Brakeless riding in Birmingham?

Brakes don't allow you to go faster, you can go as fast as someone who rides brakeless
On a track maybe. But on the road, no. You can safely go faster on the road if you have two brakes because with two brakes your stopping distance is considerably lower. If you want to argue with that I suggest you enter a road race on your brakeless fixie and try to ride as fast as everyone else. I guarantee you will be slowing down for corners much earlier than all the other riders, but if you want to make a fool of yourself trying to prove me wrong then go ahead.

....Make up your own mind about it, its your life.

What a perfect example. This is the kind of mentality that drink drivers use to justify getting behind the wheel pissed.

Yeah, it's your life, but if you take your head out of your arse you'll notice that there are other people around when you're cycling on the road. Do you not think of anyone else but yourself? Do you not think it's selfish not to consider that you're putting other people at a greater risk by effectively riding with only a back brake (and, for that matter, not a very effective one).

You might be a lucky person and you might never hit anyone, you might never have to do an emergency stop to prevent colliding with some div who pushes their baby in a pram into the road from behind a transit van without looking, or some numpty in a car who pulls out of a junction in front of you because they didn't see you as you're spinning out at 39mph down a steep hill. If you are that lucky then I envy you. You're obviously invincible and superior to all other bike riders. But it's a no-brainer that being able to stop as quickly as possible is a good thing, is it not? Without wanting this to sound like a boring lecture, a front brake could be the difference between stopping in time, and ending yours or someone else's life... I hope you never get to find out.