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Poll: Should Kent youth PCC Paris Brown be judged on her tweets?

 

Sunday 07 April 2013 11:56 BST
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Paris Brown, 17, is the UK’s first Youth Police and Crime Commissioner, after being appointed by Kent Police
Paris Brown, 17, is the UK’s first Youth Police and Crime Commissioner, after being appointed by Kent Police (Justin Sutcliffe)

The appointment of 17-year-old Paris Brown as Britain's first youth police and crime commissioner was controversial from the off. Now the Mail on Sunday has reported that she used her Twitter account @vilulabelle to post racist and anti-gay comments, and also details of drug-taking, drinking and her sex life, prompting calls for her resignation only a week into the job.

Do you think the tweets are relevant to her competency? Or in an age when our every half-thought and utterance is catalogued forever by social media, should we have more forgiveness for public figures with a past?

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