Snow-flakey Lambeth Lacks True Grit

4.42.00pm GMT Thu 7th Jan 2010

As if there wasn't enough misery around, Lambeth piles on the agony just as soon as the temperature drops.

Reports have been flooding-in about residents who have not been able to drive their cars because Lambeth cannot salt and grit their areas in the recent cold snap. Worse still they can hardly stand-up on the pavements either.

Worst affected have been the hilly areas in the south of the borough such as West Norwood and Streatham (which are supposed to have priority) but we've heard Herne Hill and Brixton Hill residents complaining that their areas are just as bad and even the South Bank is reportedly like an ice-rink.

According to Lambeth Labour's spin, they're on top of it. But they were caught out just before Christmas - and they'd been crowing only days before that they could cope with anything the winter weather could throw at them. Back then they said that they'd never again be in the position they found themselves in February 2009 where they ran out of salt and grit and had to go begging to Southwark for a few cupfuls.

They haven't looked very on top of things over the last few days either and it has only been Lambeth motorists in a spin trying to traverse modest inclines on the way to work, school or shopping.

With more sub-zero temperatures and more snow threatened over the next few days let's hope that Lambeth does finally get its winter act together - and preferably before Spring arrives……