Exemplary Punishment

Vexatious lefty lawyers have launched yet another unprovoked attack upon the bedrock of Britishness by maliciously maintaining that the police shouldn't be allowed to crack heads and fine whomever they please. A nurse was fined £10,000 by Greater Manchester Police after staging a protest at the real-terms pay cut which the Government has recommended in order to compensate for all that undeserved applause. She offered the police a risk assessment and took precautions, including a limit on attendance, to keep her protest safe; Greater Manchester Police imposed the fine anyway, because peaceful protest is unnecessary in a democracy where there is policing by consent, and because they thought it might be fun. Dominic Cummings remains at large, and the matter has since been complicated by the High Court's interference in the stomping of the Sarah Everard protesters; which only goes to show what happens to law and order when the will of the people is reduced to mere legalism.