England is drowning in snow and for that it is the laughing stock of Europe. Foreigners just cant understand the mass of snow that has gridlocked the country. If they could only watch English television they could appreciate the hopeless battle the English are involved in; and losing.
An ITV program traced a poor couple completely snowed in. Basically stuck in their house, they cant get anything from food to milk for their baby; and the husband has an urgent meeting elsewhere the next day and cant leave. Its horrific, and really nothing to laugh about.
The camera followed the reporter (who just happens to be the sister of the lady who cant get to the shops). She walked up a small cul-de-sac where a dusting of snow could be seen on the road surface. The house she was aiming at was at the end of the cul-de-sac. To make the horror of the snow crippling the couples life more understandable, she put down a bottle of milk into the snow. She carefully chose a corner where the wind had driven most of the snow. The horror became very real at that point, the snow actually covered the bottom of bottle, and it must have been at least an inch high.
Before entering the house to interview the afflicted couple she detoured to the parking area behind the house. It was clear that they would not use their cars for days; the snow on the cars and on the parking was at least three inches high. It would take days of warm weather to melt it off the cars and off the surface. With such insurmountable impediments its no wonder nobody gets to work.
All right, if you insist, I was already in stitches at that point. The interview after that was less amusing, though. What she interviewed was a pair of whining snivellers. They complained about the council not clearing the cul-de-sac (and probably their private parking lot, too); about the impossibility to get anywhere without a car; and it went on endlessly in that vein. If ever you want to know what is wrong with Britain, this pair was the epitome of the sickness.
Britain is renowned for its Universities and Colleges; they also offer a great many absolutely useless courses with an equally useless degree. The same goes for utterly brainless GCSE courses and exams. As the government is currently playing around with the school system anyhow, maybe they could include a few useful lessons into the curriculum. How about shovelling? Maybe how to mount winter tyres would also be feasible. And then it would be high time to take the word work from the list of four letter words you are not allowed to mention.
Quite frankly, most British employees look out of their windows in the morning; if they can see a single snow flake drifting down they are immediately incapacitated to get to work in any way. It is funny, though, that migrant workers manage to get to work no matter what the weather looks like, even if they have to slog on foot for miles through snow. Is anybody astonished that companies hire more and more migrants?
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