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ACTIVISTS BEHIND AN anti-Brexit stunt that rebranded Kent as the “Toilet of England” have said police have better things to do than investigate their prank.
A number of signs across the English county were changed by a group of campaigners opposed to Brexit.
Where before motorists would be politely informed they were entering the Garden of England – as Kent is known – the new message read: “Welcome to Kent The Toilet of England”.
The stunt aimed to highlight fears of huge lorry queues along the county’s motorways, with suggestions that portable toilets will have to be installed on roadsides for use by delayed drivers.
Kent Police said they have been made aware of “criminal damage” to road signs in the county and inquiries are continuing.
But a member of the activist team, known collectively as EU Flag Mafia, hit out at the idea of officers devoting time to the stickered signs.
They told the PA news agency: “We acted on behalf of the residents of Kent. Everyone who was involved in placing ‘Toilet’ on the road signs lives in Kent and we reject any suggestion that any damage was done to any of the road signs – the stickers can be removed very easily.
“If any Kent resident feels offended, we suggest they simply remove the stickers.
“We suggest that Kent Police have better things to be doing with their valuable time, like trying to work out how the people in Kent will be still be able to travel around the county while thousands of lorries are gridlocked in jams around the county.”
The cloak-and-dagger operation – which activists stressed was compliant with Covid-19 guidelines – covered around 30 road signs stretching from Dartford near London to the border with East Sussex.
Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove has previously warned that queues of up to 7,000 trucks could form in Kent unless businesses do more to prepare.
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After Brexit, Kent will be the carpark of Europe.
@Peter Cavey: and its own border
Made me laugh.
They are still blaming businesses for the mess they created I see
@Kyle: yep, I’ve booted you from the plane but its your fault you’re falling.
@Fozz: haha. I like your comment. I might have to plagiarise this. Lol
@Fozz: and the EU are being uncooperative in providing a parachute.
@James O’Donovan: The EU are looking after the EU that is their job. Brexit was based on lies and they are been shown up now.
You reap what you sow
Sure that’s nothing. There’s a village in Kildare that says “Welcome to Kill”
@Larry Betts: wonder what the sign outside Muff in Donegal says.
@Shelly Levine: Probably something in Portuguese for the Brazilian presence
@Larry Betts:
“Welcome to Muff
Dive Carefully”
@Shelly Levine: good diving club there I heard
@Shelly Levine: wonder what sign outside Effen says
@Shelly Levine: sign outside Effen says you are Effen welcome
@Shelly Levine: NO DIVING
So parts of that fine Garden County of England are likely to become both a tinder-box and a thunder-box after 1 Jan 2021, if Boris and his chumocracy doesn’t urgently p or get off the po with right moves in avoiding a no-deal scenario with EU.
The majority leave-vote in Kent, in 2016 EU Ref, may not have passed that motion had they been better informed on implications of Brexit.
VANGUARD of Liberty, ye men of Kent,
Ye children of a Soil that doth advance
Her haughty brow against the coast of France
William Wordsworth
Meanwhile the residents of Looe in Cornwall are wondering what all the fuss is about.
Longford Council is having an emergency meeting about installing cctv on the towns signs
A village in Austraia just voted to hange the the name of it to Fugging as it was called Fu8king. So toilet of England is not that bad really
David
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