It’s all about warmth and comfort and hibernation. We get t to use most of our clothes and then cover them up with thick, long coats. We go to work in the dark. We get back home in the dark. In England the annual complaint season starts. The authorities know what’s coming ahead but they don’t prepare because , in their view, England doesn’t need all that ‘stuff’ that the rest of Europe has to deal with cold weather…
The problem is, it needs something more than what it has. Grown up s could take a leaf out of student’s books; they have made their feelings known about the proposed rise in tuition fees. Every single Londoner has come to expect poor service from their council in winter, rather than pressuring them to use the money they collect in taxes to make life better.
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