MagicTiger said
Secondly people in Scandinavia have courses in how to drive on winter roads and icy conditions, people in the UK are like "babies" learning to walk, and not even having some common sense of how dangerous these conditions really are unless you have some experience and the right equipment on your car.
Here in Sweden not only are winter tyres mandatory from December to March, you must spend a day on the skid pan and pass the skid test before you can get a licence.