of those f*cking 4X4s if people don't use them in adverse weather conditions? Isn't that the bloody point?!?

"Oh, I don't want to ruin my shiny alloys or my leather interior!" Muppets!

Lightweights the lot of 'em!!

Knowlegeable Land-Rover drivers drove carefully and assisted lesser mortals along the way.

Best photo I've ever seen of Slab Square.

a bit of snow and the whole south grinds to a halt you bunch of softies! now excuse me while i go do hanbrake turns in our car park while security are busy gritting the paths

I've not laughed so much at an article in a long time.

Come on - you spend £50k on a Range Rover or BMW X5, you're not a farmer and can't be expected to know what that "low ratio" lever is all about - you never have used it before. In fact, if you do think you know what you're doing, as the article says, you'll end up causing more problems.

Train companies. Highways agency. Snow we knew was coming several days in advance. FAIL.

perfect hunting ground for the Subaru faction...

Go, defenitly GO!

I got to the office at 7 on the dot in my 4x4 thank you very much, unlike most of my collegues who didnt fancy it one bit. And besides, I could drive about in this all day, it's all the c**ts in Corsa's wheel spinning to oblivion on every slight inclne that cause the problems. So there.

3 of them stuck at the bottom of a hill waiting for tow-trucks :) lol!! Seen a couple of mini's flying round the streets (due to lack of grip and lack of driver brains!!) A+E will be busy today!!

saw four of them on the way into London this morning. Hard Core ! (read - fucking idiots!)

I nearly died half a dozen times myself just so I could get my laptop and leg-it back home to work in the warm - it was dicey enough in a car, let alone a bloody bike!

Flames - just enough to warm your toes

Obviously the speller has left the offensiveness up to the reader to decide.

Sorry, but...why is a reference to the esteemed Mr Eastwood, star of many a smash spaghetti western (not to mention the "Dirty Harry" franchise) now deemed nsfw.

Its political correctness gone mad, I tell you.

Paris - because she sometimes has difficulty spelling "Clint"

is that all the snow it takes to bring London to a grinding halt? Christ, you bunch of southern pansies. You can still make out the pavement! You can actually see tarmac!

You should only be complaining when it's measured in inches(or feet) rather than mm (or Angstroms).

And those people were talking about four feet of snow, not half a foot.

Now, which is more snow: four feet deep snow or six inches of snow?

My 2CV is owning the Roads !!!!!

So good to be driving past people stuck in their flash crappy plastic cars !!!!

Mines the one with the starting handle in it

It's not all bad actually. I managed to make it into the office reasonnably well: I waited 15 minutes for an elusive First Capital Connect service before being told it would be another 15 minutes before we saw the shadow of a train. So I decided it would be quicker to use the Northern line and discovered that because most people had decided to stay at home, the tube was actually working fine and was even quite pleasant as it was much less crowded than normal.

The TFL's journey planner was slow but working this morning too. Now, of course, the information it provided for services such as FCC (see above) was completely unreliable as FCC forgot to tell TFL they had severe delays and cancellation. Not that it significantly changes the quality of service of course.

"London should break away from the rest of the UK and become its own nation. Then you'd be sorry. Buahaha! "

No, we wouldn't. Mwahahaha!

I'd agree with Sarah. The UK would be about 10% down on CLINTS if London went it alone! Snarl up's ain't caused by the snow, they're caused by suvvern softies who ain't got a ruddy clue how to drive in it!

Nigel

We are being advised not to attempt to travel 'unless our journey is essential'.

Trouble is, leave that judgement up to a lot of London commuters, and they'll get it utterly and pathetically wrong.

I'd like to see them advise people not to travel whether they think their journey is essential or not.

Where's the Nanny State when you need it? Too busy sniffing around in overfilled dustbins.

I've always considered Cambridge to be the most northerly part of the South and, yes, I was just fine in my Subaru Legacy thank you very much.

Well techinally Nottingham is North of the Trent....

Anyway, at least the rail companies did get information up eventually. There is no information on the bus service outside London...

This morning I saw a driver of a Porsche Cayenne deciding that two inches of pristine snowfall was impassable, doing a several point turn and retreating. This was in Paddington St, W1. That's the first left heading down Baker Street after the station. Numpty on so many levels.

"cut-off communities such as Guildford" - you make it sound like a 10 house hamlet with a pub; Its verging on a city!!

With a higher rate of spending per head than even Scotland, we'd do well to get rid of those money-spending, moaningly malcontent metropolitans.

I am not sure the X5 has low ratio gearbox - however driven correctly then the Xdrive (4 wheel drive system), traction control and stability programmes it will be more than a match for the weather - same system certainly got me in today without hassle :-)

but lets face it - those people who don't allow enough braking distances in the wet and and don't adjust their speed (downwards when required) to merge in/keep flowing at junctions etc. - i.e. unable to think more than 5 mtrs down the road aren't going to be able to cope whatever the car (and just as likely to be in an Audi, Ford, Toyota etc as a BMW) in this weather

@AC 12:00 GMT

Seems that there are only 10 types of people that understand binary numbers as well....

Contrary to your research notes, Evil Auditor, the vast majority of the London Underground is actually OVERGROUND. So are the depots. And how were the staff to get to work?

I'll not resort to the typical "Southern pansies" comments I'm sure will have been posted by now, but will instead remind Londoners that historically, they've had much worse weather in the past, and done just fine.

There were more tube and bus services running during the Blitz than during this "light sprinkling".

I mean, FFS. Southern nancies for teh wi....I mean EPIC FAIL.

<enters ruddy-faced and glowing>

I love how the police, travel companies etc say "only travel if your journey is essential". I keep trying to convince my bosses that my coming to work isn't actually essential, but they disagree, dammit.

And if London split from the rest of UK, they'd get to keep all the politicians, as well as the vast majority of consultants, financiers, lobby groups, homeopaths, hairdressers, middle management and telephone sanitisers, which would be just perfect for the rest of us!

<goes to make snow angels>

I have to agree with Sarah here.

London should breakaway imagine the benefits.

1) London shrinks in size and importance as nobody can get in from outside to work there.

2) Public money actually would get spent elsewhere in the UK.

3) The rest of us might actually be able to buy local homes without Londoners buying them up first.

Maybe we should make Scotland the new capital of the UK at least they could teach us all how to deal with snow. Grabbing my coat, mine's the one that looks like its for an Arctic expedition.

Nottingham is neither North, nor south. It's in the Midlands. The East Midlands, actually. We know this because the telly has East Midlands Today on it..... I think.

Still, a massive clint is wildly entertaining!

Incidentally, it's snowing here in Hannover (that's Germany - possibly North) and all the trams/underground trains are running fine. Vorsprung durch bloody-mindedness!

Paris 'cos, well, she's got a huge clint too (probably)