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Clacton council paint over Banksy when someone complains it's racist
- Thread starter Franks Wild Years
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Mattywerewolf
Well-known member
Excellent article below sums up my thoughts on it better than i can
http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...rict-council-destroyed-immigration?CMP=twt_gu
http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...rict-council-destroyed-immigration?CMP=twt_gu
horshamite
Now Saltdeanite.
- Nov 16, 2010
- 468
GT49er
Well-known member
Clacton council? That's in Essex, isn't it?
No more to say.......................
No more to say.......................
Superphil
Dismember
Maybe their public services department was just cleaning up graffiti, like they normally do.
http://www.tendringdc.gov.uk/community/crime-community-safety/report-anti-social-behaviour
http://www.tendringdc.gov.uk/community/crime-community-safety/report-anti-social-behaviour
melias shoes
Well-known member
- Oct 14, 2010
- 4,830
You really could NOT make that up. 
sir albion
New member
Beautiful migrant swallow? lol
Send it back I say
Send it back I say
Spun Cuppa
Thanks Greens :(
As a piece of art, it should now be priceless. A 'Banksy-ed' Banksy is the sort of concept the Turner Prize judges would cream their collective Calvins over, as a piece of detournement 
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Satire too subtle for them?
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 35,292
what garbage, councils routinely destroy Banksy and others artist if its on their property, lest they are seen to allow graffiti. frankly its a good thing too, otherwise some places would be coverd by immitators and the style would lose its cache.
i dont believe that had a single complaint about it, its just a daft excuse.
albion534
Well-known member
fat old seagull
New member
I can't recall a single Banksy being destroyed by any council anywhere, never mind routinely.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
I can't recall a single Banksy being destroyed by any council anywhere, never mind routinely.
Bristol council had a big dispute with a youth club as to who actually owned a Banksy. It was then donated to the youth club by Banksy himself.
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 35,292
I can't recall a single Banksy being destroyed by any council anywhere, never mind routinely.
tower hamlets, camden, islington, bristol have all painted over or power washed Banksy and similar artists work. i recal a story of one where the council removed one that was actually on private property and the owner sued them.
Gullys Cats
Sausage by the sea!!!
Hes ironic not rascist.
looney
Banned
- Jul 7, 2003
- 15,652
Hark at all the chardonnay slurping middle class gaurdian reading snobs sneering at clacton.
The two faced article begins,
From Bristol to New York, this street artist has made his reputation by wittily mocking power and money.
Yes but this is neither power or money, more like poor people worried about a flood of cheap labour but dressed up by the grauniadistas as racism.
A good comment on the page sums it up,
"The trouble is that Banksy has failed to understand that the English poor aren't afraid of foreigners at all. They're afraid of living in poverty and being homeless due to the huge influx of people from eastern Europe who are prepared to work for a pittance and live 10 to a house in areas of already limited housing. English workers accustomed to higher living standards don't want to be part of a race to the bottom. This is what most middle class Guardian contributors don't understand."
FTR I dont see the artwork as racist. I see it as rude, patronising, condesending and political. Deserved to be scrubbed.
The two faced article begins,
From Bristol to New York, this street artist has made his reputation by wittily mocking power and money.
Yes but this is neither power or money, more like poor people worried about a flood of cheap labour but dressed up by the grauniadistas as racism.
A good comment on the page sums it up,
"The trouble is that Banksy has failed to understand that the English poor aren't afraid of foreigners at all. They're afraid of living in poverty and being homeless due to the huge influx of people from eastern Europe who are prepared to work for a pittance and live 10 to a house in areas of already limited housing. English workers accustomed to higher living standards don't want to be part of a race to the bottom. This is what most middle class Guardian contributors don't understand."
FTR I dont see the artwork as racist. I see it as rude, patronising, condesending and political. Deserved to be scrubbed.
clapham_gull
Legacy Fan
- Aug 20, 2003
- 25,301
I can't recall a single Banksy being destroyed by any council anywhere, never mind routinely.
Er I can.
I've never understood the fascination with him. It's hardly clever is it ?
I tend to agree with Charlie Brooker in that his work looks dazzlingly clever to idiots.
One Nation under CCTV - was he the last to notice ?
fat old seagull
New member
Not sure what that's got to do with my post ?
All I stated was I'd not heard of any other council that had destroyed a Banksy. Which is true, I hadn't.
What Banksy gets up to isn't my business I neither support or condemn his work. I do however think it's surprising that the Council as they now concur obliterated something that would have been a considerable attraction to their promenade. All because someone was unable to decode the irony of the pic and actually destroyed something that was anti-racist.
keaton
Big heart, hot blood and balls. Big balls
- Nov 18, 2004
- 9,648
He would know ( I like Charlie Brooker)