Although most Londoners will not be able to vote in the American presidential primaries, a Lambeth pub has come up with a novel way for punters to show their support – or derision - by installing pictures of candidates in the toilets.
The images of the Republican front-runners are in facilities of The Three Stags in Kennington all week, as part of a "piss poll" for TV satire show The Last Leg.
Since Friday customers have been able to choose whether to use the Donald Trump, Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio urinal, and log their vote on a tick sheet on the wall afterwards, with the votes due to be counted this Friday.
Anyone who wishes to relieve themselves without making a political statement can opt to use the normal urinals on either side instead.
And the urinals have gone down so well among customers that staff from the TV show have been back today to install similar cut-outs in the women’s and disabled toilets.
Owner Richard Bell said he was approached by the show and was more than happy to accommodate the unusual request.
He told the Standard: “It was completely random, they had this idea and one of the guys used to live near me, near the pub, they picked me completely at random.
“They’ve gone down very well, there have been lots of hilarious tweets, customers love them, even the Americans enjoy it.”
Mr Bell said the idea is not to vote for the candidate that you want to win, but for your least favourite, and he said Trump is clearly the most unpopular.
He said: “Obviously Trump’s winning, 90 per cent of people, including me, pee in Trump’s mouth every time.
“It’s who you dislike, the least popular, who you’d want to pee in the mouth of.
“People were tweeting us saying why can’t we get them in the ladies' and in the disabled, and so now everyone can vote with their pee.”
Mr Bell said there are no plans to allow punters to vote for Democrat candidates, saying the stunt was more to highlight the “lunacy” of the Republican race.
“It’s just a bit of fun about the shock horror of the lunacy of the Republicans,” he said.
“The Donald Trump thing, and I think Ted Cruz is crazy as well. How unbelievable that America could actually have people like Trump being in that position in the first place.
“Excuse the pun but it’s taking the piss out of how unbelievably crass the whole thing is.”
Mr Bell said he had only received one negative comment, from an American customer.
He said: “She said ‘sort out your own politics first, you’re doing things much worse than we are’, but if Donald Trump became president of the U.S. that would affect all of us.”
