Parks and defecation: am I the only one poo-poohing this dog mess ‘strategy’? | Jules Howard

Tory MP and self-appointed faecal tsar Anne Main is tired of seeing blue poo-bags festooning the nation’s trees. But I’m just tired of being told what to do

I confess that I hadn’t heard of Anne Main, the Tory MP for St Albans, until today, but I feel like I know her now. I have just watched a video of her four times in a row talking about dog faeces, so now I feel like I’ll have a hard time forgetting her.

Main took her moment in Tuesday’s Westminster debate about the issue of dog faeces masterfully, calling the practice of hanging little blue plastic bags of dog poo on branches “disgusting”, and suggesting that we should perhaps do what the Forestry Commission suggests, and get a stick and “flick” dog faeces into the undergrowth.

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