No excuse for snow chaos
THE big freeze continues to grip the nation, with the transport network reduced to paralysis.
Yet the plummeting temperatures cannot disguise the reality that Britain has been hopelessly ill-prepared, thanks to
insufficient equipment and salt.
While the rest of Europe seems to cope with adverse weather, we succumb to despairing gridlock at the first snowfalls. Airports are closed. Train schedules collapse. Roads appear not to have been gritted.
All too predictably the Government’s response has been warm words and the promise of yet another enquiry. Perhaps the authorities have been lulled into complacency by all the fashionable talk about global warming.
It is time to wake up. Even in these straitened financial times, greater priority must be given to effective preparations