Wearisome

The Gorse Fox has been reading "Honest John" in today's Telegraph. He was amused at the following exchange:

Using the Freedom of Information Act, I have discovered that more than 65 per cent of speeding tickets are issued to those aged over 35. Meanwhile, the under 35s are involved in 60 per cent of road accidents. Clearly, “safety” cameras are not hitting the target group most likely to suffer death and injury on our roads.

wrote the reader. And Honest John responded with

Someone has to pay for the upkeep of speed-camera partnerships and for some of our wonderful Government's mistakes. How else could it be done without obvious income-tax increases?

and more tellingly

There is evidence that speed-camera policy has increased the UK road death rate, but the Government refuses to sponsor independent research into this, or indeed carry out its own research in case a mole spills the beans before it can put a spin on the results.

Oooh, ooh, does GF detect a touch of cynicism in HJ's reply? Surely that couldn't be true, could it?
GF would lay money on it.