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To think Paris Brown should be sacked at once!

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seeminglyso · 07/04/2013 17:02

What lessons otherwise are we sending to teenagers!

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kim147 · 07/04/2013 18:14

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manticlimactic · 07/04/2013 18:16

Her Twitter page has gone.

VivaLeBeaver · 07/04/2013 18:19

I disagree actually that a grammar school/private school kid couldn't bring something to the job. I went to a grammar school and was hanging around shopping centres, getting into bother, etc. I joined the police cadets at 16 and spent 3 years helping to set up and run crime prevention type schemes aimed at local teens. I spent a lot of time running various clubs, etc getting to know the local teens. If you're approachable and have good communication skills you get accepted even if you have a different background.

I also think there will be plenty of teens from a less privileged background who wouldn't use homophobic and racist language.

Mainly I think it shows a gross error of judgement on the part of Ann Barnes for not checking her twitter and Facebook accounts before taking her on.

FrillyMilly · 07/04/2013 18:23

I'm intrigued to know what her job was where she was drunk. The article says this 'Mrs Barnes said the teenager was currently on an apprenticeship and was working with young people on an outreach project. She said she wanted to get some qualifications before going on to university.' Surely even the most stupid of teens must know you shouldn't be drunk in work and if you are it's best not to tweet about it.

Viviennemary · 07/04/2013 18:26

Absolutely. I could hardly believe it when I heard on TV. The fact that she will get this job is an insult to every decent hard working young person in the country. She must go.

Viviennemary · 07/04/2013 18:29

She sounds a very nasty piece of work to me. The police must be mad to think she is going to improve things. Racist and homophobic. what exactly is she going to advise on.

Birdsgottafly · 07/04/2013 18:37

I doubt that when she was posting that she was drunk and horny, that she was, teens do that for show, unfortunately. My 17 year old is a completely different girl than she was at 14 and would have posted stupid stuff, sometimes using slang. I have pulled her up when she has come across as "ist", teens can put things in a clumsy way and do like to show off. I think that this can be used to show teens how their behaviour can impact on their future. Is expecting the person who answers the phone in a local take away to be able to speak enough English to get an order right, racist? I don't know anything about Paris, but I don't think that she should be sacked based on what I read in that report. There was a contestant on Britain's Got Talent around the time that called herself a "Pikey" and it was used by the press. It would be a good way of her now addressing her use of that word and getting the importance of correct language.

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navada · 07/04/2013 18:47

Who is she?

pansyflimflam · 07/04/2013 18:49

Yes she should go, immediately. The scousebrows and back-combed barnet alone should disqualify her

I really hope she does not speak for and represent teenagers in this country because if that is the standard as a rule then we are fucked. She is attention seeking and ignorant.

TiggyD · 07/04/2013 18:54

"Everyone on Made in Chelsea looks like a fucking fag.?

Of course she should be sacked. If you were LGBT in Kent, would you have more trust in the police now, or less. I hope she changes and has a nice life, but I don't think she is able to represent the Police Service now.

FrillyMilly · 07/04/2013 18:54

I grew up a lot between 14 and 17, I'm sure most people do. I used words at school that I'm not proud of and wouldn't use now (although not to the extent of this girl!). Surely though someone being paid money to do a public role should have had the foresight to delete unsavory tweets before they were picked up by the media.

I do think using the word pikey is not on and just because others do so does not make it acceptable especially when put in the context of 'will the pikeys stop nicking the train track metal'. The criticism of the takeaway staff being unable to speak English was not so eloquently put, she actually referred to them as 'illegals'.

DontSHOUTTTTTT · 07/04/2013 18:54

I think she should go to. Sad. There are so many great teenagers out there desperate for a job it seems a shame to give one to someone who clearly hasn't the maturity to do it justice.

expatinscotland · 07/04/2013 18:57

I think she should be sacked and the entire role scrapped. What a stupid waste of money and time!

Birdsgottafly · 07/04/2013 18:57

So her appearance should eliminate her then Pansy? So as long as the stereotyping is against a whole region (which happens to be Liverpool) and use that as an insult and the reason not to get a job, then that's ok.

pansyflimflam · 07/04/2013 18:58

Mind you it is a bit of a modern parable abpout being careful what you write on the internet isn't it. I for one would never ever leave any trail of my own life using a real name. That is not to say I don't anonymously but facebook and a real name twitter is crazy....

GrowSomeCress · 07/04/2013 18:59

navada it was explained on the first page

Viviennemary · 07/04/2013 19:01

She reminds me of Vicki Pollard. In fact she'd probably be a better bet.

pansyflimflam · 07/04/2013 19:02

Not eliminate her from a job no, her repugnant views are good enough on their own. But someone needs to have a word about the brows......... She looks a bloody state. I was being a ironic about the awful look but she looks awful and then wants to be taken seriously. The thing is I think that kind of commonly adopted look by young women was part of the attraction for choosing her, alos a non plummy accent to - essentially looking as if she is a 'resgulr' person. Posh kid from West Sussex who has ponies would not cut it I am sure.

But yes, for all those reasons she needs to go

pansyflimflam · 07/04/2013 19:04

Expat is right though it should be scrapped, the role I mean it is just an exercise in looking as if they are listening.... PR spin and nothing more

GrowSomeCress · 07/04/2013 19:06

Yeah, the job itself is probably pretty useless!

maddening · 07/04/2013 19:09

I can't get that they have just accepted her "I didn't really mean it" excuse.

Chipstick10 · 07/04/2013 19:09

I think she deserves a second chance. It's not like she wrote those tweets whilst in the job.
I don't know how she got the job in the 1 st place.
If she were my dd I'd be very disappointed at the words used
Those eyebrows needs sorting
And Keith Vaz is a pompous arse.

Gossipmonster · 07/04/2013 19:12

Shellyboobs Erm no Hmm

Didn't even cross my mind - like it did yours.

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