Warren Morgan (Letters, March 9) uses statistics to support his defence of the Government's reliance on speed cameras to penalise motorists and raise stealth taxes to fund the Chancellor's out-of-control spending habit.

I prefer to rely on my contact with the people I meet, whether socially, professionally or in the community.

Smug though Councillor Morgan is in claiming never to break the speed limit (or at least never to get caught), I am surprised that a Labour spokesman should be so proud to claim he drives a car "all the time" when his party's policy is to get people on to public transport.

Another case of one rule for them, another for us?

That aside, he fails to deny that ministers have used cameras to raise funds, nor has he denied that cameras are no longer only erected in dangerous stretches of road - as was the Government's original policy.

Nobody in their right mind endorses speeding but it seems odd that Coun Morgan chooses to support the nanny state which his party is turning this country into.

-David Gold, Kemp Town