It seems that the vast majority of people in London are simply
incapable of queuing for buses. The moment one turns up, everyone who
was standing scattered around within ten metres of the stop rushes for
it, blatently bypassing any poor innocents who had the temerity to
form anything like an orderly line next to the stop/under the shelter.

--
Nick Cooper

I couldn't agree more.

I spent a year of my youth (in 1974-5) in a Caribbean country (a former
colonial territory) where we compared unfavourably the inability of people to
queue for buses, despite everything else that was "British" about their
behaviour.

I suspect that their behaviour there now is far more orderly than it now is in
London, such as been the degeneration of behaviour in the Mother Country.

Incidentally, I suspect the standard of their spoken and written English is,
nowadays, far superior too!

Marc.