Where Does The Money Do Too?

[Barsel]

When people are fined for breaking the Covid rules, where does the money go too?

[fiction-factory]

Obviously it's not enough to act as a deterrent for some.
The article also mentions a party of 100 in Bolton which has the highest infection rate in the country yet still people feel the need to organise/attend large parties.

[Bobbisox1]

Hope it's not to controversial but Bolton has quite a high Asia community and that community tend to visit each other's homes as opposed to being in a pub, that's their culture although not necessarily 100 people in one house

[fiction-factory]

I'm pretty sure the teen won't end up paying £10000 unless all his mates/partygoers have a whipround or there is a crowdfunding exercise.

[fiction-factory]

Yes, there is a pattern where the highest rated areas have a large Asian population where large family gatherings are common, and households are often large and multi generational , but the pubgoers and clubbers in these areas tend to be young and white

[nailit]

After a decade + of austerity saving measures, where has the money gone?

[fiction-factory]

We spend more than we get in. By reducing expenditure it narrows the gap. You could say it has gone towards repaying the debt. But the debt has now grown significantly for other reasons.
Anyway, what do you mean bu austerity. it's always been with us- it's trying to stop spending more than you can afford. Seems sensible (although i accept some situations require it, Keynes and all that, but not indefinitely)

[Peter Pedant]

well the fines go mostly to the consolidated fund ( big acct in the Treasury as no tax is set to one purpose )
BUT
tjhe fixed penalties arent fines

I think it is still probabl the treasury

fr instance = proceeds of crime - again not a fine
" For example, using a £90,000 POCA confiscation order: 50% goes to HM Treasury, with the other 50% is split into thirds. one third goes to the agency responsible for the collection of the monies (normally the Magistrates Courts) one third goes to the Financial Investigator (the relevant local authority)"

[Peter Pedant]

// Hope it's not to controversial but Bolton has quite a high Asia community//

yeah there is a professor of behavioural psych who wishes to be on SAGE, screaming his tots off on tv
that behaviour in a pub is different to behaviour in the house

[which is kinda obvious really - no smoochy smoochy in schools unless you count the teachers that is!]