Commuters desperate to avoid spending the night in a railway station or being eaten by their snow-bound fellow commuters were left none the wiser if they went to the National Rail website this afternoon.
The site, operated by the Association of Train Operating Companies, is a clearing house for train service information in the UK.
This afternoon, nervous commuters were greeted with a reassuring 503 error message as they wondered when to make a bolt from work, before a southwards moving band of snow hits the South East and completes the smothering of the entire UK under an icy blanket.
"The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later," the site cheerily told travellers facing the UK's worst Siberian onslaught since the Big Freeze of 2009.
My friends, We are broke. Our country—whatever it may once have been—is now laden with debt. And this isn't "the government's debt": it is our debt. The government has no money but what it takes—what it extorts—from us. We have gone beyond consensus politics: if a man were to come to your door, with a gun, and demand half of everything that you earned—on pain of severe punishment, on pain of the total ruination of your life—would you not protest?
“absolutely clear strategy for buggering us after the next election”.Ooh Err, whatever next?
