Oh yes, the workgangs in hi-vis suits. look, I hate vandalism as much as the next Northern Quarter business owner who had their glass windows ETCHED so the graffiti is impossible to remove.
But... why do Tory policies always seem to be determined by rolodex? Sooner or later every one flips back around, despite not having worked the last five hundred times.
Imagining that fines can punish 'delinquency' fails to understand that delinquents have nothing. That's kind of the point.
And there's another question. Is this a bigger punishment than the one for peaceful protest?
Oh, the last time we had work gangs in hi vis vests as punishment? they made Misfits. Remember when people were tough on crime and tough on the CAUSES of crime? Maybe they should make pissing in public a crime and send some officers down to Henley?
Nah. The new slogan should be Demonstartably Performative on Crime, Except Lockdown Parties