It's Time To Talk About The Shitting...
The short version
- Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News , The "enrichment" we were sold was cuisine, music and vibrant street life.
- What arrived, in town after town, is a sanitation standard the UN still spends billions trying to wipe out of third world nations.
- Open defecation is not a Western urban myth.
- WHO and UNICEF still count hundreds of millions of people doing it in fields, ditches and open ground.
- Nigeria sits near the top of the league table.
The story
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,
The "enrichment" we were sold was cuisine, music and vibrant street life. What arrived, in town after town, is a sanitation standard the UN still spends billions trying to wipe out of third world nations.
Open defecation is not a Western urban myth. WHO and UNICEF still count hundreds of millions of people doing it in fields, ditches and open ground. Nigeria sits near the top of the league table. India, despite a national toilet-building drive, still records tens of millions.
When you import the people at scale and refuse to enforce the most basic public standards, you import the habit. The footage is now so routine it has become a genre.
The picturesque village of Broxtowe, Nottinghamshire, has been blessed with the kind of diversity that was only previously seen in London:
— Rare | ???? (@RareRestore) August 31, 2026
Africans defecating in residential streets in the middle of the day ?? pic.twitter.com/GrR5FPCIx3
A children's park is next. Nothing says community cohesion like a man treating a playground as an outdoor latrine and finishing the job by hand.
A man defecates in a children's park. He uses his hand to clean himself. pic.twitter.com/BEcggkUlAq
— David Atherton (@daveatherton) September 6, 2026
Truly, the contribution to British civic life is immeasurable.
Notting Hill Carnival has been doing this for years. A resident's doorbell captured carnival-goers treating her property as a trench for shitting and pissing all day. Some even apologised to the camera. Sadiq Khan's London treats the event as a celebration.
This London Resident used her Ring Doorbell Cam to capture dozens of Notting Hill Carnival Goers pissing & shitting on her property all day.
— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) September 1, 2026
Some even apologised to the camera ??
Sadiq Kahn likes to celebrate this for Londoners. pic.twitter.com/qnXi0HGGtd
Susan Watts, 69, recorded dozens of people using the space by her front door after earlier carnivals and told the Daily Mail the stench left it "like being in a filthy toilet." The council quoted her £75 to jet-wash a private area. Dignity, it turns out, has a surcharge.
THIS IS ENGLAND TODAY. IMPORT THE THIRD WORLD, BECOME THE THIRD WORLD. GOD HELP US ALL ???? pic.twitter.com/zAS3RAMXlI
— aileen B ????????? (@AileenBart60380) August 27, 2026
Oxford Street is London's main retail drag. When you have to put up signs telling adults not to defecate on it, the experiment has already failed.
This is displayed on Oxford St. London's main retail thoroughfare. When you have to put up signs saying "don't shit here" something has gone badly wrong. pic.twitter.com/ZviMfaX0on
— m o d e r n i t y (@ModernityNews) February 21, 2026
I think this was seen on Oxford Street? I was shocked- l lived in London for 15 years until mid 1990s and never saw anyone shitting in the street far less posters forbidding it.
— Cait Mercer (@MercerCait) February 21, 2026
Birmingham now has the same notices.
UK: ??
— Rogue (@RogueUnfiltered) June 1, 2026
SHAMEFUL Defecating in the streets is prolific in Birmingham.
It has been said that Britain of old was paved with gold.
Ever since we've been invaded, our streets are paved with SHIT.
Don't be fooled, if our cities were still safe and proud, there would be no need... pic.twitter.com/3jrAq0ua4T
The NHS gets it too. An intoxicated man who has already fouled himself refuses to leave A&E. Staff time, corridor space, and public patience all redirected to a problem that starts with the same refusal to use a toilet.
?INTOXICATED MIGRANT REFUSES TO LEAVE A&E HOSPITAL AFTER PISSING & SHITTING HIMSELF ?
— Gauci Reports (@GauciReports) November 15, 2025
?THIS IS WHY THE NHS IS ON ITS ARSE - ABSOLUTE STATE OF IT! pic.twitter.com/8xZIPGHEMs
Spain and Italy get the same treatment.
Muslim migrant shitting in the streets in Ceuta Spain ?? ?
— CanadianExMuslim (@ExMuslimAz) July 31, 2026
Welcome to the Islamic enrichment of Europe ? pic.twitter.com/PzK8LF9SdR
A drinking fountain in Spain with the tap used as an anal bidet, on a fixture children drink from.
Migrant washes his ass at a drinking fountain in Spain which kids use to drink. Sources confirm the tap was wedged in between his buttcheeks. Diversity is our strength! ? https://t.co/Uwoc8hwgAl
— Mark Johnson (@Mark_Johnson80) September 11, 2026
Rome, once the capital of a vast empire, now the toilet of the world.
Migrant openly shitting on the street.
— Canadian Patriot (@PPC4Liberty) May 23, 2024
Rome, Italy.
pic.twitter.com/fel6WSqCTg
Canada is not spared.
Cultural enrichment in Canada means you get to deal with public defecation. pic.twitter.com/nstSF6Jjdw
— Ian Miles (@ianmiles) September 14, 2024
Vancouver's own figures are not a vibe. City data and CTV reporting put faeces removals in the first two months of 2025 at 1,870. 2023 saw 19,900 collections. 2024 still logged 17,670.
#REPORT: Vancouver residents are calling for action as "public defecation in the city reaches new heights," with 1,870 human feces removals taking place in the first two months of 2025 alone. pic.twitter.com/NsuPTFppVk
— Canada Proud (@WeAreCanProud) May 7, 2025
Business groups run "Poop Fairy" patrols because the municipal programme is too slow.
?NEW
— Tablesalt ???? (@Tablesalt13) October 22, 2025
Video surfaces of a bus in Brampton being put out of commission
after someone took a ? on the bus
Why is public defecation 'exploding' in 2025?pic.twitter.com/ElQoE447YZ
The Nigerian government has spent years running campaigns begging its own citizens to stop doing this in public. Billboards, World Toilet Day speeches, a "Clean Nigeria: Use the Toilet" drive. Vice President Kashim Shettima said access to toilets is "about dignity, health, and safety."
Nigerian government in their desperate attempt to stop public defecation has launched a campaign urging #Nigerian man to stop defeacating in public. pic.twitter.com/QOo5QPup0L
— PSAFLIVE (@PSAFLIVE) November 13, 2022
UNICEF has repeatedly placed Nigeria among the world's worst for open defecation, with tens of millions still practising it.
India remains in the same conversation even after Swachh Bharat. The habit did not vanish because a plane ticket was purchased.
Public Defecation - Is a major problem in countries like INDIA and NIGERIA. pic.twitter.com/0PUJETequ5
— Cornbread Mafioso ?? (@Soulful1865) June 13, 2024
The historic town of Cambridge in the UK has already taken the next logical step: if the arrivals prefer squatting and shitting all over the floor, the host city will install facilities to enable just that. Labour-run Cambridge City Council spent nearly £1 million on a Silver Street toilet block that includes squat-style cubicles "preferred by some international visitors," then charges £1 to use them.
Resident Heather Boyd told the BBC: "I certainly think if I'm going to spend £1, I'm not going to squat as well. That is absolutely crazy." Britain spent centuries perfecting the flush toilet. Now taxpayers are paying in order for the third world to squat into a hole.
How culturally enriching. How much these individuals are contributing. The GDP of public health risk, the tourism brochure of a high street that needs pictograms of a squatting figure with a red line through it.
If Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth is meant to reflect London and the UK as it really is, Here's the next statue:
The Gentleman In Blue (Shitting In The Street) - Commissioned by the late Professor Jason Arday. pic.twitter.com/CQptIew9HY
— Mcgregor Mackenzie ??????? (@mcgregormackenz) September 11, 2026
Still, it could be worse. And it is.
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