"However the court has given him a ban of I think 16 or 18 months so he will lose his NCB and have to start from scratch in that regard"

Earlier this year I had not had insurance cover for 2yrs 2months but still managed to find an insurance co who accepted/protected my 9yrs NCB ,at a decent premium.Prior to this I also rang Tesco Car Ins and was told that had I been insured with them at the time my insurance lapsed then they would have carried my 9yrs NCB,even after two years with no ins.Most Ins companies told me the cut-off was 2 years for lapsed ins to affect NCB with them.People kept telling me not to go over the two year mark without insurance but didn`t bother to keep tags on time and blew it by 2 months.

The MP in question will have no problems whatsoever getting insured when he`s allowed to hit the road again.Most of that ilk love to be chauffeured around like Lord Muck anyhow.

It may well be the "law of the land" but in any other respect than for a motoring offence I suspect that the human rights lot would have "shredded" this apparent anomoly.

Now if one were "stocious" such that a reasonable observer could conclude that one was definately over the limit, perhaps Ok.

However if one were marginally intoxicated and refused to give a breath or blood sample.

How stands justice there?

cheers

M

They are getting very serious about lowering the drink limit.

HJ