Touted as being Britain's bossiest town, the small Devon town of Dawlish never fails to tell people what to do. After receiving complaints on the travel website TripAdvisor for the excessive bossy signs, the mayor of Dawlish, Martin Wrigley has pledged to do something about it.
A visitor's trip was spoiled by the number of “passive-aggressive” signs in town. “From the moment I stepped from my parked car I was bombarded with notices telling me to do this and not do that. There are less signs to be found at a top secret military base.”
The mayor of Dawlish said, “I agree with the comments that we have too many negative signs in Dawlish. We will be looking at both reducing the number and writing them in positive terms – for example encouraging visitors to use the duck food that we supply outside our waterfowl enclosure rather than saying don't feed bread to the birds.”
