Snowy Third World UK

Having spent a lovely day playing in the snow with my wife and daughter, I settled down to watch the news last night. Lots of fun and happiness reported but there was a slight undertone that someone was in some way culpable for mine and everyone else's day of fun. News readers were probing at local authority spokesmen who unflinchingly defended the fact that they had done everything humanly possible to keep the UK moving....yeah right!!!

What made me mad however was a couple of interviews that were shown in which a handful of neanderthals ranted that the UK was like a third world country because it had failed to cope with the snow. It was somehow a disgrace and an insult to these people that a nation which gets real proper heavy snow as regularly as it produces honest politicians, had somehow prevented them from doing what they had planned to do that day. Ironically these people were shown on the news program just before reports that the Children's Society had concluded that children were suffering because of the overpowering selfishness of adults. The irritating thing about the kind of person who complains openly about this kind of thing is that they are also the kind of person who petulantly complains about their council tax and would probably scream blue murder if it was ever suggested that local councils raised their tax in order to be fully prepared in the future.

My solution is simple. If it is truly the opinion of these people that the UK is in fact like a third world country, then perhaps along with Muslim and Jewish fundamentalists, these people should be sent to Gaza on a long term exchange program with displaced families to experience how other third world nations cope with their particular problems. Once their horizons have been broadened and they have come up with a solution that would solve the problem of snow without any increase of tax then they should be allowed back to enlighten us all. Until then may they remain in sunnier climates lest the snow should ever dare to interrupt their existence again.