Am quietly pleased in British cities were people still queue
to get on the bus (for example, here in Belfast). This no longer happens in
London, where getting on the bus has become a chaotic scrum. It feels like a
literal manifestation of the shift since Thatcher; competitive self-interest
and individualism winning out over any social niceties.
I remember really noticing the change on the tube, about 10
years ago. Someone getting on asked a fellow passenger to move further inside.
The reply? “I was here first, why should I?”
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