[Proud_USA_Republican]

“One of the three cubicles had been locked shut, presumably blocked. Another I was told not even to show my daughter into in case it frightened her. I glanced, saw blood, retreated. The sole final cubicle, for which everyone was queueing, wouldn’t flush without a repeated pumping of the button and most people were coming out embarrassed and apologetic that they had not managed it.”

They just wanted to make sure they didn’t offend any 3rd worlders by having nice public bathroom facilities. All in the spirit of multiculturism.

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

One imagines a legion of public servants going out to clean every loo in the country, little knowing or caring that it's simply a symptom and the disease is much more entrenched than merely shoddy workmanship.

[kipita]

I tend to think a family, community, or county suffers when the lower echelon live like those in third world countries. Which explains Britain’s demise.

[2ndDivisionVet]

When I was on temorary duty in Germany back in 1980, you could eat off the sidewalks. Is it still that clean, I wonder?

[AnotherUnixGeek]

people from ticket salesmen to immigration officials are rude

This is something I've noticed every time I leave the US - customer service is apparently not encouraged or rewarded in any way in most of the world. What's more distressing is that the US has not been able to spread it's old tradition of good customer service to the rest of the world but instead is increasingly providing and getting used to lousy customer service too.

[July 4th]

I’ve seen this in other places in Europe. They just don’t put the same emphasis on bathroom facilities that we do here in the US. Plenty of European restaurants, bars, etc. still think a Turkish toilet is acceptable. The best bathrooms are the ones you have to pay for.

[bajabaja]

I am glad to find a Brit who wishes Yanks think well of her country. Visiting the Brit papers’ online comments sections frequently, I see many hold a contrary view. It is we who are despised. One commenter on a Brit site noted approvingly of Islam “flexing its muscle” in coming decades. That attitude will get Britain into more problems than just dirty “Water Closets.” I wish them well.

[Pontiac]

I see that a think-tank is proposing the anniversary of the creation of the NHS for a “British Day”, which the Prime Minister has long hankered after to remind us of our common communist values

fixed

[Moonmad27]

I used to fly from Houston to Gatwick yearly, until 15 years ago. It is so sad to read about this, and other things that have changed in Britain since my last visit. I feel like I got to see classic England just before the end of it.

[aroundabout]

I spent several years in the UK in the early ‘60’s and it sure has changed if any of this is true.

It seems as if we are about 10 years behind Britain in our day to day social behavior and trends. Maybe what is there will be here soon.

[aroundabout]

I spent several years in the UK in the early ‘60’s and it sure has changed if any of this is true.

It seems as if we are about 10 years behind Britain in our day to day social behavior and trends. Maybe what is there will be here soon.

[50sDad]

I was always taught that the real reason that Rome fell, after being a world-girdeling empire, was that the Roman legions were made in large part of the "younger sons" of the nobility, who went to seek fortune and honor in warfare because the eldest sons inherited the family riches. (This led to an army that "had a lot to lose" in the riches and honor department.) But it reached a point that there simply weren't enough "true" roman citizens to fill the needs of an army that control a third of the known world, and it became necessary to pay mercenaries to represent Rome's might. And a mercenary, who has no real stake in your battle, is prone to only be as loyal to a country or an idea as the next military payroll.

Lesson given? If you are a "hyphenated-American" of any stripe, you may be more loyal to your own ethos or origins than you are to the Republic that gives you the freedom to live there. And if you are in Britain, you may be hip deep in immigrants, legal and otherwise, who don't give a Union Jack about keeping the toilets in YOUR country clean...after all, it's not really THEIR country is it?

[Oberon]

pingferlater

[The Great RJ]

Perhaps there are toilets with foot baths provided in the name of diversity that are far cleaner.

[epow]

This is what you get with unrestricted immigration. As the British Empire empire faded into history colony by colony the natives of those former 3rd world colonies have streamed into Britain in droves.

The same thing is happening here, except our 3rd world immigrants aren’t legally coming from former colonies, they’re illegally invading us like a foreign enemy and our government is inviting them in by offering inducements to come and sanctuary if they stay.

[Joe Miner]

The budget to keep the loos clean was spent orienting them towards mecca. Priorities, you know.