Change the language, change the reality: that’s the theory, because it’s cheaper. Thanet District Council, which administers a somewhat unlovely part of Kent, has imposed a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) which means you can be fined £100 for swearing in the street. So, if, for instance, you want to express the idea that Thanet is “&h75!” you won’t be able to say that within the hearing of a council officer without being fined the equivalent of half your monthly council tax.
I wonder if you can accumulate multiple fines in one interaction. I wonder if you are fined for each individual profanity, or each sentence containing multiple profanities. I wonder if there is a cap, and if there are parts of Thanet — pub gardens, council offices? — which are potentially as lucrative as the infamous Hammersmith bus lane that accounted for 80 per cent of all bus lane fines in the borough.
