WHAT SALT??????

It is massively insensitive, not to say irresponsible, for any El Reg journo to file a report on here asking people to read something and "take it with a pinch of salt".

Currently in the UK, there is almost no salt.

Anywhere.

Local Councils desperately trying to clear major and minor roads of a snowfall that averages out across the UK to a depth of 1 milimetre have had to buy packets of salted crisps and melt them down.

Also, container ships are in emergency convoy as I speak, loaded with salt from Spain. They will arrive on Wednesday bu the chances of anyone still being left alive to unload them are now remote.

This is because UK news media is full of stories of people being killed or injured as they set out through the White Hell of Winter to the local Job Centre or anywhere else.

To judge from the scale and volume of headlines, around 3,846,000 people are now dead and 15,760,142 seriously injured.

None of this would have happened had this country not run out of salt.

As noted, I protest most strongly at El Reg's irresponsible advice and its crass insensitivity to the horror unfolding throughout the UK.

You should be ashamed.