Quite frankly, it doesn't bother me if you don't visit however. Given your perspective, it looks like you simply cannot enjoy a place for what it is, rather than dwelling on whatever political content that offends you.
Ivan
The poliltical climate of a place is part of the place. It is an undivisable part of the place. All of the stuff that goes to make up a place goes together. You cannot separate one aspect and ignore the other. And you're right. I cannot enjoy something without its context. As an example, I can't stand to watch Hunt for Red October because it stars the odious statist and Clinton worshiper, Alex Baldwin, even though it is a pretty decent movie.
No matter what you spend or where you spend it, at the present time, it will end up in the hands of government, and to pay the salaries of those whose work you don't like.
This is true; however, the British government is a particularly egregious example of a totalitarian state with high tax rates and numerous arbitrary and capricious restrictions on its subjects. Example - didn't a shopkeeper get sent to jail recently for weighing his goods in pounds an ounces rather than grams and kilograms? Example - didn't an elderly farmer get sent to jail for defending himself with a shotgun from a couple of professional thugs when the thug (surviving) was given a slap on the wrist? Example - didn't the British government help the surviving thug sue the selfsame elderly farmer? I would not enjoy a vacation in a country where this sort of idiocy is not only the norm, but is constantly increasing.
Britain may have marvelous scenery and culturally edifying museums, but it also has one of the most hypocritical, arrogant and oppressive governments in the Western hemisphere, and I cannot turn off the part of my mind that is aware of this fact. Further I cannot help but think that most of the boobs I see walking around places like this want it this way