'"...It appears that every year a few thousand totally unimportant persons are killed on the roads, and that lunatic Gunnersbury, supported by some squeamish asses on the Labour benches, brought in a bill to abolish all motor transport. These Socialists put a perfectly exaggerated value on human life, you know. Ridiculous. As I said in my speech, what on earth does it matter if a few people are killed, we're not at war are we? We don't need 'em for cannon fodder? Then what earthly good do they do to anybody? Kill 'em on the roads by all means, they come off the unemployment figures and nobody is likely to be any the wiser."'
from Wigs on the Green by Nancy Mitford (Chapter 12)
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