The Anonymous Widower

Gritting Priorities

It was interesting to hear on Radio 5 last night from Alistair Kight of GRITIT and the fact that people are stealing salt supplies.  He was also very critical of local and national government, who only had very inadequate supplies and have thus added to the chaos.

He has a point.

Surely, we should have enough supplies to keep all the main and most of the secondary roads open for a month.  Where I live I’ve never seen a gritter at all on the fairly steep up and down, that leads to the main road.  Surely, it should have been done at least once, as the road leads to some elderly and seriously ill people.

But then we vote Conservative in this area, so there are no votes for Prudence in giving my council enough money to provide adequate services.

I was in London yesterday and they were gritting the paths of Regents Park.

Gritting in Regents Park

 So at least we have our priorities right!

January 15, 2010 - Posted by AnonW | News | Gordon Brown, London, Weather