Snow and the Collapse of the Infrastructure.
Yesterday, a moderate amount of snow fell on Britain.
London shut down completely.
For the first time since buses started in London, none of them ran.
Six million people were unable to get to work.
The Underground was also affected. How snow managed to fall inside tunnels, I have no idea.
You know who did get to work? Boris Johnson.
Yes, rest assured, even if London falls apart, the second most useless and incompetent man on the planet will be at his post. Doing what? Well, he did tell the weather he was impressed with the show but enough was enough.
Airports were also closed, which baffled people coming back from skiing holidays in countries that don't collapse just because of a few flakes of snow.
It was mentioned that we had much more snow in the 70s and 80s. I was around then and can confirm it. I was once lost in a blizzard between my house and the church until we managed to stumble into a wall we recognised.
As someone pointed out on the radio, Canada gets considerably more snow than us and somehow avoids losing the capital city for a day. Sweden, Norway and Russia all get more snow, and function fine.
It's not the fault of Boris, although it is the fault of men like him, elected representatives with no idea how to do anything. The previous elected mayor was also utterly useless at preventing problems. If you pick a leader by voting, all you get is the person least loathed by the majority of the people. This is no reason to assume the person has any ability beyond convincing people that he's not as terrible as the other chap. Usually, the winner of an election is therefore the best liar.
There's also the problem that Brits are just losing their ability to cope.
The Blitz didn't stop the buses running. Winters far harsher than this one failed to. We're turning into a nation of wimps and cowards. No wonder our armed forces would rather blast goatherds and maternity hospitals from a distance than engage with enemy soldiers. No wonder our government is too craven to stand up to Israel. Thank goodness we had more backbone when Hitler was around.
We also seem to be becoming more stupid. A woman has just been jailed for 21 months for killing another driver by driving and texting at the same time. In my opinion, the sentence should have been far greater. We need some kind of system in cars that renders it impossible to use a mobile phone when the engine is running, because the idiots currently driving around our roads are incapable of grasping the simple fact that a driver who is using a mobile is not in control of the car. When I was young, nobody had mobiles and only the most ridiculous had car phones. If you needed to call somebody while out, you found a telephone box. It was perfectly simple. I had mastered the procedure in early childhood. I realise that later generations have a problem with their legs (the medical term is, I believe, laziness), but I'm sure that, with the proper training and maybe a few ads by some drug-addled sportsman saying how cool it is, they could manage to stagger the few yards from the car to a telephone box. Most road accidents are still caused by drink or drugs (a lot by cannabis in recent years). After that, mobile phones are a huge factor.
Meanwhile, the Scots are annoyed that their parliament gave money to prevent a Titian masterpiece leaving the country. They should be grateful! Ours spends our money on murdering Muslims, supporting animal cruelty, grooming children for sex and destroying people's homes to produce venues for an Olympic Games that nobody wants.
London shut down completely.
For the first time since buses started in London, none of them ran.
Six million people were unable to get to work.
The Underground was also affected. How snow managed to fall inside tunnels, I have no idea.
You know who did get to work? Boris Johnson.
Yes, rest assured, even if London falls apart, the second most useless and incompetent man on the planet will be at his post. Doing what? Well, he did tell the weather he was impressed with the show but enough was enough.
Airports were also closed, which baffled people coming back from skiing holidays in countries that don't collapse just because of a few flakes of snow.
It was mentioned that we had much more snow in the 70s and 80s. I was around then and can confirm it. I was once lost in a blizzard between my house and the church until we managed to stumble into a wall we recognised.
As someone pointed out on the radio, Canada gets considerably more snow than us and somehow avoids losing the capital city for a day. Sweden, Norway and Russia all get more snow, and function fine.
It's not the fault of Boris, although it is the fault of men like him, elected representatives with no idea how to do anything. The previous elected mayor was also utterly useless at preventing problems. If you pick a leader by voting, all you get is the person least loathed by the majority of the people. This is no reason to assume the person has any ability beyond convincing people that he's not as terrible as the other chap. Usually, the winner of an election is therefore the best liar.
There's also the problem that Brits are just losing their ability to cope.
The Blitz didn't stop the buses running. Winters far harsher than this one failed to. We're turning into a nation of wimps and cowards. No wonder our armed forces would rather blast goatherds and maternity hospitals from a distance than engage with enemy soldiers. No wonder our government is too craven to stand up to Israel. Thank goodness we had more backbone when Hitler was around.
We also seem to be becoming more stupid. A woman has just been jailed for 21 months for killing another driver by driving and texting at the same time. In my opinion, the sentence should have been far greater. We need some kind of system in cars that renders it impossible to use a mobile phone when the engine is running, because the idiots currently driving around our roads are incapable of grasping the simple fact that a driver who is using a mobile is not in control of the car. When I was young, nobody had mobiles and only the most ridiculous had car phones. If you needed to call somebody while out, you found a telephone box. It was perfectly simple. I had mastered the procedure in early childhood. I realise that later generations have a problem with their legs (the medical term is, I believe, laziness), but I'm sure that, with the proper training and maybe a few ads by some drug-addled sportsman saying how cool it is, they could manage to stagger the few yards from the car to a telephone box. Most road accidents are still caused by drink or drugs (a lot by cannabis in recent years). After that, mobile phones are a huge factor.
Meanwhile, the Scots are annoyed that their parliament gave money to prevent a Titian masterpiece leaving the country. They should be grateful! Ours spends our money on murdering Muslims, supporting animal cruelty, grooming children for sex and destroying people's homes to produce venues for an Olympic Games that nobody wants.