Tory propaganda at its finest by the looks of it.

It really is pathetic, the infrastructure can't cope with any substantial amount of snow whatsoever, the article may blow it out of proportion, but I don't think it the snow alone could have such an impact upon the economy, many factors true, snow being the least of them.

IMO the UK is in bigger trouble than it lets out. Im not sure why but something doesnt seem right to me, they could be using the snow as an excuse for the latest economic statistics that are going to be released because there going to show we've dumped back into recession. Unemplyment is rising and rising yet there letting more and more eastern europeans to work!? The best thing is the 20+ eastern europeans that work where i work all send there money they earn back to there own country to support there families back there!!

But yes your right the country is as pathetic as you think it is.
as the saying goes
we were once an EMPIRE run by EMPERORS
we were once a KINGdom run by KINGS
now we're a COUNTry run by CU*TS

*rant over*

So so true. There is very little reporting on snow, if snow falls in Scotland instead

Well when it's more beneficial to sit on benefits rather than actually working for a minimum wage who would bother? Blaming the immigrants is a typical way to circumvent the glaring problem of gross mismanagement and the lack of help for those who are in employment but are having severe financial difficulties.

At least we can agree that snow is a massive facade for gross mismanagement by the government and lack of any substantial action to target the growing unemployment problem and consistent contraction of the economy

Indeed, but I think its because London doesn't seem to have any plausible solution to anything more than an inch of snow other than severe delays on public transportation. It's pitiful taking into account the obscenely large amount of money you have to pay for tickets even when having a student Oyster. And that's just one of the problems -_-

What's horse shit? The OP acknowledged that this is indeed a problem in UK. Or am I missing something?

But how hard is it really to just grit the roads and main paths around the city, they knew the snow was coming and yet once again, nothing was done to keep things moving. As, for the increasingly expensive public transport, thats going straight to one place only, to make the government and there business buddies richer and richer. If the money had been used to improve infrastructure, then there would be less problems now. 

There are consistent "engineering works" in London Underground, all of which go on for an extended period of time, cause mass inconvenience and bottle necks, kudos to them at least they try to keep them to weekeneds or off peak times, but still. I just don't understand how pricey the tube is, it's a daylight robbery. And that's the thing, councils seem to slack and barely grit the roads, I mean similar shit has happened consistently the last 2/3 years and yet they dont learn from their mistakes. Every year, it snows/cold snap in January/February, roads get icy, accidents increase, busses & tubes barely run, it's like a British thing now.

Yes we have, but snow is so infrequent and usually only last a week so we never really prepare for it. I was quite exasperated on Friday the two 'major' stories on the BBC News website were the Algerian hostage crisis and the country wide snowstorms. Out of the two, the one that got the minute-by-minute live coverage was the snowstorms. 

:/

Wow. I don't know if it was said in the OP but, how long do you guys expect to have this blanket of snow?