The Country Grinds To A Halt Because Of A State That Promises To Solve 'Winter'

As the usual panic sets it because we have a few inches of snow, it is symptomatic of how the welfare state has enfeebled the country. Somebody must be found to take responsibility for this thing called Winter.

It started last night, the old were told not to panic over heating their homes because the Government are going to give them a couple of extra quid, so thats a relief. Don't travel unless you have to, people have to get to work to earn money to pay their mortgage,their bills, the fifty per cent that they have to hand over to the State every month/week. So of course people have to travel.

Why has 'somebody' not done 'something'about the snow ! What like passing legislation against it ? Why have the gritters not been at work since June, because its pointless putting grit on deep snow, plus our local authorities are no longer allowed to have ad hoc arrangements with local construction companies to clear the snow, that is the job of forty six Quangos now. Plus we as a nation have decided that keeping the roads clear and having adequate volunteer emergecy services is not as important as paying hundreds of thousands of public servants doling out benefits to the raft of claimants who never have struggled to get to work.

I have just taken a call from a colleague who wanted to talk to somebody sane. All the staff at her place of work are kicking off that the 'management' should have done something about the snow- like what ? Its just not safe under Health and Safety Rules y'know. Emails are flying how unfair it is. Somebody driving in the company carpark collided with another car. A straight forward case of not driving with regard to the prevailing conditions. This joker wants compensation.

I have given lifts to people to get to work in my politically incorrect 4x4, two weeks ago one of these people was tut tutting about me personally causing 'global warming'.

Its called Winter, Its nobody's fault, the Government cannot legislate against it, you cannot get immediate compensation via insurancescams.com. It is in circumstances like this you truly see the mindset that has been warped by sixty years of welfarism.

Just pick up a shovel, go and clear some snow and stop waiting for the 'State' to sort it out for you.

First published on the Economic Voice

UPDATE

Listening to 'Farming Today' this morning, an East Anglian Farmer said twenty years ago he would be out with his tractor and snow plough keeping the rural roads open for his and neighbours benefit. He was told along with all other farmers to 'stop it' because they were using red diesel to power their tractors on the public highway and it was illegal.

Direct evidence that jobsworths and the obsession with taxing everything has lead to the reduction in voluntary emergency capacity.

The State can do it all except it can't, it just pretends it can to justify taking our money.