New Forest MP Sir Desmond Swayne suggesting in House of Commons on 1st February 2024 that flytippers be 'garrotted with their own intestines'
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00:00 also ring-fencing the ability for the council to reinvest that money in prosecutions and
00:04 cleaning up their streets. It's disappointing to see from the stats that Labour councils
00:09 are not utilising those powers that we are giving them as much as they should do.
00:13 Sir Desmond Swayne.
00:15 The penalties are insufficient. If offenders were garrotted with their own intestines,
00:20 there'd be fewer of them.
00:26 It's important, Mr Speaker, that councils have the ability to utilise the increased
00:32 penalty fines that we are giving them to £1,000 and we want as a government to see those penalties
00:37 being utilised so that we can drive down fly-tipping in all council areas.