Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,Britain's streets are rotting in plain sight. Road signs coated in years of grime, pavements choked with weeds, blocked drains, overflowing bins and potholes have become everyday features of life in what was once a first-world country. Local authorities, funded by rising council tax, routinely fail to deliver the most basic maintenance. Ordinary people - including schoolchildren - are now having to do the job themselves.All across the length and breadth of the country, from London squares to provincial roads, citizens are cleaning signs, restoring bins and clearing litter because the people paid to do it will not.Four images that are commonplace across Britain:
??Rubbish everywhere.
??Weeds growing on pavements
??1 million potholes
??Blocked road drains
