The trouble with snow

Published: 2 December, 2010

• NOW the snow has arrived I’ve realised that snow-shovelling is a silly idea, fraught with difficulties, and should be left to those who know what they are doing. 

It is a long job to clean pavements properly and sprinkle salt on them. Isolated patches of shovelled snow on pavements will turn to ice causing people to end up in the Royal Free, or Moorfields Eye Hospital, or a cemetery. 

The council will have to get used to the idea that wages must be redistributed from the rich to the poor otherwise there is going to be serious trouble. Top council officials earning £100,000 plus pension pay-offs will have to have a drastic reduction in salary and street cleaners given a decent wage instead of being laid off. We are all in this mess inherited from profligacy and greed. People will have to stop building basement pools and gyms and the money thus saved can be used to build decent flats for people to live in,. 

NICHOLAS WOOD
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