Er, let's think...
Well, I have to write a new risk assessment everytime I buy a box of paperclips, so the millions we spend on health and safety legislation and enforcement has been a fantastic use of tax payers money. No one has died in any of my offices this year from a paperclip related injury.
Oh and the state spend tens of millions on adverts telling me not to drink too much and to point out that smoking is not good for you and that fireworks will explode. Despite selling all three of these items to anyone at anytime, usually all at once.
Also i was fined £60 for doing 42mph in a 40 zone on an industrial estate, so portable speed cameras are a pretty good investment by the government. Except for the residential road outside of my house where five youngsters where killed in as many years by cars doing 70mph, (no speed camera there).
Lots of police around though, although i was told to investigate the break in next door myself as the police wouldn't come out unless i could see the signs of forced entry (behind a 15 foot wall).
Oh wait they did come out, but 24 hours later at 3am(!!!) to investigate the (holidaying) neighbours alarm going off. When I pointed out that i'd called them 24hrs earlier they told me they said they must have been busy.
