{"id":10341,"date":"2012-09-07T00:32:30","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T23:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=10341"},"modified":"2012-09-07T00:32:30","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T23:32:30","slug":"scotland-to-introduce-lower-drink-drive-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=10341","title":{"rendered":"Scotland To Introduce Lower Drink-Drive Limit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 180px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 180\/240;margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; float: left;\" title=\"A Small Whisky\" alt=\"A Small Whisky\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/whisky.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" align=\"left\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/>An <a title=\"Scotland to tighten drink-drive limit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/one-for-the-road-not-in-scotland-as-alex-salmond-cuts-drinkdrive-limit-8107101.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interesting story from Scotland<\/a>. According to this report they are going to introduce a lower drink-drive limit to move into line with Europe. The current limit is the same as the rest of the UK (80mg\/100ml blood), but they are likely to drop it to 50mg\/100ml blood.<\/p>\n<p>Taken at face value, the move seems to press all the right buttons. However, Scotland already has a disproportionate number of drink drivers, and all that this change would do would be to make even more of them lawbreakers.<\/p>\n<p>But you are really only breaking the law if you get caught &#8211; and enforcement is going to be a real headache.<\/p>\n<p>There is also the suggestion that the change has other political forces driving it, and making the limit the same as in Europe &#8211; but different from what it is in England &#8211; is a gesture of independence by the SNP and its separatist agenda. It\u2019s designed to break Scotland further away from the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The SNP is already trying to set a minimum price for alcohol. The Scottish Justice Secretary &#8211; via a spokesman &#8211; demonstrates a na\u00efvet\u00e9 that would be quite cute if it wasn\u2019t so misguided:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All the evidence shows that alcohol-related road deaths drop dramatically where the limit has been reduced to more accurately reflect when the effects of drinking impairs driving.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, yes. If you enforce it so that people follow it. But changing the limit will have absolutely no effect on road deaths by itself.<\/p>\n<p>The minister\u2019s na\u00efvet\u00e9 was matched only by Brake &#8211; the anti-drink-drive champions &#8211;\u00a0 who welcomed the change, and added that it was a start on the way to lowering the limit even further.<\/p>\n<p>You have to eliminate the pissheads before you can move the goalposts.<\/p>\n<p>(Note: The report is inaccurate when it refers to how much beer the limits approximate to.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting story from Scotland. According to this report they are going to introduce a lower drink-drive limit to move into line with Europe. The current limit is the same as the rest of the UK (80mg\/100ml blood), but they are likely to drop it to 50mg\/100ml blood. Taken at face value, the move seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}