When you look at the cost of a few thousand snow ploughs it looks pretty insignificant compared to the cost of other unused things that the British government has in its ownership,just for one there is the small matter of sumbmarines,they cost billions to manufacture and i dare say cost billions a year for their upkeep …. then again they are a useful “deterrent”,but the fact of the matter is,snow ploughs do actually save lives ….. you don’t see many submarines sailing down the M1 with the Captain in his conning tower shouting “snow ahoy” :?
I know it’s slightly off topic,well in a way,but me thinks the country spends a lot more money on worse things than snow ploughs.