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David Frost, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, said few people raised in the freezing British winters of 1960s and 1970s could understand the failure to prepare.

''I wonder whether we have become a bit too complacent, or we are being a bit too bowled over by the constant talk of global warming,'' he told BBC radio. ''We should be perhaps planning on the basis that there is more freak weather about and we shouldn't just buckle to it.''

Many Londoners noted that bus services had continued through World War II and paused only for around an hour during the 2005 transit network suicide bombings.

Some suggested that British workers had set a poor example for the nation's children. Young Britons may become adults who think that ''when things get difficult you should just stay at home and have fun,'' said Margaret Morrissey, of the parenting lobby group Parents Outloud. More
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