Drink-drive?

[tomstevenson]

Like everywhere else, there is a strong move to reduce the legal limit of alcohol in the bloodstream in the UK. Currently we're on 80 mg per 100ml and the government's stated policy is reduce this to 50 (blood), which is the same as France, and many neo-prohibitionists see this as a halfway step to zero. When will politicians learn that this hurts the majority of ordinary citizens, who do not drink to excess, but will never deter the drunk drivers who are the real menace? Whatever the limit, those bastards will always ignore it: it's the punishment that has to be stricter. The world would be a much healthier, happier and less dangerous place if the legal level went up to 120ml and drunk drivers got 20 years in a cell where they were deprived of all contact with other human beings, even their warders!

[This message has been edited by tomstevenson (edited 01-15-99).]