Careful Steve, your chips are showing :-) It's because it's so hard to catch speeders that the ANPR cameras were installed - without them, no-one would be caught. And because of them, your plate has been cloned.

Chemists call it le Chatelier's Principle - disturb a system in equilibrium and it responds to restore the balance. In human terms, what I have described above. Cops responded, then so did the speeders.

Well, the only time I've ever been nicked for speeding was by a real copper back in the 90s (I saw him but he got me with VASCAR whilst braking) luckily the speed was "only" 93.7mph (3 points and a £60 fine) (94+ was a court appearance) done hundreds of thousands of miles since - and haven't been caught again despite plenty of speeding (where I deem it safe to do so.)

I changed my plate as soon as the first NIP hit the door mat a year ago - that means an untaxed, uninsured, unregistered number plate has been flyng about unabated since and all "the law" can do is illegaly persecute the previous owner of the 'plate. Is this the sort of service the law abiding motorist hands £40bn+ pa over for?

ANPR fines - "circumstantial evidence" - if you mean fines as a result of speed camera use, then it's certainly not circumstantial evidence. Unless the camera has not been properly calibrated, it's good hard evidence.

You want to go to court to challenge the levy of VAT specifically on fuel duty (isn't VAT levied on the whole thing, which of course includes duty?)? Best of luck with that. Most rational people would rate your chance of success as zero. Mind you, the lawyers would be happy with you for pouring money into a hopeless cause.

All of the above, together with your statement in another post that you were once recorded driving at just under 94 mph and that you do "plenty of speeding (where I deem it safe to do so)" suggests that you have a real problem with authority and with obeying certain parts of motoring law.

The circumstantial bit is relying on a numberplate that may be yours as the proof to advance a prosecution - there's no proof it's you until you admit to the offence (convictions based on confessions as the only source of evidence against you are illegal for obvious reasons), ANPR prosecutions are on shaky ground because they are made on the assumption that numberplate cloning does not happen when numberplate cloning is rife.

Sure, okay, the government should refund the VAT charged on the duty part of the cost of fuel.

Driving past a school with a posted limit of 30mph at, say, 20mph because the number of children about would mean it's prudent to slow down doesn't earn me any brownie points or a refund on my past speeding ticket - it's called me using my judgment, posted limits can be too high just as they can be too low - obeying a blanket speed limit in good conditions on a deserted motorway at 4 in the morning doesn't make you a good driver nor does going past a busy school at 30mph – you’re not breaking the law in the later example but you ARE driving badly. Good driving means observing what's going on around you and driving accordingly.