BRITISH OFFICIALS ARE NOT ABOUT TO FINE TICKET SCALPERS London (UPI) - British government oiciais have rejected a demand that penalties be placed on ticket scalpers who are reportedly selling Wimbledon tennis championship tickets at more than 3.500% of face value. One Conservative parliamentarian even praised the scalpers for practicing "free market economics, " the backbone of Prime Minister Thatcher's economic policies. " if the upper-class twits who run the Ail-England Tennis Club sell their tickets at below market prices, they can hardly grumble. All the people who we insult by calling them 'touts' are setting up a market. " Scalpers are reportedly selling $100 tickets (official price) for the nal match at Wimbledon $2 700. Ticket scalping is not illegal in Britain