Skid marks near cameras? Blame the cameras! Not the drivers for going too fast in the first place. Oh no. Car means no crime. If the last government had removed a camera from a speeding blackspot like you demand in such a shrill way, people (not least on this forum) would have been queuing up to say they were soft on crime and that they were doing it to massage the figures! Ridiculous.

The fact is that drivers in this country are too arrogant to slow down, because I'M IN A CAR. There's a horrible macho driving culture that really needs to get out of its teenage years, stop watching Jeremy Clarkson and grow up.

In no other area would an enforcement measure that catches people breaking the law and deters them from doing so be under pressure for removal. But motorists are different, somehow. I learnt to drive quite late in life (37) last year. It was a bit of an experience. The only thing that makes drivers slow down to anything like the speed limit is a camera. It is lunacy to suggest that where a camera catches people it is failing.