DIRTY BRITAIN (1999)

LONDON, Capital city of the Dirty United Kingdom

• Early Sunday morning in north London, Turnpike Lane area. Perhaps marking the way to the local church for visitors?
• After the refuse collectors had done their 'work' in Hackney, East London. Something for Mr Manners, perhaps. Or the dogs, stray cats and rats
• Hackney, East London, conservation area plant tub. As perceived by those passing by, a place for planting things
• Two days of uncleared waste at the front entrance of a north London NHS hospital, just near the visitors' eating tables
• Two days of uncleared waste at the front entrance of a north London NHS hospital, and the security man just smiled on being advised about it. The waste continued to gather
• Same north London NHS hospital, where the dirty tissue paper coagulating on the sink perhaps attested to a collection of filthy female patients and visitors
• And where the female patients and visitors mistakenly imagined the floor in front of the toilet had had surgery (the doctors negligently omitting to remove the swabs?)
• A National Westminster Bank waste bin for information receipts from its cash dispensing machine. Protection of customer details was, it seems, not a priority
• Sainsbury's heap o' trash, on the other side of the recycling bins, was invisible to those in its Islington, London, car park. Out of this large food store's sight, out of its mind
• North London cab/taxi company amenity for the workers. No one could exactly complain about the lack of toilet paper
• Side garden of SOAS, University of London where the relaxing students lacked the mental skills to make the necessary like-comparison between themselves and nasty polluting industrial capitalists. Imagine this trickle of waste paper effluent increased one thousandfold and you have a Marxist conference event
  
  To be continued...

  
  
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