Tourist slams UK as 'tatty' and 'grim' blaming Tories for 'disgraceful' run-down areas

A tourist has left the UK arguing that it "looks and feels like a poor country". Alison Montijin, who lives in the Netherlands, has come away from several visits to Britain feeling like it is "shocking." She said: "Everything’s tatty. Dysfunctional, high streets boarded up, trains and buses no shows, broken machines, signs of decay and poverty everywhere. It doesn’t have to be like that." Although she conceded that there are "pockets of loveliness" in the country, such as parts …