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And can you guess where that £100,000 will come from? That's right, an increase in council tax.

I would hope it would come out of the bonuses for the senior managers responsible for the relevant department.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. I would hope that too if only experience didn't lead so strongly away from such a conclusion. At best the person responsible will get a golden handshake [huge pay off to leave].

What I would expect to happen is this would result in the need for further executive level training for the relevant managers, which probably happens at some nice country house hotel for a week or so.

Once they have passed this course they will probably get a bonus for completing extra training.

The carrot and stick are in the wrong place. It's the individual that needs to be fined (obviously not £100,000 though, just an amount that will make them cry and inconvenience them somewhat). You can bet they won't make that mistake twice.

Companies just factor in fines as the cost of doing business.

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