A million jobs are at risk due to the ending of lockdown support schemes, with a new study suggesting that one in 16 U.K. firms are poised to close permanently in the next quarter following more than a year of forced temporary closures. The Guardian has the story.
One in 16 firms say that they are now at risk of closure in the next quarter, the study by the LSE’s Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID) has found. While it marks a major rise in confidence since the worst depths of the pandemic in January, there are warnings that the risk to so many workers coincides with the planned end of the furlough jobs scheme and a cut to universal credit by £20 a week.
There are also concerns that some industries are still being hit disproportionately by the fallout from Covid, with the entertainment and travel industries still making heavier use of the furlough scheme than other sectors. The number of people being paid through the U.K. scheme stood at 1.9 million at the end of June and it is due to close at the end of next month.
Huge uncertainty remains over the economy’s direction in the next six months. While confidence has risen, there are warnings over complacency. Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who founded the Alliance for Full Employment group to promote jobs protection and work creation programmes, said “a new jobs crisis point is approaching as furlough ends”. …
Peter Lambert, one of the authors of the POID research, said the end of the furlough scheme would be “an inflection point” where the economy could go either way. He added: “I think there will probably need to be some continuation of support in specific sectors. My bet is there’ll be more targeted support, because unless the economy really, really picks up, there’s going to be lots of people still left in the lurch in specific sectors.”
There are also concerns over the impact on families switching from furlough support to universal credit, especially as the £20-a-week increase brought in at the start of the pandemic is to be withdrawn this autumn.
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Nothing says ‘proportionality’ like jailing someone for memes/FB posts in England while in Ireland the Albanian migrant that stabbed a man gets bail;
”A MAN CHARGED over a knife attack in Dublin, which resulted in another man being hospitalised, has been granted bail with “strict” conditions.
The incident happened at around 1pm on Monday at Marlborough Street in the city centre, where thousands had turned out to celebrate the homecoming of the Irish Olympians.
Viron Hykaj, 39, of Parnell Street, Dublin 1, was accused of assault causing harm to a named man and production of “a large filleting knife” as a weapon during the incident.
The injured male, who is in his 40s, was conveyed to the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital for treatment for injuries believed to be non-life-threatening.”
https://www.thejournal.ie/man-accused-of-marlborough-street-knife-attack-released-on-bail-6462389-Aug2024/
Somebody must’ve researched his name because it doesn’t say in the article that he’s Albanian;
https://x.com/EoinLenihan/status/1823380085484769451/photo/1
I think she would have been fine had she stabbed someone and not been British;
”A woman accused of buying eggs and water for rioters to throw at police outside a hotel housing asylum seekers has been remanded into custody.
Barbara Barker, 52, of Tyndall Avenue, Manchester, pleaded not guilty to violent disorder at Manchester Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday afternoon.
Prosecutor Suzanne Ludlow alleged Barker was a ‘willing participant in the disorder’ and ‘aided and abetted the riots’ by buying eggs and water from a nearby shop for protesters on July 31.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13739407/Woman-accused-buying-eggs-water-rioters-throw.html
Her mistake was buying them. If it was just a case of shoplifting she would not be challenged.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-justice-turning-into-vengeance-against-some-of-the-rioters/
Mr O’Neill dancing around the edges in order to remain on side. No mention of the third world thuggery of the islamists, the machetes and knives, oh no or the siege of Birmingham. In fact muslim and islam don’t get a single mention in this article. Coming to this article without knowing the background a reader could be forgiven for thinking the rioting and subsequent court dealings were all about white, working-class, mindless hatred rather than British anger at being alienated in their own country.
“No one is going to lose sleep over the 29-year-old sentenced to 30 months for trying to set fire to a police van in Liverpool”
Why not mention the non-English speaking tw#t torching a double decker bus during the Harehill riots?
All a question of balance.
“Don’t lock me up, I’m just asking questions.”
Which will probably get you locked up ! Spot as usual HP
Thanks Freddy.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/13/britain-has-blinded-itself-to-the-growing-islamist-threat/
Tom Harris having a go at the ‘far right.’
Met any ‘far right’ Mr Harris?
Exactly how I saw this
Tuesday Morning A404 & A4155 Little Marlow Rd Marlow SL7 1RA
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/37338
Russian regional authorities have announced the largest evacuation of Russian citizens from a war zone since the Second Chechen War.
Nearly 194,000 people are set to be evacuated from areas in the Kursk and Belgorod regions due to the ongoing Ukrainian military offensive, according to statements from regional governors.
What is really going on?
As we have seen, none of the pro Putin duraks on here have any clue….
In a spirit of helpfulness:
Mechanised warfare for dummies: Lesson No. 0
Time spent on reconnaissance is seldom wasted.
Chaos can ensue from inefficient communications, command and control.
Dismounted infantry are unable to sustain offensive operations for several days, are quickly exhausted.
Combined arms tactics are critical. The coordination and integration of air and ground combat assets is key. Integration of all arms into combined arms units at the lowest levels maximizes the speed and shock effect of manouevre armour.
Emphasis on training and individual preparedness is a traditional military virtue. In this regard, one volunteer is worth several pressed men.
Offense is the best means of defence. Offensive tactics require leaders who can react swiftly to changing conditions and circumstances. Flexibility and initiative on the part of junior leaders is important.
Of course the Kiev Post is the place to look for accurate information on what is going on in Russia.
The significance of a battle at Kursk isn’t going to be lost on either side.
This ‘incursion’ is another piece of evidence that the Russian military isn’t very effective. They aren’t going to be in Paris by Christmas. The Russian Maginot Line of giant minefields obviously didn’t extend far enough.
Should it be surprising that civilians are leaving a war zone? Are you not aware that a military force attacking civilians is a war crime, whereby Ukraine is certainly a specialist in this area? And Ukraine being frustrated at not having reached the Kursk nuclear power plant has resulted in them once more releasing drone attacks against the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant: are they insane? How can anyone with an ounce of common sense shell a nuclear power plant? And the elite ‘Ukrainian’ forces attacking Kursk are heard speaking Polish, French and English, i.e. they are mercenaries. What a shambles this war is.
A military force attacking civilians is most definitely a war crime.
All evidence of such war crimes should be presented to the International Criminal Court so that they can issue a warrant of arrest, as they have in this example:
On 17 March 2023, ICC Pre-Trial Chamber II issued warrants of arrest in the context of the situation in Ukraine: Mr Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.
https://www.icc-cpi.int/
Ukraine is not a State Party to the Rome Statute, but it has twice exercised its prerogatives to accept the Court’s jurisdiction over alleged crimes under the Rome Statute occurring on its territory, pursuant to article 12(3) of the Statute.
How convenient. And the supposed crime of the Russian President? Allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population (children) and that of unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation (under articles 8(2)(a)(vii) and 8(2)(b)(viii) of the Rome Statute).
And that is the only crime? And who is reporting the alleged crime? The western world, in deference to its US masters.
And no mention of the 16,000 or so Ukrainian civilian casualties killed since 2014 by Ukraine’s shelling of the eastern areas of the country, to ‘cleanse’ the country of ethnic Russians. What a surprise.
https://hub.conflictobservatory.org/portal/sharing/rest/content/items/97f919ccfe524d31a241b53ca44076b8/data
Credible evidence of the transfer of at least 6,000 unaccompanied Ukrainian children, many of whom ended up in “re-education” camps inside Russia.
What is surprising is that our Kiev supporter has not yet realised that a frquent Russian tactic is to select a location to lure opposing forces into in which they can then indulge in their favourite pastime of extreme attrition.
If they can persuade the opposition to use elite troops, then so much the better.
At least on commentator has suggested that this was a planned Russian operation to speed the demise of the Ukrainian regime
When this ultimately fails then Zelensky’s fingerprints are all over this initiative, and his many critics may well use it as a popular excuse to oust him.
No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thine own
Or of thine friend’s were.
Each man’s death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.
John Donne
Belgorod declares a state of emergency.
“We are making a decision to declare a regional emergency situation throughout the Belgorod region with a subsequent appeal to the government to declare a federal emergency situation,”
Vyacheslav Gladkov, Belgorod Governor
However, a Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesperson said that, in accordance with international law, Kyiv has no intention of annexing the Russian territory it is holding.
In exercising its right to self-defence, in accordance with Article 51 of the UN Charter, Ukraine has the right not only to defend itself, but will also comply with all international conventions and requirements of international humanitarian law. For the purposes of self-defence, the Ukrainian military has formed a buffer zone within the Kursk region.
https://t.me/Tsaplienko/58617
“In accordance with international law” – what a joke, as though marching through civilian areas and shooting anyone at will is “in accordance with international law”.
The perpetrators of war crimes will be found and prosecuted.
If you have any evidence, I have already told you where to send it.
If you are that concerned, get off your backside and do something, as others already have:
‘Their investigations also confirmed previous findings that Russian authorities used torture in a widespread and systematic way in various types of detention facilities.
New evidence collected in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions found Russian authorities used the same pattern of torture in areas under their control, mainly against men suspected of passing information to the Ukrainian authorities or supporting the Ukrainian armed forces.
The commissioners said their interviews with victims and witnesses revealed “a profound disregard towards human dignity by Russian authorities”. Witnesses reported situations in which torture had been committed so brutally that the victim died.
Recent investigations in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions showed that rape and other sexual violence were often committed together with additional acts of violence, including severe beatings, strangling, suffocating, slashing, shooting next to the head of the victim, and wilful killing.
In one instance, a 75-year-old woman who stayed alone to protect her property, was raped and tortured by a Russian soldier who hit her on the face, chest, and ribs, and strangled her, while interrogating her.
The soldier ordered the woman to undress and when she refused, he ripped off her clothes, cut her abdomen with a small sharp object and raped her several times. The woman also suffered several broken ribs and teeth.’
https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/coiukraine/A-78-540-AEV.pdf
‘According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the operation to destroy Ukrainian formations in the Kursk Region is still underway.’
Tass
‘President Vladimir Putin appointed his aide and former bodyguard Alexei Dyumin to oversee Russia’s military response to the Ukrainian offensive in the Kursk region. His main qualification appears to have been shooting at a bear with his pistol, and missing…..That’ll do it……
‘As part of my research, I analyzed about 80,000 news articles published by separatist media outlets between 2014 and 2018, many of which repeated familiar tropes: that the Euromaidan revolution as a fascist coup by the CIA, the US as an evil puppet master, and Ukraine as an oppressive, genocidal state.
The objective was to delegitimize Ukraine’s new government and sow division, hoping especially to convince Russian-speaking Ukrainians that there was no future for them in Ukraine. This effort failed: studies show that the Euromaidan revolution and the subsequent events catalyzed a cohesive, civic Ukrainian identity, rather than splitting society apart.’
The Kremlin bought into its own propaganda so much that it believed many Ukrainians would join the invading Russians in battle. The overwhelming lack of support among the very people it professed to come to save should make it realize that Ukrainians have little appetite for returning to the Russian fold.’
The Moscow Times
So let me get this right, if you call the police nasty names then you get an 18 month custodial sentence, but if you violently attack the police, breaking a female police officers nose in the melee, you walk away with a smile? Right. Got it.
Alex from ThinkingSlow is spot on, these are the equivalent of the Communist Russia show trials.
Funny, but depressingly true:
https://x.com/LeoKearse/status/1823494485843841529
Chins had them as well I believe , then public shaming leading to actual executions !
Opinions please. I’ve always considered Unherd a sensible voice, so too Silkie Carlo from Big Brother Watch, but after listening to their recent interview I’ve got major doubts – https://unherd.com/watch-listen/get-ready-for-the-crackdown/
The language Silkie uses only comes from someone who either a) exists solely in a metropolitan bubble b) is a bit thick c) is a limited hangout. I think it’s likely c)
I’d possibly agree with you, if I had the slightest notion of what ‘a limited hangout’ means!
A purveyor of carefully controlled anti-narrative information, whose intention is to appease dissenting voices whilst deflecting from the more sinister bigger picture.
I support Tommy Robinson’s efforts to expose what’s going on but keep an open mind about his situation and motives. In the process I found an interesting interview with Nick Griffin who reminds us how complicated the whole picture is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd2y6cu7H3g&ab_channel=JACK%27D
Yes, the problem is the forever paranoia that we inevitably have to deal with. All deliberate of course… said my paranoid mind!
Listen to this Unherd podcast and jot down the points Ms Carlo makes. Most of these are about the use of facial recognition surveillance. There’s nothing in the language to suggest that she is anything other than genuine. She isn’t some decoy.
If anything, as Dr McGrogan has observed, she may misunderstand the government’s purpose in the use of it.
The language related to the riots is what I was specifically talking about – nothing else – I should have been clearer. The language she uses when she talks about ordinary people is very concerning to me, as it appears to position her inside of elitist thinking.
It seems to me that most, if not all, fighting the cause of free speech are picking their battles very carefully so it’s difficult to know where they really stand.
They are lying
You may or may not like the ‘Geoff Buys Cars’ site but there is a sense in which Geoff epitomises the role of the car in the lives and culture of ordinary people, cars do seem to be a common topic for discussion in pubs and clubs. And so it is worrying to think where this crack-down on free speech is going next. In this video clip (which if you put it on fast play is quite short) Geoff gets quite irate about road pricing plans and boldly states that ‘they’ are lying to you;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2JYPTIs-pY
In discussing these issues and being so bold he is directly challenging some of the sacred cows of net-zero and the surveillance society. With TPTB now embolden following their re-enactment of the Bloody Assizes to deal with the recent riots; how long before the likes of ‘Geoff Buys Cars’ are subject to draconian restrictions on freedom of speech?
Yes Geoff is a comforting side issue away from all the poisonous Governmental rhetoric but in a way equally important !
If anyone has ever met one of the ‘Small Totalitarians’ they will know the accuracy of Pimlico’s description of such a person.
Judge Jeffreys would be perfectly suited to presiding over these current trials. It appears he may have had ‘personal issues’ that can be satisfied only through becoming a Small Totalitarian.
Or there’s the judge in the court scene in Ghostbusters 2 who longs for the return to a more purer age of retribution to be visited upon the insolent peasants who disrespected the state. “You, girlie! You have been found guilty of shouting hurty words at helmeted, body-armoured police officers jangling with metal handcuffs, only protected with tasers, and standing in a shield wall of the sort deployed in the Battle of Hastings! What can you expect but to be burned at the stake!!!”
There was indeed a purer, simpler age. Even as late as the Tudor period the modern tradition of public service, and even the outlook of mechanical impersonal bureaucracy, had not yet come into existence. The agents of government were the servants of their immediate superior. They had none of the 19th or 20th century civil servant’s or police officer’s sense of duty to the public. Even Parliament had no sense of itself as a body that enabled it to become one of the contending elites of the Civil War.
In the 16th century a person could find themselves in danger from their spoken word. While religious affiliation could be recanted, any idle or ill-tempered sally or complaint, a justified criticism of government policy, spoken among acquaintances, could not. These words could be hoarded in an informer’s memory and produced years after by a spiteful enemy of an officious time-server with fatal consequences for the speaker. The 21st century has the recording angel of the internet and still many spiteful persons with ‘personal issues’.
The Bloody Assizes comparison is surely apt: back then there was an actual armed rebellion (against a rubbish government), but history remembers still Jefferys as an agent of injustice, not as a corrector of evils. He certainly had personal “issues” (ie he was evil) – witness that he was as foul-mouthed and vindictive against saintly Richard Baxter as against armed rebels.
But the “rough justice = necessary to make examples” mentality present both then and now seems much less like the strict rule of law, and much more like a powerful but scared establishment making sure it keeps the whip hand over the peasants. James II didn’t do too well in the longer term, nevertheless.
“How the worklessness crisis has made Britain dangerously dependent on foreign labour”
The climate department are telling us we need to move to zero population growth, whilst the rest of the government says we need mass immigration because of zero population growth.
Which department is calculating what will happen to the world economy when cheap immigrants run out under Net Zero?
Are you assuming that the Departments are working together for a common cause?
They won’t run out don’t worry !
A quick look at population distribution and growth around the world will show that, for all intents and purposes, from the perspective of the UK, there is a limitless supply of cheap immigrants.
Free speech is Britain is alive and well…as long as you’re a man in a dress calling for famous women to be raped or inciting rape or gbh of women who object to men in dresses spying on them in changing rooms.
https://www.ft.com/content/237e1e55-401d-4eeb-875b-03fe68f81575
More leaked Russian documents from inside the Kremlin show that Russia has trained its navy to strike targets deep inside Europe using nuclear-capable missiles in the event of a conflict with Nato.
Maps showing targets as distant as the west coast of France and Barrow-in-Furness in the UK were part of a detailed presentation for officers from before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
29 leaked Russian military files show Russia’s plans for extensive strikes across Western Europe, anticipating a conflict with the West extending beyond Nato borders. Prepared between 2008 and 2014, the files include targets for missiles, highlighting the early use of nuclear strikes.
What’s really going on?
Russia has a kill list not just of citizens in the West but of whole cities.
The leaked documents also reveal that Russia has retained the ability to deploy tactical nuclear weapons on surface ships, despite a 1991 agreement with the US to eliminate such capabilities.
Forget negotiating with Putin. Just like the Taliban, Hamas, he will swallow whatever is offered and come back for more, one way or another.
Would you not expect Russia to always have plans thought about like that, just as every major power probably does? Seems sensible surely? Thinking about and executing are entirely different things as we know… ‘if you want peace, prepare for war’
I’m surprised how little the DS has to say about the TIerry Breton letter to Elon Musk regarding his Trump conversation.
To me it struck me as a watershed moment. It was a gambit coordinated between the US, UK and EU states to see how far they could push the throttle on their censorship machine.
Two things are stunning. One, how outrageous the action is. Two, how little outrage it elicited from the population of the US (or EU for that matter), which is also exactly what the gambit was looking to test.
And it isn’t over. The letter is just one move of the gambit.
I can’t describe how pessimistic I am about the future of free speech and therefore our freedom going forward.
The state of the law in this country reminds me of the Hanseatic cities around the Baltic where Germans had their own enclaves (ghettos) where they operated their own rules and the local population lived outside.
From what I have read the locals had to do what the Germans wanted if it affected their way of life or their ability to trade.
It looks like we may get three tiers here: the elites, the non-white non-Brits and the rest of us.
“It looks like we may get three tiers here: the elites, the non-white non-Brits and the rest of us.”
I have to say I have almost reached the same conclusion. There is a possibility that “the rest of us” may also factionalise further – those who believe in old Britain, the Britain of Jerusalem and those woke whiteys who think they should associate with the non-whites simply because they do not believe in a traditional Britain and who hope that a spot of treason might help them towards a marginal elite status.
“Sutton man, 61, who chanted ‘Who the f*** is Allah’ is jailed for 18 months”
“She’s a witch”
“How do you know she’s a witch?”
“Because she looks like one!”
Welcome back to the 15th century!
Interesting video above from Cressida Gethin’s brother.
He has apparently had online threats of his upcoming wedding being disturbed by people trying to block the visitors and having “orange paint strewn everywhere”.
His wedding “should not be inconvenienced because of the actions – the correct actions I may add – of my sister Cressy. Now we have got people flying in from all over the world to my wedding and, if need be, we will have very strong police action because we shall not, and will not, be bullied by thugs who think that, just because they believe in a certain thing, that they can stop other people from moving on with their lives and getting on with their day …”
So he has people flying in from all over the world, which is supposed to be environmentally damaging, he can arrange for a strong police force at his wedding, which is an interesting capability, and he is against “thugs” preventing people from getting on with their day: but is that not exactly what his sister and other ‘environmentalist’ colleagues were/are doing at every opportunity?
Amazing hypocrisy.
Ah yes but this is entirely different – this could impact ‘his’ life… not just those ‘others’
https://www.galwaybeo.ie/news/ireland-news/garda-hunt-over-honesty-box-9479534
Sign of the times?
The changing ethics of our new world!
It’s sad to have to witness this slide into depravity,…we once held all things so dear!
This is a bigger red flag than any riot!
The west is heading for its era of sodom and gomorrah
“Man described by judge as the ‘least involved’ in riot jailed for a year”
“Nail em up I say, nail some sense into em!”
“Terrific race the Starmerites, Terrific!”
Now this is how a coup begins,slowly, creeping, silent..and before you know it, its too late!
https://youtu.be/wie8VsR2XKM?si=BiargU5VCePjoHnC
This how dementia begins – slowly, creeping, silent – but, perhaps mercifully, you never know it.
It’s never too late, as Izaak Walton advised during the English Civil War, to go fishing.
“A commonwealth of communities” – ‘Two-tier’ societies are inevitable, says Ed West”
Not in United sovereignties there not!
Not in places without mass immigration there Not!
A community of communities, especially those overtly ethnic or religious, requires the authorities to act as a colonial government, keeping the peace between these groupings by adjusting their approach accordingly.
In Hungary Orban just states “bugger off, your not coming in!”
I like Orban
Me, too!
“For the first time in its history, Britain is in grip of state terror”
Wah? English civil War against the elites!
First time in history my arse!
The Levellers were suppressed by Cromwell. He opposed the enclosure of the common land but from within the establishment, the minor squirearchy.
A civil war requires two sets of elites. The current disturbances are more of a peasants revolt. Lollardy never altered the beliefs of the ruling elite.
Long before there was the apparatus of the modern state, the Apostle Paul declared that a ruler wasn’t a terror to the law-abiding. But what if the criminal isn’t in terror of the government?
That’s nice, what’s it mean in English?
“Britain’s leaders have blinded themselves to the growing Islamist threat”
Who needs violence? You can take over western countries with tea and biscuits these days! and they are to thick to see it happening,..Beyond terrorism!
Britain’s leaders blind to the Women’s Institute.
And that most subversive of all publications, Nice Cup of tea and a Sit Down. Someone needs to investigate the sinister suppression of the Lincoln Cream.
“China just built the biggest ever offshore oil platform. There is no green energy ‘transition’”
https://www.rechargenews.com/wind/giant-chinese-twin-rotor-floating-wind-turbine-sets-sail/2-1-1691090
Guess which one will be sold to the west (or fools..as they’re known in China) and which one will be kept by China?
(laughing all the way to the bank!)
https://www.gbnews.com/health/sloth-virus-oropouche-virus-symptoms
Here we go again!
So now humans are not quick enough to out run a sloth? Lub a duck!!
Bats live in caves,purposely to keep out of our way, and sloths live in trees in rain forests miles from humanity and yet we seem to be able to contract their diseases?
“Thousands of more pensioners”
Aside from the terrible grammar of main stream reporters, why isnt foreign aid (running at £8.3 BILLION 2023/2024) and immigration/asylum cost (running at 8 million A DAY!) equally as strictly means tested?
https://www.gbnews.com/money/winter-fuel-payment-pensioners-energy-bill-scotland
“Man described by judge as the ‘least involved’ in riot jailed for a year”
Crucial public comments in DM about the harsh sentence of this Army veteran:
— “Hold on a minute— after the Bristol riots, the toppling of the statue, and the attack on the police station, the accused received a jury trial and some (not all) were deemed not guilty. The wording of this story sounds like this man, and therefore presumably the rest, DIDN’T RECEIVE A JURY TRIAL, and were convicted by a judge only following orders from the government. This is very dangerous territory.”
— “Doesn’t everyone have the right to trial by jury? Obviously not. Depending on your political beliefs of course.”
— “No ,they were warned that if pleading Not Guilty, they go before a jury, and if they lose, they have bigger sentences and court costs. So really it’s a lose-lose situation.”
— “Now the country pays him back for his service.”
— “We now have more political prisoners than Russia.”
— “Drunk and disorderly would be the correct charge.”
“Being drunk and disorderly is a summary only offence, so it can only be heard in the Magistrates Court. It is also a NON-IMPRISONABLE OFFENCE, which means the MAXIMUM PENALTY that can be imposed is a FINE. The Court has no lawful power to impose either a Community Order or Prison Sentence for this offence.”