Poor councillors. Are they blind to the fact that this is not a tax to everyone, just to those who chose to break the law. I myself have been caught by a speed camera once, but dutifully payed the fine, knowing that only I was to blame for the ticket. I am sure these people are offenders themselves, and just looking for ways to spread the cost to more road users, as I am sure that this sort of thing will lead to road taxes, or other means of stealth tax, going up again to cover the lost revenue from the cameras. Are you one of the lawbreakers by any chance?

Unfortunately I fear it is yourself who may be blind to the simple economics that the council is concerned with.

£400,000 of Swindon taxpayers money spent each year to collect fines that go to the Treasury = another tax.

If the money was going back to the taxpayers of Swindon, to be used to make Swindon a happier safer place I doubt these councillors would have a problem, but to see it all just disappear in the Treasury coffers is the point at issue here.

I doubt very much that the cameras will be removed, few ever are, even if they fail to conform to Home Office location rules, but the Councillors are saying they will no longer fund them from the good taxpayers of Swindon unless the fines come back to them.