The recent spell of harsh weather seems to have highlighted at least one area where our local council has room for improvement in its decision making. I couldn’t help but notice that as council employees worked hard to shovel, sand and grit the roads and pavements surrounding the local council offices and neighbouring buildings, pensioners and child-laden mothers attempting to get basic supplies were slipping and falling along the nearby ice-covered pavements of the town’s high street.  Some might suggest this was an emphatic example of misappropriation of limited local resources.

Indeed, our local accident and emergency department had a 9 (nine) hour waiting list for admissions as a result of the huge influx of people requiring treatment for broken limbs after falling on the snow and ice.

What is the cost to the taxpayer of treatment and after-care for these broken-limbed multitudes. Surely it’s far more prudent to pay a council crew or even third-party contractor to shovel, sand and grit the high street and avoid as many of these expensive and life-changing injuries as is possible?