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There is a short piece on Radio 4's "Today in Parliament" about speed cameras. Greg Knight (Cons) makes a stand against the speed camera strategy, and is answered by Alistair Darling (Lab).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/progs/listenagain.shtml
(find "Today in Parliament", it's about halfway through today's programme).

Personally I thought that Knight would have been more successful challenging the dodgy statistical methods used to justify the use of speed cameras, indeed, Knight had these misleading statistics thrown at him as a defense by Darling - something along the lines of "but speed cameras reduce casualties by bla-bla-percent, and this has been proved, so our use of speed cameras is justified etc. etc....".

Good to see the issue raised at such a high level, however it leaves me a bit with the feeling that this was a (partially) squandered opportunity.
Still, I give Greg Knight 6/10 for effort. Perhaps SafeSpeed should provide him with some good ammunition for the next skirmish