Snow? That’s not snow. THIS is snow.

Now that's snow and yet all transport remained open and running and on time too!

As Crocodile Dundee once famously said, “that’s not a knife, THIS is a knife!”

The same applies to snow in the UK and …well anywhere else in the world. It’s always funny to see how a few cm of snow can grind the UK to a halt.

People start abandoning cars on motorways, airports close, people can’t get to work, the railways get even more delayed or stop altogether.

And they call themselves a modern country? Japan, now that’s a modern country.

Having recently been to Japan and seen real snow, 6 metres of snow on the ground, 3m of which fell while I was there, I was amazed at how nothing was delayed, no one abandoned cars, the trains ran on time and no airports were shut. People prepared for it and got on with it as if it were a sunny day.

When snow on the sides of roads is taller than houses and buses and yet the road remains open, that’s called efficiency. When railways keep going (and on time too), despite continuous snow fall that’s just normal business sense. When an airport can remain open despite metres of snow (and I experienced the same in Geneva last year when Heathrow was closed with a few cm of snow) then it comes down to the way the country and  applicable organizations from road to rail to airports and central government prepare and manage and plan.

London's pathetic amount of snow has caused flights to be cancelled, trains delayed and cars abandoned....

Don’t tell me that the UK is not a country that gets snow each year and therefore doesn’t have to plan, it always gets snow and people are always surprised by it and everything closes.

It’s the only country in the world where this happens. I have been to Toronto’s airport and it has remain opened through continuous snowing, Munich, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, all with -20 and metres of snow and airports, railways, roads remain open….It comes down to how the country is led and managed.

Unlike any other business (for the UK is very much a business) they never learn from experience, never research options, never invest, never plan and never prepare. It’s not the snow!!