From the BBC:

There is no suggestion councils did not do their jobs properly.

Really? You fucking what? Even if you are a fan of the councils, you have to concede that some are suggesting that councils did not do their jobs properly. Like me. I think, on balance, that the councils - with a hefty amount of help from TFL and the fucking training companies - showed themselves to be utterly incapable of doing their jobs properly. The absolute farce that came after just a little bit of snow can be blamed squarely on those institutions that failed to act on the repeated warnings that a cold snap was coming.

But nothing quite beats the mindless, self-serving justifications of those in local councils. The chairman of the Local Government Association Environment Board, Paul Bettison, is on grabbing onto the excuse making part of his role with both hands:

"The claim that it is local authorities' fault that they cannot run services needs to treated with a huge pinch of gritting salt..."

Oh, ahahahahahaha. Gritting salt. How fucking topical. Shame you couldn't stick some of the gritting salt on the roads rather than just using it as a punchline for a joke that Roy "Chubby" Brown would turn his nose up at.

Bettison goes on to claim that local governments did all they could to take the edge of what TFL were euphemistically - and pretentiously - calling "adverse weather conditions", but they were hampered by the snow continuing to fall. I sorry, but did they not consider for one moment that the snow might continue to fall? And that sometimes the snow can get inches deep? Where the fuck was the contingency plan?

The snow fall was never going to make life easier for people to get around, but the inaction of local governments and transport companies really did help to turn a snowy situation into an utterly crappy one for swathes of people across the UK. And they fucking wonder why we complain about ticket prices and about council tax...

Anyway, enough ranting about the snow for me. Let me summarise with my thoughts on all those who turned my daily commute into an arduous, frustrating trek in the freezing cold in a city that is supposed to be a world leading modern metropolis. They are a bunch of cunts.