Paul, what I expect someone to do with a snow shovel? To have cleared their designated section of pavements when the snow was fresh and still hadn't turned into ice.
I'd also expect these people to be paid, say £10 an hour, for a job that, here in Kent, might be a one-off occasion each year. Two people can clear fresh snow away from quite a few pavements in the course of 8 hours.
So 50 people in Dover could have done the job in one day. Times 50 by £80, that's £4,000.
A young unemployed person could well do with £80 for a day's work.
But if one person falls and fractures a wrist, and sues for £8,000, that is rocket science, it works out "healthier" for the person who slipped and fractured a wrist, "cheaper", especially if many people slip and break a bone, and in particular "cheaper" for the NHS.
Well done, Paul, and also to the councillors, for sheer common sense in rocket science.
