The idiots who, for some reason or other, issued a permit to a bunch of cronies so that thousands of road commuters would suffer the indignities of finding major road arteries shut off due to the banality of letting off fireworks should not be let off as if nothing happened once the inevitable grumbling dies out.
These idiots should be sacked from their jobs, lose their pensions and put into prison for corrupting the civility of our land.
Furthermore, there should be an investigation as to how these permits were issued.