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Studies in Sweden suggest that you're wrong. Sweden used to have the toughest licensing laws in Western Europe and consequently extremely low drink-related deaths on the roads. As the licensing laws have been relaxed the number of drink-related deaths has increased and acutely so in the younger...

I'm not sure that's a valid reason for having a 2 pint limit. If society thinks drink driving is so unacceptable that it needs a lower limit then country pubs will have to close. We implemented a ban on fox hunting, knowing full well that a lot of people could lose their jobs. Successive...

It may be one of the highest but it's still v.low and for a lot of people a 20mg or 35mg level could well equate to the same thing - anything over a pint so it may be a moot point whether it's 20, 25 or 35. Also, that table of deaths attributable to drink suggests that the UK doesn't have a...

If you think a car in front is a drink-driver then you need to call the police there and then. It could save a life.

Apparently Gibson has previous for drink-driving. This was a couple of years ago: The Everton midfielder Darron Gibson has pleaded guilty to hitting a cyclist while drink-driving and then fleeing the scene. Gibson, 27, was behind the wheel of his black Nissan Skyline GT-R Nismo when it ploughed...

Ban them from pubs?

I might be wrong here but if it's the case that we don't enforce it as strictly or as often then we'd get disproportionately higher deaths from drink-drivers compared to other countries, wouldn't we? The figures don't back that up though...

Genuine question - does that comment mean that you think it is not enforced as rigorously as it could be? I would say that it's one of the things that the British police are absolutely determined to enforce and with a zero tolerance approach.

I've every sympathy with anyone with mental health issues. I've zero sympathy with anyone using that as an excuse for drink-driving. If he uses that as an excuse then he does a disservice to everyone else with MH problems and damages all the hard work trying to get mental health problems better...

Trouble is that Ant (or Dec) and Darren Gibson are not exactly older generation though. I'd agree with your general argument though.

Ant (or Dec) arrested for drink driving after hitting another car and hospitalising a young child in it. Footballer Darren Gibson writing off his Merc at the weekend and all those other selfish c-words who get into their car after a skinful every day of the week. I'm not a big one for grassing...