Let's look at a list* of some of the main things have been made illegal (or might be made illegal) for no good reason (whether such a ban is actually enforced or not in practice is by-the-by) and the two most stupid traffic regulations:

My local, very busy, city suburb sub Post Office is down for closure as part of the Post Office "Network Change Programme". Already the anti-closure petition has been signed by 750, probably more people than usually vote in local elections in the post-office's locality. The LibDems are making the most of this. Surely electorally this is a bad news nationally?

On the 2nd December four men raided my local post office, and attempted to steal the contents of the safe. Knowing the poverty of the village at this would have been about £3.20 and half-a-dozen stamps. Fortunately no one was hurt and raid itself was unsuccessful, although the robbers got away. But it did bring to local media prominence another problem that rural post offices face.