The current weather problems in the United Kingdom have been severe. I woke up to snowdrifts this morning and it is still snowing heavily. My child’s nursery has been closed because of the weather and many roads in local rural areas are impassible to anything other than a Land Rover. The Met Office is predicting that worse weather, including high winds is on its way, which will no doubt bring more problems. But despite being a bit snowed in, we are lucky when compared to others.

So far nine people have lost their lives because of this appalling weather. People have died in car accidents from falling into iced-over watercourses and an elderly woman and a homeless man have been found frozen to death in the street. This weather incident has brought tragedy to some and it’s likely that there may be more deaths to come from this vicious winter storm, the likes of which some areas have not seen since 2013. There have been many Britons who have behaved heroically in the face of this swiftly arriving snowy paralysis. They have visited and fed their neighbours, dug out stranded cars and helped those in need of help. Such people make me proud to be British.

But, there are some things that don’t make me proud. Chief among those is local and national government. The current winter-related problems, ones that were to a large extent predicable, show up starkly the failure of national and local government to properly prepare for this incident. In turn this failure to prepare also casts light on the misplaced priorities of government and the cash wasted on often counter-productive rubbish, cash that could be better spent preparing for weather events of they type that we are currently experiencing.

It really does look like a situation where we freeze, whilst others feast.

There’s many examples of these misplaced priorities and wasted spending. Here’s just a couple.

Local councils continually whine about ‘cuts’ of central government funding to local government and lack of resources is often used as an excuse by councils for not keeping the correct snow clearing and snow management equipment readily available for these sorts of events. ‘We can’t spend all this money for equipment that is only going to be used at most every three years’ is the form of words that I have heard most often from council spokespersons when asked why they were caught out, again, by a winter storm. Yet the local authorities seem to have oodles of money available for various ‘diversity’ projects or to spend on housing and feeding members of Britain’s often violent and criminal ‘Syrian refugee’ community. Councils are wasting money on stuff like this but claim that they are skint when it comes to preparing for emergencies like this current one.

The Government department that oversees local government, the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) dishes out vast sums of money to various ‘diversity’ related groups, money that could be far better spent elsewhere. To give one incidence of this waste: Over the last ten years the DCLG gave just short of £1m to groups and projects started or run by one Muslim activist, a man called Fiyaz Mughal. Many of these projects were either completely useless or of little positive societal effect. The money that was given to this man’s projects could have bought 2000 forklift mounted snowploughs that council workers and those from companies that use forklifts could have fitted in order to keep minor roads and pedestrian and vehicular access ways clear of snow. What would you rather £1M was spent on – clearing snow or producing shite? Well the DCLG decided that producing shite was the priority.

This is just one case where we freeze and they feast

The Department of International Development (DFID) is another money pit for funds that could be far better spent here at home. DFID trousered in the fiscal year 2015 – 2016 £12bn of which 37% spent on Non Governmental Organisation projects, which at the time included Oxfam and 63% was given as direct aid to countries like Pakistan, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Nigeria and Syria. You will notice that the majority of these countries are ones which have produced vast numbers of individuals who have gone on to kill or rape or abuse Britons in the name of Islam. The money that is being wasted on sticking plaster projects in places like Pakistan which is a gaping wound of Islamic savagery, savagery that it also exports to the United Kingdom, could and should have been better spent elsewhere. Nigeria produced the murderers of Lee Rigby and is a country beset by religious conflict and corruption and we should ask: How much of our money is going into the pockets of corrupt Nigerian politicians and officials, either directly from the UK government or via third party NGO’s?

Remember it is our money, cash that we have had taken from us in taxes that are funding the lavish and sometimes abusive lifestyles enjoyed by senior aid workers in the countries that receive your unwilling largesse. Money that should have been spent on improving Britain’s infrastructure and preparing for natural and man made disasters has instead been wasted just as surely as if £12bn in fifty pound notes had been ripped up and flushed down the toilet. I look at outside at the weather and contemplate the utter waste that DFID truly are. For just one year of the amount of our money that has been spunked on DFID, Britain could have given a huge one-off grant to local authorities, whether as individual authorities or consortia of authorities, to ensure that they are prepared for the somewhat predictable issue of bad weather.

Again, whilst we freeze, they, in this case DFID and its beneficiaries, feast.

Across the country things are bad. In Scotland, troops have had to be brought in to ferry National Health Service staff to hospitals which should have prepared for this level of transport disruption by block booking hotels for their critical staff. Why didn’t they do this? Was it lack of willingness to prepare or was it lack of funds? The amount that it may have cost to put up staff, and make provision for their children during the course of the current emergency, is peanuts when compared to the amount wasted on NHS staff working in ‘diversity’. In 2014 alone for example, the NHS spent £6.8 million on ‘diversity’ and ‘equality’ staff. I doubt very much that it would have cost that amount to make provisions to keep NHS staff near to the hospitals when severe weather is predicted. However this is a drop in the ocean compared with what the NHS spent in 2014 on various non-jobs in Public Relations, EU engagement, sustainability and other complete wastes of money. We have an NHS system that cannot make the proper provisions to ensure that they are properly staffed, despite being one of the biggest employers in Britain, but they are quite happy to see £4m of public and charity trust money spent in East London on finding out why Muslims who shag their cousins for generation after generation, are producing damaged children.

Yet again we have an example of how those who misrule over us and the objects of their affection feast whilst the rest of us freeze.

The deadly weather event that Britons are facing is not as bad as some in the past, such as the winter of 1962/63, and it’s unlikely to be as lengthy as that disaster. But it has shown just how badly prepared many agencies have been for it and how ordinary Britons are having to do their best to deal with the problems caused by the weather. As I contemplate going out side to fetch some wood for the fire and shovel away the snow, I can’t help think that the problems we are facing at the moment may have been much less, had it not been for piss poor funding decisions and priorities across the spectrum of government. Because those who govern us have not taken the correct decisions and spent our money wisely on stuff like preparing for emergencies. Instead they have chosen to play Lady Bountiful with our money and spend it on diversity officers, the often ungrateful and dodgy ‘Syrian refugees’, public relations officers to polish the image of NHS hospitals, sometimes iffy foreign aid NGO’s and to help to prop up corrupt and failing Islamic basketcase nations.

Truly we are in a situation where our government has said to the British people ‘you go and freeze as we have to ensure that others feast’. We should not tolerate this attitude by those who govern us for a moment longer. It is time to speak out for ourselves and each other.