A few points here, just for discussion.

1. Although I would not be pleased at having to give up the two pints I drink over a three hour period, when driving myself to a folk session, I have only THAT selfish basis for wishing to see the limit unchanged. This being the case I would not raise ANY objections if it were reduced.

2. Zero alcohol legislation immediately criminalises anyone who drives a motor vehicle. Nobody can guarantee to be alcohol free, even teetotallers. Certain processes within the human metabolism will, from time to time make every one of us test positive for alcohol, and you can't tell for sure that it WASN'T the remains of a nip of brandy.

3. Nobody has, to my knowledge, bothered to apply statistical analysis to the following question:-

In what percentage of the accidents involving drivers who were over the proposed NEW limit were those accidents caused by the other, alcohol free, party? Given that there were only eighteen, that should not be difficult to answer, but my guess is that the question was never asked. One whiff of alcohol = instantly guilty.

All of these are to my mind worth discussion, when deciding on the necessity for a change.

Don T.