After all the damning things these two men have said about each other during the last month I still wonder if they can be trusted to lead the country as they seem to be 'in bed' with each other now!

Interesting to see both our leading parties policies on crime messrs Cameron and Clegg need to pull their fingers out soon!

Lib

Crime is one of the biggest issues facing the country. It is far too high and too many people don't feel safe - in their own homes and in their town centres. The Liberal Democrats want to cut crime to make you safer.

For too long the debate about policing and criminal justice policy has been centred around what sounds tough rather than what works to cut crime. Labour and the Tories have become embroiled in a sentencing arms race in a bid to pander to tabloid newspaper editors and to exploit a politics of fear. As well as putting 3,000 more police officers on the beat by scrapping ID cards, the Liberal Democrats are committed to meaningful reform of the police service and to putting criminal justice policy on an evidence-based footing. These proposals were outlined in our Cutting Crime by Catching Criminals paper in September.

Crime

There are a million violent crimes a year; a hundred serious knife crimes every day. Yet police officers spend more time on paperwork than they do out on patrol.

Labour's obsession with bureaucratic targets and box-ticking has hindered the fight against crime. They have launched endless initiatives and top-down schemes which have made little difference. The string of broken promises has undermined people's trust. We can't go on with the police filling in forms instead of fighting crime.

The criminal justice system is broken. We need to rebuild confidence in the system and convince people it is working to protect them.

Con

Our aim is to restore responsibility and discretion to the police - getting them out of police stations and out onto the street fighting crime - while making them truly accountable to the people they serve.

We will do that by:

* Giving people the power to elect an individual who will set the policing priorities for their community; and
* Providing detailed data about crime in their area.

By giving people robust information and real power, they will be able to force the police to focus on the crime that affects their communities.

Hmmmm .....the Tory record on crime is a bit questionable, I wonder what they will do now. Especially as now Labour has handed all sorts of goodies to them on a plate. Goodies ,such as jury trial no longer being a right and the suspension of Habeus Corpus. I remember the "Suss Law " in the eighties and how it helped spark off riots across the country. I hope they dont do the normal Tory knee-jerk thing and just have a clampdown on youth ! It needs more sensitive handling than that.Perhaps if there was a very public purge of white collar crime ,tax evaders etc first it might just help get the people onside.At present most people's experience of the Police is not very positive and if they just start chucking their weight about because they have been de-regulated and freed from paperwork it will go against the public feeling and will aggravate an already grumpy population.

My main concern is the EU and Immigration the EU is destroying our country I am a former Conservative I believe this coalition are completing the destruction of our country that Labour started.