P**s off, Fine Gael

The Government confirmed yesterday that qualified drivers accompanying learner drivers cannot be breathalysed, and there are no plans to introduce such a move. Fine Gael’s reponse was immediate. Their spokesman Fergus O’Dowd said:

“I plan to raise this with the Minister because quite clearly if the accompanying driver is p****d and not fit to drive themselves they cannot be properly supervising the learner driver. It is ridiculous.”

This is opposition for opposition’s sake. If a couple go out, have a few drinks and get their teenage son or daughter to collect them and drive them home, this is something to be encouraged. What penalty would O’Dowd impose on them? Losing their own licence? Might as well risk driving themselves, so.

Big Brother Blog (5)

So Jen will face Rex on Friday. My guess is that Jen will go. She is the perfect example of what the pressures of the BB House can do to you – though sweet and charming at the start, she has become a total moan, and the focus of most of the trouble in the house.

If she does go, it may be the making of Bex. She has been sucked into the unhappiness, and is starting to behave quite alarmingly. If Jen goes and the others welcome Bex back into the fold, she could return to being the funny person she was at the beginning.

In fairness to Jennifer, she did nominate Rachel and Kat. She said their happiness was both annoying and fake, and followed that through in the nominations process, though she must know that nominating Kat will not make her popular with the public.

Luke, though, who was sent to jail for hinting to Bex that she should nominate the happy couple, was smart enough to make two safe nominations, keeping himself in with what he still reckons is his adoring public (he’s thankfully wrong – two girls who told me last week that they wanted him to win are disliking him more and more as the days go by).

As for Dale – Christ, man, you don’t like Stuart, you don’t like the situation with the three of you, for God’s sake nominate him.

We don’t like him either – it could solve all your problems.