Beautiful Britain magazine commissioned a poll to find Britain's biggest eyesores.

Coming second in the list of cringe-worthy landmarks was Battersea Power Station on the south bank of the River Thames. The brick-clad, unused coal-fired building, which has seen numerous failed redevelopments, beat M1 Service Stations – like Watford Gap – into third place.

Is this for real? Hang on, though, a moment, and look at what beat it into first...

Concrete carriageways, like the Spaghetti Junction in Birmingham came top in a poll of structures and buildings that blight the UK landscape.

At the Rat and Mouse, I'm often made to feel like an outsider for my love of everything 20th Century, and particularly post-war 20th Century... but, Jeez, have you ever seen Spaghetti Junction from above? Would it really be any more beautiful if it was just a field... a green pixelation on a Googlemap?

And, wait, wind farms comes in at Number 4... those fabulously futuristically innocent monuments to sustainability and human ingenuity. There's a favourite landmarks list, too. Guess what tops it? Bloody Big Ben, with Buckingham Palace (all the beauty of a Stalinist detention centre) at Number 7, and the White Cliffs of Dover (officially, spare me!) at Number 3. Who are these awful people who voted? Did the polling survey company deliberately seek out the worst of unthinking Middle England? They should all be gathered up and made to live here. (Press release, here.)

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