Tie me down and gag me quick!

Today I'm left wondering if this is all a bad dream. Someone please tell me it is because I thought I had wax in my ears when I heard the news this morning and you couldn't make this up. The government are now telling councils around the country to ration the salt because supplies are so low and we only have enough left for a couple of days!
I think it's time they woke up and smelled the coffee. Hasn't anyone told our government that we've got salt mines in Cheshire because this is where the councils get the darned stuff! They should fill up a few coaches with the unemployed (you know the ones I mean, those who have never worked and have no intention of doing so if they can help it) there are a lot to choose from. They could quite easily work twelve hours shifts, (I used to when I was nursing and some shifts were even longer), that would soon improve our stocks and would also give the taxpayers some return for all the tax we pay to them in the form of benefits just to keep them idle!
Then the government should all be returned to the classroom because there are quite a few things they need to learn. Firstly and most importantly are listening skills. They are very fond of hearing their own voices but they never have the guts to listen, even to those who are experts in their field. This is demonstrated by the fact that recently they tried to gag a very eminent scientist because they didn't like what he said! Good for him, he resigned! They haven't been listening to the experts who study the subject of the climate. We have all been warned over and over again that due to global warming and climate change, this country along with many others, will suffer extreme weather in the form of severe and extensive flooding, ferocious storms with abnormal storm force winds, very hot, prolonged dry spells and very cold winters with plummeting temperatures.
To any reasonably educated person I should have thought that this was quite clear but not so to those who govern us! After the snow we had last February when we ran out of salt for the roads, they said it must never happen again and plans were put in place, or so they had us all believe, in order that history would not repeat itself this year (every time we have snow, we hear this!). Then lo and behold, on the radio this morning one of them said that there had not been enough time to get new salt store yards in place. Well how long do you bloody well need? There are more than enough 'brownfield' sites in this country where nothing is happening. Some of them are in the hands of developers who are not developing at present, due to the recession so why can't they use these in the short term? Honestly, this lot haven't even got the sense they were born with so hopefully we'll get shot of them this year. Sadly, the next lot will probably be as bad!
Then the politicians are complaining about how much the country is losing because people are not going to work. Well they can't because the roads are treacherous due to lack of salt so do they expect everyone to walk even if they live an hour's drive or thirty miles or so away? This lot want their cake and eat it too!
These politicians are the same greedy so and so's who were caught with their fingers in the cash box. They have been happily fleecing the British taxpayers by claiming what can only be described as obscene expenses for second homes (or country piles) while some of us are struggling to pay our rents or mortgages. They buy their furniture and household items from a shop that most of us can't afford, we have to make do with the flat packs from Argos or Ikea (you know, the ones that fall to pieces after a couple of years and don't have enough screws to put them together). Some people just don't have any conscience when it comes to feathering their own nests.
This leaves me puzzling about what sort of experience will endure during the next cold spell.