A tragic tree intended to spread festive cheer has been described as “depressing”, “anti-Christmas”, and “only marginally better than hell”.
While only November, the first Christmas trees for the season have popped up across the UK signalling the festive season is just around the corner.
Although some have succeeded in spreading Christmas cheer, Brits have been quick to slag off some of the limp twigs and avant garde structures that have have been passed off as the festive season’s most important symbol.
Perhaps Britain’s saddest Christmas tree is the sorry spruce sitting in a red plastic tub barricaded behind a blue barrier at London’s Euston Station.
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Decorated in gold baubles and ornaments, the underwhelming tree looks scrappy and small, despite standing at 180cm tall, in its less than festive setting.
Talk TV’s Chuck Thomas papped the pathetic-looking pine, sharing a picture of it on X with the caption: “This will get everyone in the Christmas spirit.” And folk were quick to agree, with equally cutting, but hilarious, comments
“This can only be one station – Euston. Can that hellhole get any more depressing?,” one person commented while another slammed the tree, saying: “Euston Christmas is only marginally better than hell.”
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A third person quipped that “nothing says peace and goodwill quite like a plastic barricade”, while another wrote: “So much worse than no tree. This is an anti-Christmas tree.”
Another Brit joked that it would “be nice for those who’ve spent Christmas in prison”.
Another landmark Christmas tree to cop a beating is the garish prism in the nearby Granary Square. TikToker Ellen in Wonderland shared her thoughts on the structure saying, “I don’t get it, what is is?,” in a recent video.
The people in the comments section were equally baffled by the structure, with one person saying that “it looks like it was made on Microsoft paint”, while another likened it to “when you were bored in school and just messing around with all the highlighters in your pencil case”.
A third person was slightly more positive about it, saying that they didn’t mind it but said it was “giving neon masking tape”.
While another asked: “Who approved this?”
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