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Why I’ve gone right off the police

20 March 2021

9:00 AM

20 March 2021

9:00 AM

‘Welcome to Victims First. Please leave your name and number and we will return your call. Beeeeeeeeeeeep!’

I had rung the number given to me by the police to pay my fixed penalty fine for not having an MOT.

This £100 I was trying to pay was coming out of an increasingly tight household budget, incidentally, so I decided that the fairest thing to do was to claw it back from the state.

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