On Jan 15, 3:00*pm, Lawrence13 wrote:
On Jan 15, 1:56*pm, "Tony Kenyon"
wrote:

Tony: I have railed against the MetO codswallop for years.
My belief is that the Labour Party knobbled them and turned them
into Pravda.

What Labour party?

It was a Conservative government in Nixonesque caricature that
attmpted to milk a government department that is a seriously inwards
flowing resource hog in most civilised countries.

It is virtually the exuivalent of a water utility or an health
service, specifically impossible to make economically viable and do
its job to the best of its ability.

When you put strict limits on its manpower you have a substyantially
poorer reserve of people to choose from in all the departments it
could be running if it were fully supported by government.

As for the Labour party that fell apart after the Wilson Government
and the CIA got at it.

Tory Blair just killed it.
If he's have given useful utilities a fraction of a fraction of what
he gave the gangsters who ruined the planet under him, we'd be the
envy of the world.

Or not as is more likely.

Yet the MetO goes on how proud it is and boast how its forecasts are
helping certain folk to breathe a bit easier.

Got a link?

It isn't cold weather that kills people it is the way they vegetate
trying to get warm. Winters make norther hemisphere natives stronger
by their nature.

If they can get out in the day to clean their lungs and keep off
modern diets they would be better off than huddling in front of fires
all day clotting their lungs and making their houses dank.

Anyhow who listens to me, but I'm glad someone else gets irritated by
the OTT of UKMO.

It wasn't a slip up then?

I for one couldn't manage without their North Atlantic Charts, which
is a sure sign they are facing the axe.

But you do tend to hunt with the rabbits and race with the fungi.

The Met Office has been seriously drained of resources for a couple
decades or more. The fact it has to go begging for another computer
every now and again despite being the bastion of Europe's defences
against a harsh Atlantic isn't even considered.

How many good meteorologists have been let go or never replaced since
Margaret Thatcher stole their milk tokens?

Or do you think unmanned stations are a boon?