WHAT a great pity that when she was a young woman Swindon Labour MP Anne Snelgrove hadn’t met and married the so dubbed ‘mad mullah of the traffic taliban’, Richard Brunstrom, the Chief Constable of North Wales. These two, who some may feel appear to gain gratification from removing money from motorists and inflicting misery on the people they are paid to serve, could have purchased a piece of land and filled it with speed cameras. They would then have been able to perform daily adoration rituals to these yellow tax collecting devices with Anne washing them and Richard putting the polish on, followed by their bursting into song.

“All cameras yellow and beautiful, they make our people cry, we love to help old Gordon, bleed the people dry.”

Well done Coun Peter Greenhalgh and his associates at Swindon Borough Council for attempting to improve road safety by spending our money more wisely. Everyone knows where the speed cameras are and slow down accordingly. They are no more than tax gathering machines and are not worth the annual costs to the local council tax payers.

Keep looking after the people Mr Greenhalgh and leave Anne Snelgrove to go shopping. After all our MPs are reputed to be good at that.

PETER WOOLWAY Gainsborough Avenue Wootton Bassett Swindon