The first big test for an elected Police and Crime Commissioners is not going very well. Plodding Independent Ron Ball from Warwickshire got skewered by Paxman on Newsnight last night, while Labour’s West Midlands PCC Bob Jones was equally useless on yesterday’s Daily Politics:

Perhaps that could be because Jones involved in this up to his neck. Here he is delivering a letter into Mitchell’s office trying to stir up the incident last year:

His note was published by LabourList, before they changed their tune. The Fed loved him…