Like where are they even gonna get the money to pay the fine from? They might as well just bring back debtor’s prisons for how they treat the poor!

That's the whole idea.That's the whole idea.

Good that way they can work off their debt to society /s

They end up with criminal records for not paying or appearing in court, and are rendered permanent street outcasts because they can't pass background/credit checks to get homes and jobs.

That's been the goal all along.

Yeah, exactly, I suspect it was being introduced to threaten them with prison and to then just shunt them off to be another local authority's "problem"

And biden raised his fists in anger and asks the heavans, "are there no workhouses for these layabouts?!"

That’s how it used work. If you read the second half of Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London he spent a lot of time moving from one “spike” (homeless hostel) to another as the law of the land was that if you were homeless you needed to be moving “to find work”. In reality it was a closed loop