I'm Not Dreaming of a Bottle-Green Christmas

This last time it snowed - February 2009 - Greenwich Council saw fit to grit the roads with pieces of broken glass. It is easy forget Labour's old stupidities - local and national - because they are quickly replaced with new stupidities and the human memory, being decidedly finite, has a limited capacity for them.

Which is why this oddly seasonally apt snowfall is a good reminder of ten months ago when residents of Greenwich had to navigate bottle-green pathways very gingerly lest they tripped and were injured by the broken bits of bottle.

Not only that, but bicycle tires got punctured and linos were ruined where glass was transported, from out-doors to in-, between the tread of footwear.

Not only that, but bits of broken bottles do not melt snow where as good old salt does. You can not but wonder why the Labour Council thought broken glass to be equal or superior to salt in the first place.