Iain Dale: Bloody Magistrates Are Revolting

Iain Dale had a post yesterday on a magistrate who has resigned as he doesn't like a sort of flat rate admin-come-restitution levy of £15 that they have to apply. Including to what the old fool calls "victimless crimes" whatever they are. He was an 'Alan'.

But fines are pretty arbritary anyway. Don't suppose this old buffer would have had a problem if there had been an unexplained £15 flat rate hike across the board? Not linked to restitution which may have been a presentation mistake - for some audiences at least.

We had our own Magistrate Alan (another Tory methinks?) making and getting away with "bloody foreigners" comments around the same time as Col "Blimp" Mercer got his.

And he allegedly used to boast at work (for a Council in the North, and he was a very lazy slacker by repute) how he had escaped punishment for drunken and dangerous driving (at 10 am in the morning) by pulling the "don't you know who I am" plus "I'm on my way to Sunday School" tricks.

Still - he didn't mow anyone down that time. It was a victimless non-crime thanks to his pulling rank.

Bloody Magistrates!