I suppose it had to happen. The Government is frantically unveiling a series of eye-catching initiatives, designed, I suppose, to draw our attention away from its dismal economic record and its manifest failure to support our troops.
And guess what it’s going to do? Yes, I’m sure you guessed correctly. It is going to lower the drink driving limit from 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood, down to 50mg. That is approximately one glass of wine.
It’s an easy one for the politicians, this. They will wheel out the odd grieving mother whose child has been killed by a drunk, and vilify anyone who criticises the idea. Of course the political class get free taxis and live in London. In the countryside, where you need a car, it will herald a new reign of terror.
And it’s an odd law. Firstly, you cannot know whether you are breaking it (you can’t own one of those Lionometer machines). Secondly, the purpose of the law, to punish dangerous driving, is not met by the detail of the law: you might be a better driver after a bottle of wine than another person is stone cold sober. And lastly, you have to incriminate yourself, by blowing into the machine, against every precept of natural justice.
This law was brought in by Barbara Castle, a socialist busybody who couldn’t drive, and is now being made more draconian by a socialist Prime Minister who can’t drive either. Thanks.
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