Omg, the reply from the Scafell post...
"weather reports are as accurate as your judgement!"
"We always put safety first "
"If we stay in when they say its bad we'd be looking at mountains on our phones"
No, the Met office provides information for you to use judgement. Even if you have some experienced hikers that doesn't mean they're able/ happy to lead the uninitiated in those conditions. The mountains aren't going anywhere, you can go back when it's not winter ffs and have a nice safe day.
These bleeping people are exhausting.
They are exhausting. They must be exhausted too looking for absolutely everything they can to be angry about, especially now that their relevance is about to completely drop off the cliff given Boris's questionable approach.
This idea that the storm warnings, and now even Met Office forecasts are rubbish and an excuse to tell people what to do...no one is stopping you doing anything but telling you it is dangerous. You choose to ignore that, again, up to you. You have the 'right' to choose what you want to do! But these selfish arseholes forget that their 'rights' don't infringe on those of others. They forget that by them pretending storms don't exist, if they get into trouble, car breakdown/crash, tree through car, injured by debris, struggle in flooding, they then put other people at risk coming to save their very selfish selves. The more people are out dealing with the reckless who have no regards for their own safety or that of others, the less resources to deal with true accidental emergencies, etc. But no it's all some big conspiracy to keep them all inside forever! The way this lot behave, if they wanted to keep them all inside forever, I'm pretty sure some of them could meet thresholds for holds under the Mental Health Act or there be enough found against them to imprison some of them. Best part of it is is that no doubt most of the ridiculous thought processes have come from people who have voluntarily imprisoned themselves in their own homes for years anyway (imagine thinking you are a free thinker and troofer yet believing everything fed from a box bedroom somewhere).