Hamstrung by endless regulation

LETTER: A recent edition of the Shropshire Star showed a Chevrolet truck in 1929, the year of the

Wall Street crash, having climbed to the top of The Wrekin. What an achievement!

Today, anyone driving off road would be arrested for "environmental vandalism" instead of given a beer for their driving skill.

Maybe we should take a hint from the past and put the clock back, abolish all the planning, environmental protection, pollution, animal welfare, sex, race, gender and all other laws that hamstring humanity?

After the Great Depression, the world quickly recovered in the 1930s, simply because there were few regulations to hold people back. Homes were built without planning permits, workers were cheap because there were no minimum wage acts and no health and safety regulation. Free enterprise prospered.

So how about abolishing speed limits on motorways, maximum weights, driving hours, MoTs and tyre laws?

W F Kerswell

Picklescott