From tonight's C4 News Snowmail. I couldn't agree more! "- Wanging on and on about how it doesn't happen in Sweden/Canada/ USA etc is about as relevant as hamster-sexing because it happens to these places every year - totally different climate, different snow, different preparations. - You have to prepare by law - try driving in Germany without winter tyres and see what a legal mess you are in when you have a crash. - The UK is a north Atlantic island caught between the temperate Gulf stream and savage easterly airflow from a trading estate just outside Moscow. A fraction of a degree shift can decide between horrid wet night and winter wonderland. - No country in the world grits all its roads - nor ever has. - Because you have not personally seen a gritter/snowplough - does not mean county councils have not been treating major roads round the clock for days on end. So, that said, do you want your large council tax bill spent on gritters and snow ploughs - which will be used a few nights and days every year, or five years, or a decade in many parts of the UK? Or should the money go on hospitals, schools etc?" If I overhear one more person saying "I don't understand this country, all it takes is just a little bit of snow etc etc..." I'll bloody strangle them.