The Big Freeze

Congratulations the people of Britain as once again we have gotten through yet another crisis. A crisis that will probably go down in history as the "extended white Christmas" or the "bloomin' 'eck it was a bit cold wasn't it" period to give its more affectionate name.

It was a great opportunity at the start of election year to see if our government could handle everything that was thrown at them, putting the great back in Great Britain. Instead they managed to do seemingly very little other than put the great back into great big cock up.

The major problem was the lack of grit available to cover the roads and pavements to stop incidents like the one that was beautifully captured by ITV News here. Surely something that should surely have been stocked up on before winter, a season normally renowned for its icy conditions.

We worried that everything was going to grind to a halt. We worried when the opposing parties spread rumours that the gas was going to run out. We were concerned when the children couldn't get to school (or just pissed off that they were on the streets throwing snowballs at our heads). We were even more angry when public transport was even more unreliable and disrupted our day more than usual.

Yet the one thing we didn't worry about was the state of our supermarkets, which leads me to think how can they be prepared more than our government. If only Gordon Brown had stocked up on grit like a prepared Mr Tesco has stocked up on Easter eggs at the start of January then we would have surely seen the big freeze through a lot simpler.