Johnzx,
We'll have to agree to disagree on this one - I'm more with SJG.
You do not find the Police in Spain inundating the countryside with speed cameras: they do not erect the few that they do have 25 metres up a Salida from an Autovia, and they do not artfully/deviously site them behind huge road signs, so you cannot see them.
The speed cameras in UK are there simply and solely to raise money: the few that one sees in Spain are there to cut speed (fat chance they have with the Spanish mentality of driving) and they give plenty of advance warning of them. If I were to get done, I'd have to say "it's a fair cop".
Granted, the Mobile Patrols of the GC reguarly zero in on motorists, but as the spanish creed (as a very good Spanish friend of mine told me) is that "one must always be in front of the car in front". they risk it, and they get done for it.. They're all wannabe Fangio's.
With all the technology available to the UK Traffic Police, they but scratch the surface of offenders: Ye Gods, I've seen lighter sentences handed down to murderers, than to some otherwise law-abiding Brit who simply reneged on paying a highly-disputable parking fine, or was a few days out of time with an MOT..
Tou want to see the full weight of the law come into play, then try not paying one's Council Tax in UK - you'll be down the Steps for Five. The Spanish are much more enlightened about the frailiy of human nature.
It's horses for courses, and as I've opted for the caballos espanol, I have to accept their little idiosyncrases.