THE British public has inconveniently called to mind that people holding parties in lockdown were frequently fined £10,000, not £100.
With the Metropolitan Police ready to issue the first fines to Downing Street partygoers, Britain has reminded them that people who attended birthday parties, just to choose a random example, were handed fixed penalty notices for £10,000.
Joanna Kramer of Swindon said: “It is an awful lot, but that’s how lockdown was being policed. Without fear or favour or regard of ability to pay.
“The law was making an example of these people, you see. So it follows that anyone in an especially high-profile position who ignored the law will make an even better example to the whole country, plastered all over front pages and news bulletins.
“Issuing £100 fines to all attendees? That’s not the law as it was written, or indeed applied. These people don’t warrant special treatment. Whack the f**kers with the lot.”
Student Ryan Whittaker, who was fined the maximum amount for having a piss-up in his garage with 20 mates, agreed: “I don’t think the police should be saying I’m better or more important than anyone else. And with these fines they kind of are.
“Ten thousand each. That seems fair to me. Oh, and that’s per party.”
