To want to know who was issued partygate fines?

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Heard on the radio today that apparently it’s not in the public’s best interests to know who the fines have been issued to.

I’d quite like to know. These are people who are voted in by us (well not me, hell would freeze over before I’d vote Tory), and paid their wages with public money.

Yet for some reason, despite having committed crimes, they are deserving of anonymity. I’ve never heard of that before, victims yes, but not perpetrators.

From The Guardian today:

“Scotland Yard said it would not confirm which events fines had been issued for, or the identity of anyone who received a fixed-penalty notice”.

I can’t say I’m even surprised that this is happening, but I’m sure as hell angry about it.

Oh and meanwhile my own local Tory MP has just had the whip taken away and suspended from the parliamentary party after allegations of sexual harassment of 3 women and cocaine use. He’s checked himself into a (private) psychiatric hospital.

They really are such a charming bunch.

I read about that MP and that photo of him with the cocaine. I wasn't surprised but I bet people will still vote conservative at the next election and for him or his successor , if he steps down.
We do deserve to know who the fines were for but we probably won't.

@the80sweregreat oh definitely, you could stick a blue rosette on a pig around here and people would vote for it.

My Tory MP is brilliant but that business with David Warburton is mental. Surely, even the thickest of thick MP's wouldn't allow themselves to be photographed in front of lines of white powder. Whole things very bizarre

These are people who are voted in by us (well not me, hell would freeze over before I’d vote Tory), and paid their wages with public money.

I don't think they're MPs, are they? (Unless Boris is among them) - staff members working at no. 10 I understood.

I honestly have better things to do.

If elected members of Parliament have been fined then yes I think their constituents should be made aware.

Number 10 staff? I'm less sure. Presumably there are internal disciplinary processes at work there.

@Aprilx

I honestly have better things to do.

God, same! Can't be arsed entertaining it

The fines so far relate to the leaving party the night before Prince Philips funeral I thought? No one elected those people, they’re staff / civil servants. Not really any different to your average office worker.