"The state of a nation’s public services, from its health system all the way to its toilets, tells you a lot about its priorities. As with so many aspects of our society, the coronavirus pandemic has revealed to many what was already obvious to plenty: that after 40 years of neoliberalism and a decade of Tory austerity , Britain is a place in which private interest trumps public comfort." Blaming exclusively the Tories, absolves [(New) Labour. The same things applies to encroachment on public spaces like pavements by businesses, lack of benches, closures of water fountains, etc. The business of England is business. Thus the sluggishness of the government to impose earlier restrictions and a lockdown to minimise the spread of coronavirus. What does the lack of public toilets say about the country?
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51