12 Reasons Why London Is The Worst At Christmas Time

3. Christmas Shopping Takes Up Whole Seats On Public Transport

Christmas shopping has to be done but why do people visit London and do it all at once? Poor Londoners on their way home have to share tube space with bright-eyed shoppers holding their own body weight in carrier bags and sometimes with huge pre-wrapped presents, which get their own tube seat in place of real paying customers. A London dweller who has had a busy day at work definitely deserves a seat on public transport over your niece's life-size One Direction doll. Or so you'd think.