Some toilets have dispensers of disinfectant gels which are good. I always go on at my kids about lining the seat with toilet paper, though not sure if they do! The younger one has not long been going into public toilet cubicles by herself, but I hammered it into her that she has to test the lock first.
France is just about entering the modern age now with their toilets. Holes in the ground are rare these days, though I spotted some at a zoo this summer! Yikes! We used to call them flush and rush, because if you didnāt rush, you could have wet feet.
Back onto Extinction Rebellion. Who would have thought eh?
But reducing carbon emissions to net zero by 2025 is not so much unrealistic as suicidal. To do this would force us to stop most industry in Britain from operating.
We would be committing to an act of impoverishment no nation in human history has or could ever contemplate, returning to levels of privation and hardship of the 18th Century, before the Industrial revolution.
The madness of XRās specific demands is, however, a red herring.
We will create a democracy fit for purpose and yes, some may die in the process
Roger Hallam, the founder of Extinction Rebellion*
The demonstrations arenāt about those, they are simply a hook to draw in well-meaning but gullible protesters who think XR is about stopping climate change.
In reality, XR has a hardcore programme of revolution.
Its aim is to destroy capitalism and our democracy ā and its environmental demands are merely a move towards that.
A report published this year by former Met Police counter-terror chief Richard Walton shows that XR aims to achieve a total breakdown of the state and democracy.
XR is an offshoot of rising Up, a group which calls for āa fundamental change of the political and economic systemā.
According to Rising Upās manifesto, all private businesses must be abolished and it should be āillegal for any enterprise other than the state and local co-operatives to create the nationās moneyā.
One of Rising Upās founders, Roger Hallam, is the key figure in XR. He says that XR āwill bring [the Government] down and create a democracy fit for purpose and yes, some may die in the processā.