farce so that the folk in Whitehall castle understand that the public want people in the job that know how to do the job and not political officers!”

“I will be voting but confess that I know little of the policies or intentions of all but one of the candidates. So far I have only received a flyer from one candidate, Rupi Dhanda, so at the moment she is ahead of all the others. Unless I can find out what the others are standing for I don't have much of a choice to make.”

“Yawn!”

“"He claims that when he was policing minister under the last Government he had set out a plan that would have meant cuts of just eight per cent, giving police chiefs an extra £1 billion to spend."

Liam Byrne "I'm afraid there is no money"

I'm curious, Mr Hanson, how you would have funded this extra £1billion when there was no money left?.....Of course, it's perfectly OK to make promises when there is not a cat's chance in hell of being elected.

It's has to be the only independent for me. Dhanda would be bottom of the list for some of the ridiculous comments she has made.”

“I'm sure Mrs. Dhanda's vote count will be helped by all the badgers in the county that will now vote for her. I won't be one of them, she seems to only care about the Barton area and I'm sure will do well there, but there are other voters and places to go Mrs. D!”