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Farage condemns new drink drive plans
Monday, 15th March 2010
A death sentence has been passed on every public house in the country, according to UKIP’s straight talking Nigel Farage MEP.
The prophecy of doom for pubs, already hit hard by the smoking ban, came after it emerged a government review will recommend a ‘one drink and you’re banned’ policy to drink driving.
Under the new rules, the limit would be reduced from its current level, where a man can drink up to two pints of normal strength lager and still be permitted to drive, to 50mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood, meaning the average man would be over the limit after one pint, and a woman, after just half-a-pint.
“This proposal will be the death of every pub in the country with no particular benefit.” Said Mr Farage on hearing of the proposal: “It’s the Nanny State gone mad.”
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