An article in which the author explores the nefarious motives of those cleaning up graffiti.
>Everything is expensive but nothing works. Our streets are full of potholes; our houses are full of mould. All the shops are shut, except for a Tesco Express, where there are security tags on the eggs. It takes about a million years to build a railway line.
There are security tags on eggs because of the rich and landlords, and not because we've imported thieves.
>What might we say about all this [cleaning of graffiti]? Certainly there is a powerful vision here. Britain is crap – and people know it.
>Take graffiti, for instance. TfL has claimed that it’s unable to hold back carriages for cleaning and replace them with backups due to government budget cuts, but even if graffiti really were some sort of permanent, intractable problem on the tube – would the mere existence of graffiti be what’s making Britain crap?
As if graffiti just magically appears. As if it's like mouldy bread. A simple consequence of enough time passing.
>Granted: part of how we know Britain is crap is because it looks crap.
>In short, the more we think about how Britain is actually crap, the more we can think about who is actually responsible for its decline.
The ones stealing eggs and graffiting trains?
>This is stuff being done to us by the venture capitalists who seem to own all our strategic assets; the private landlords we decided to sell all our social housing stock to.
More social housing for minorities will fix it.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/27/britain-broken-graffiti-tube-uk-clean-london