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Hum. I see what you mean Drem, personally I thought she sounded/looked awful and the excuses don't take into account she has been given quite a symbolic position with a lot of responsibility and clearly more is expected from her than that.
This is probably a superficial judgement, but the tweets publicly using language that as a police representative, you cannot, and should not ever use. As soon as that went into the public domain she was not able to do that job, because she's alienated huge portions of the people she is supposed to be bringing closer to the force and representing.
Yes, she's young etc and normally (if not taking a highly scrutinised role with the police with a huge responsibility attached) allowances can and should be made for that, but also, not all young people think it's a good idea to make themselves look like a total dickbag in public then expect no come-back when they jump on board a gimmicky political handcart.
Maybe the real message here is that the police shouldn't be using under-formed children to do an adult's job as a kind of political currency to look like the are trying to get in with the youf, and if they are, a cursory facebook/twitter check like the majority of employers do nowadays wouldn't be a terrible idea.
I agree a lot of the comments are needlessly personal-such as her hair etc. but then she's made the same cheap throwaway jibes about pikeys, fags, illegals so it's a bit rich to complain.