A minor detail.

Did she say Jehovah? Persecute the Heretics! Etc.

Its probably buried in there somewhere 

LOL - those tweets were only posted on Synagog Weekly and not for gentile consumption.

That hair is a crime in itself.  Someone pass that girl a brush!

OT i know but have you noticed how many females in the public eye eventually end up with blond bobs like GLoria Hunniford.

^^^ this one has started early

It's a funny old game innit?

 

Let's hope she falls off the wagon soon.

A wagon train, going at 100mph.

 

 

It reminds me of a bale of straw.

 

All we need now is a crow perched atop the matted bale.

 

The UK's first youth police and crime commissioner, Paris Brown, has resigned from her post following criticism of messages she posted on Twitter.

The 17-year-old, who was appointed last week, said she was "quitting in the interests of the young people of Kent".

Police are investigating her over tweets she posted between the ages of 14 and 16 which could be considered racist and anti-gay.

Kent PCC Ann Barnes said it was "a very sad day".

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22083032

Was just gonna say that MrsH 

which ever side of the fence you sit on with this, she's virtually unemployable now as no prospective employer will want to hire someone who has publicly written homophobic and racist comments, even if they were written in her teens.

 

I think a lot of the blame lies with those that employed her - if they wanted a squeaky clean representative, they should have done better background checks  and herself for failing to acknowledge for so long that she alone was the author of what appeared on twitter 

 

Personally I think the salary was way too high as well as the weight of responsibility 

 

I know you can change your opinions and be sorry about what she has done, so she's gonna have to do an awful lot of charity/voluntary work to dispel what most  people probably think of her 

Blimey ! Haven't the police got anything better to do? Who breaks a butterfly in a wheel, as we used to say.

Makes you think that the Police aint doing their job and can't do background checks.

Made her and themselves look fools

Shes done alot of damage to the image of young people, as if their image could sink any lower.

I agree with this

And now she's being investigated by her former employer

I'm so glad the likes of Twitter.FB etc, weren't about when I was younger. I really and truly would hate to think what I may have written when I was young and foolish ...................it's bad enough now I'm old(er) and foolish 

 

Silly girl 

I thought the self-same thing Sooz. There but for the grace etc.  However, I'm angry at how the Kent police have handled this. By their neglect they have made her very vulnerable. 

Who will employ her now after this?

I'm sure that most employers aren't as sensitive as we think and will put it down to youthful high jinks. Is she currently in further education or was that a full time job?

I'm guessing it was a full time job with that salary Joe 

I thought the same.

at that salary I'd have thought it was supposed to be a full time job - The commissioner said she was going to go to university instead 

Life ... its a learning experience that can be harsh.

I wish her well and hope this is a wake up call

She will probably be a Commissioner in ten years time 

She will probably be on TOWIE in two weeks time!

One hopes that they'll go into her background a bit more than what they appear to have done here then  

 

This begs the question that if at interview you are asked "At any point have you posted remarks on Facebook or Twitter that would be considered inappropriate or prejudiced in a anyway" and you answer no, should the employer be allowed to have access to your account to verify your response?

 

Otherwise I cannot see how an employer can be any more thorough.

 

Given the amount of correspondence some people make, I can see why employers would not want to have to make these kinds of searches.

 

Making a declaration before employment is the usual way these things are done, the penalty if found to be untrue is discipline or dismissal.

 

Are we expecting the Police to trawl through individuals social network accounts during the employment process?

 

I can see your point, and there's also a data protection issue here I think 

They need a wrecking crew to destroy a house in Derby at the moment.

Frankly, yes. It is done routinely these days in HR departments in many places pre-employment. This was a high-profile appointment and they had a duty of care to ensure she was the right person for the 'job'. 

Wasn't that destroyed in a fire?   I know, I'll get me coat 

 

I forgot about data protection Sprout. I have recently gone through some high level checks and the amount of information I had to disclose was immense. Two documents of 20 and 10 pages to complete which took weeks to be verified and passed.

Ther house is still standing, it's a burnt out empty shell, but it's like Elton John...still standing.

Yeah, it's just cos I work with unemployed people and obviously have to keep a lot of info private that I thought about it  

 

Seriously?, are you telling me HR  department now request access to individuals social network accounts to verify that they do not post inappropriate comments?

 

I do find that hard to believe because as has been said, there are data protection issues. Unless the individual hands over access rights, Facebook for example will not grant access to any UK authority or business. Now I know that to be fact as it is something I learnt just this week.

 

I think there's a Google war going on about the same thing 

They are going to demolish it and the adjacent house too..