[Kerry]

The simple answer is the drink driving limit should be zero. Why anyone would drink a drop and then drive is beyond me. I certainly know I am affected by one glass of wine yet it seems thats acceptable. (I don't drive)

The thing is I watch a lot of fly on the wall documentories about policing and am sick to death of drink drivers getting nothing more than a £60 fine and 3 points, even if triple, quadruple or totally off their face drunk. I walk the streets. My family walks the streets. If a pissed driver wants to wrap his or herself around a lampost then fair play to them but don't risk my loved ones lives if they were to walk past said lampost at the same time.

[Omen]

If it carried a jail term, even only a couple of weeks, there'd be a lot less of it.

The real scandal of it is how expensive lawyers regularly beat it over tiny technicalities. One such lawyer was boasting on telly a while back how he does it, basically he brow beats the police officer who made the arrest, making a huge deal out of a minor one and calling all the eidence into question on the basis of one minor detail. A bit like Alistair Campbell and the fuss over the BBC.