Referring to the new Management of Offenders and Sentencing Bill the Telegraph notes something that I had not.

The maximum fine that magistrates can impose will triple to £15,000,
but those with little or no visible earnings (most professional
criminals, for example) will pay a fraction of this.

Of course, slaps forehead. The current fine for manufacturing and selling, just as a trivial example, apricot jam laced with essential oils of citrus, is 5,000 quid. This can now be tripled for someone with a high declared and legally recorded income. Like, for example, the sort of middling wealthy entrepreneur who might think about launching a new comestible or compote.

Our neighbourhood plasma TV recycler (also known as burglar) has no recorded income other than the dole and so wil not have his fine tripled. Quite marvellous don’t you think, a massive step forward in social justice.