Amazing changeable weather we’re having at the moment, I wondered if I should start to think about what plants I wanted to grow in the garden this year and then out of of the East, blew the cold wind chilling away any ideas of that plan for the time being.
Again, Southern England is paralysed by a snowstorm, granted there were some exceptional circumstances in certain parts of the region. But why has Wokingham district closed all of its schools for the second day on the trot with less than 3 inches of snow on the ground!
I’m not going to go down that old route of ‘when I lived in a shoe box’ but for heavens sake, England has become a nation of incompetents.
How is it, as we saw in a TV news story, London bus drivers playing with snowballs in the street, yet their buses sat idly by in their garage as people struggled to work without any buses to use. Could they not have grabbed some shovels/brushes and cleared the snow so that the buses could be got out of the their garage? Is it because their union would not let them do this? I bet it was.
What about the TV news story that showed rail commuters falling down Waterloo station steps due to ice on them. Why had station staff not been out there and cleared the steps of snow and ice. Was it because their union would not let them do this? I bet it was.
It seems to me that a combination of over enthusiastic Health & Safety interference, combined with absolutely bad management/union interference, a seemingly lazy approach to care/responsibility and a growing incompetence has led us into this laughable situation.
I still have grave doubts that his country thinks it can host the 2012 Olympics successfully. If union lead strikes don’t bring the transport system to a halt, it could be another summer heat wave of 30 degrees that causes us all to stay at home with schools shut and public transport operators demanding personal air-conditioning units for their staff from public funds.
What a mess we are in!
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