Stupid stupid politicians

Today's ignominious publicity award goes to Michael Fitzgerald, a county councillor from County Tipperary in Ireland.

For some reason known only to him, he took the opportunity afforded to him by a local radio station to say something meaningful to the listeners and regaled them with this pearl of wisdom:

"I have neighbours, and I have friends, and I have people that go to the pub every single night of the week and they drink three or four pints and they go home, they drive home in the jeep or in the car. They are not drunk they are well able to take it."

Yep. Michael is firm in his belief that it's ok to have a few pints and then drive home if you are an experienced drinker.. I'm paraphrasing but that's pretty much the gist of what he was saying. By the way he himself is a convicted drink driver.

He then went on to bemoan the way people are caught drink driving when just a short distance from their homes.

Check out Al's post on this a short while ago, on the shocking statistic that is Irish road deaths. There's even a few idiots doing the rounds broadcasting to anyone that will listen that there are countries in the EU with much higher road death totals per year than us. Great. We can all relax so. Everyone seems to have a desire to address the problem but we just can't seem to make any inroads. The Irish blogosphere has a whole section devoted to people writing about this awful problem.

And then you have this fool mouthing off irresponsibly about how it's OK for some people to have a few pints and then get behind the wheel.

Put some people in front of a microphone or camera and they just can't help but ease the old foot into the mouth.