“Three artworks by street artist Banksy have cost taxpayers almost £150,000 in cleaning operations and security so far, with the bill expected to rise.
The largest single cost relates to a mural painted on the Royal Courts of Justice in September 2025, where removal efforts and security have so far cost more than £85,000.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) says it has spent £50,000 trying to remove paint from the wall of the Grade II-listed building in Carey Street. A further £35,300 was spent on overtime and security costs.”
How about making the sobbing social justice warrior millionaire shithouse cunt foot the bill for his left wing twee spray can mess?
Aerosol arsepiss Oven.
Nominated by Unkle Terry.
You could build a new wall for 50 grand.
Who comes up with these figures?
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Exactly. Like the new front door for the palace of westminster that cost a billion quid or something.
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That could be because they want to use the huge golden arse that some weirdo woke artist produced a few years ago. Members entering the back door seems appropriate what.
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Further info re the golden arse, created by British artist Anthea Hamilton. Title “Project for a door” ( after Gaetano Pesce) The magnificent arse is 18 ft tall and is the representation of a graphic designers arse with his hands parting his cheeks. Think it may have been considered for the Turner prize in 2016. The other choice of door was cans of shit by some deluded American
Let’s the stars of art shine bright and true there’s always some cunt willing to buy from you.
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Wasn’t there some cunt ( sorry artist ) gaffer taped a banana skin to a wall and sold it for some ridiculous sum?
Honestly, I despair!
A fool and his money, etc. springs to mind.
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companies put in tenders and inflate the prices knowing that the twats overlooking it are willing to fritter money away like Viv Nichols.
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You could get a few homeless people to clean the shit off the wall for a couple of cans of beer.
50 fucking grand?
And why does it need security guards?
It’s not like anyone can nick it.
The link says that cunt Banksy makes artwork affordable to see by the masses.
It talks about saving money on gallery expenses.
I didn’t think that galleries charged an entrance fee.
They certainly didn’t the last time that I visited one.
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I was shocked at the state of the verges near me. Never really noticed it before, but stuck in traffic gave me a good look. Why the fuck aren’t those on bennies or the fucking lazy immos not put to work clearing it up?
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Their ” human rights” m’lord.
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M’ Lord C another factor taken into account re bennies and crims litter picking on verges etc was the horrendous cost of all the Health and Safety which would need to be carried out before lazy cunt/ car thief were given their hi vis overalls and litter picks, plus the supervision of said pickers, transport, first aid training ad infinitum and as UT stated in his post uman rights act would very likely scupper any attempt to get something back from the cunts unusual punishment, private life and family all the bollocks would be exploited.
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There ought to be an investigation into how those ludicrous numbers came about. But it would probably take 3 months and cost £375,000..
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send him the bill.
His names Robin and he’s a posh middle aged twat from Bristol.
he’s a multimillionaire anarchist
he can afford it.
sort of like his picture though.
a judge beating a protester with his gavel.
if only.
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Couldn’t robins face be used as a brillo pad, to remove the graffiti from the wall.
Worth a try in my eyes..
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Should make the fucker lick it off.
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If Banksy wanted to be brave, he’d stencil (not ‘proper’ art, is it? Fucking stencilling. Don’t recall any of Constable’s beautiful paintings being stencilled) an underage girl being sexually assaulted by a gang of fat pakıs or a woman with a halfrican baby and no father in sight.
I know this isn’t the point of the nom, but fuck Banksy. Oh, and fuck Damien Hurst too, while we’re at it.
And fuck the whole world of pretentious art nonsense.
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& curl a giant turd in Tracy Emin’s bed.
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Been done
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist%27s_Shit
Pretentious- moi?
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Primary school-level stencilling by the two blokes he employs while Gunningham sits back and counts the money.
A couple of suggestions –
1. A white couple being robbed of their Rolexes by a pair of knife-wielding sambós on a wall in Notting Hell.
2. An Israeli girl tied to a tree being gang raped by 5 Hamas jihadis then stabbed to death. Stencil it on Gary Linekunt’s house.
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Tattoo it on his forehead.
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I’ve got an original ‘Rolf Harris’ hanging on my wall,Thomas.
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But surely TCE a rotting shark in a tank of formaldehyde is a cutting statement of the penetration of bollocks that has infested this country.
An apt monument to the the times albeit 40 years ago.
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As Jim Royle once said “Stencil my arse”
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His artwork looks like a paint by numbers project.
Basically, it’s shit.
Proof is in the fact that he has to post videos of him doing the work to verify that it’s his.
Anyone could forge it.
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Banksy is the type of twat who has dinner parties.
eats hummus.
wears vegan doc martens
gives his kids oddball names
wears Palestinian neck rags
and weeps in butchers shops.
Go to Middlesbrough.
do some artwork there,
the local kids are lovely and will carry your stencils from the range rover for you Robin…
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The authorities are missing a trick here.
They should build a screen round it and charge people to come and look at it.
No photos ( unless you slip security a £20 ).
It’d piss Banksy off and cover the costs.
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How about converting said “art work” to the back wall of a urinal, remember them trough at bottom of walll, usually painted black. You could sign your name and things. Sometime a local character would be sprawled along the trough having collapsed due to over dose of booze or something else or in one memorable case dead from a massive stroke. A fitting place for a cunty stencil
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Got to say I don’t think his artwork is rubbish some of it i like.
its him I dislike.
poseur.
he did a copy of Constables ‘the haywain’
but with those mounted cctv cameras on the banks and discarded shopping trolleys in the river.
I thought that was good.
and I’m probably right.
being a leading authority on art and winner of the Arday award for art critics.
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I’d like the winner of the Turner prize for modern bullshit to (once the money is safely in their account) come out and admit their ‘piece’ which won was a load of crap they’d invented in ten minutes and thanks for the £25000, suckers!
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in Norfolk its the Turnip prize.
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Miserable Graham-Dixon, art historian and arty farty know-it-all.
Sir, as an art expert of renown, may I ask you to enlighten us with your considered opinion of Tracey Emin’s vulva?
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of course dear boy,
Tracy’s clopper is like a delightful little rosebud made from velvet.
probably a virgin?
because her kite is something that’d make the Predator spew up in revulsion.
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just wondering if other posters on ISAC have artwork hanging on the walls at home?
id guess most have ‘dogs playing pool,’
or ‘crying boy in a blue jumper?’
maybe a tennis player itching her arse?
I of course have a virtual feast for the eyes ,
almost a gallery of art hanging up.
Large canvases by a photographer of winnats pass and kinder scout.
I should charge a admittance fee.
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I’ve got a stencilled pic on my garage door of Amber Heard taking a big shit on Johnny Depp’s pillow.
Passers-by have been known to stop and have an emergency streetwank in front of it.
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Like that time you got nicked for public masturbation in front of the Alison Lapper Pregnant statue on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, Cunt Engine.
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You’re only partially correct, LL…I actually bored a hole in it and installed a fleshlight late the previous night prior to the main event.
Alison Lapper is actually 70% sealion. She should go the whole hog and get prosthetic flippers attached.
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Didn’t some so called artist display his modern art shite in the Tate and cunts we’re falling over themselves to buy his latest creation only to tell them it was his three year old son who scribbled it
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The problem here is 1% some not very talented art and 99% some cunt in the council who can run up a £50k bill scrubbing graffiti off a fucking wall. Other peoples money syndrome.
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Is that like Down’s syndrome, but for socialists?
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Banksy is a cunt.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-53949831
Time he was arrested and forced to pay costs for all his vandalism.
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If he was ffaaaaarrrr right, he would be
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Pablo Picasso would’ve twatted the cunt.
Good morning.
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Picasso was a visionary.
He forsaw that people with more money than sense would pay any kind of silly money for ‘art’.
If you ever get the chance, go to the Picasso museum. They’ve got the magnificent motor he drove his dead missus round town in!
Not to mention lobster shaped telephones.
I so wanted one.
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Wanksy is a far left cunt, bought and paid for by a likely coalition of Labia and the BBC.
Plus the name ‘Banksy’ just sounds extremely twatty, like a Guardianesque attempt to come up with a ‘working class’ sounding nickname.
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Art for art’s sake, easy money for fucks sake 🎵…he must piss himself over his avocado on sourdough every morning at the fawning goons regarding his latest creation…oooh Isabella the latest banksy is lush, oooh I know he’s super on point dahling…pass the tofu 😒
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Hey Mis, imagine how much your Country Cream gates would be worth if Banksy stenciled a rapey migrant on them?
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id set the dog on him LL.
I glanced out the window and saw some middle class southern Nancy shaking a aerosol can and staring at my gate with ill intent he’d rue the day.
As the dog gentle shredded his arse id introduce Robin to a relaxing massage with a lump hammer.
can’t abide gate desecrators.
On his shallow grave up Saddleworth id leave his arse stuck out the ground and spray paint it green ,
and it could be a local landmark for lost hikers to get their bearings
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I would happily staple a raped migrant to you gates gratis
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Autocorrect bollocks,rapey not raped though that would make a pleasant diversion from the norm
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It’s only £50 K, or £85 K, who cares it’s not real money, it’s socialist Money from that tree.
Scrubbing paint off a wall, isn’t that the sort of thing unemployed benefits mob could do.
Arrest the Banksy cunt and confiscate all his assets, especially his Halfords loyalty card.
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Halfords loyalty card. Yeah I bet the cunt’s a cyclist too. Very urban
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If I was identified spraying graffiti on public buildings I would be prosecuted and fined.
PROSECUTE THE CUNT…!
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Of course you would Doc, you’d be up before the beak first thing in the morning. He is smart enough to have got into a position where he is untouchable. Reminds me of the old wisecrack; If you owe the bank £1,000 you’ve got a problem. If you owe the bank £1,000,000 it’s the bank’s problem.
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Absolutely, Doc.
Or if they can’t nick him, at least identify and arrest his minions who go out and do the vandalism.
I just cannot understand why he and his firm are untouchable.
Mind you. The fatsos probably still believe the media lie that he’s mysteriously anonymous and nobody knows for sure who he is.
Whatever. It’s either incompetence, laziness or someone is being told not to rock the boat.
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I loathe these loaded lefty cunts with a passion & my wish for the likes of this Banksy cunt, is that they get massively swindled by some conman & lose all their wealth.
Let see how fucking left wing they are when they’re grubbing around for a quid. And that fucking boat he’s funded should unload all the human filth it dredges out of the Med & have it shipped directly to wherever he lives.
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Suggestion for Westminster council regarding Waterloo Place;
Remove the guards. Remove the fences. Remove the statue and post the video of it’s destruction on Youtube.
Oh and fuck Estelle Lovatt with the ragman’s trumpet.
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Yes Arfur, encourage the public to come & piss on it would seem the apposite thing to do.
As for Lovatt: just another over-educated nonsense spouter. I’ll decide if I like a piece of art & I don’t need some upper middle class overpaid ‘expert’ telling me whether I should appreciate something or not. Just fuck off.
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Why can’t crime and vandalism be punished anymore?
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https://share.google/CW3PMgBTRQ177zc5F
Now that’s art.
titled ‘ old Chinky’ by Rolf Harris.
I went for a private viewing in my early 20s.
for some reason it was a “swimwear only”
viewing.
“can ya tell what it is yet?” Rolf asked me.
“yes,” I replied
” its your hand on my bollocks’
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Bet he was pissed off when he didn’t get the lead in Fiddler on the roof, bedroom, stairs, toilet, swimming pool.
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How come this banksy bloke seems to know where he can’t be seen on CCTV. Then it must be an inside job on the outside.
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You can’t drop a cigarette end in London and not be identified, Sammy.
Unless you know the right people, obviously.
My mates daughter was recently hospitalised after a hit and run in east London and the driver was appeared to be a park key.
This was in a busy street full of takeaways and restaurants, yet the fatsos reckon the CCTV was inconclusive.
Yeah. Of course it was.
Cunts.
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I am the proud owner of a valuable piece of street art. A tumescent cock and hairy ballsack painted onto the side of our garage.
I’ve told the Bolshevik Bellend Collective that I’m convinced it’s a Banksy and therefore worth millions, Look out for me in the next series of Fake or Fortune when Phil, Fiona and I will traverse the globe trying to piece together its story. I’ll be getting all expenses paid trips to New York, Sydney and Paris as they investigate whether or not it’s authentic.
Keep this to yourselves, but I have my doubts. I think it might be too good for a Gunningham.
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If it wasn’t for the BBC, Banksy would’ve drifted into obscurity years ago.
They are absolutely obsessed with him.
Read that article in full and you’ll see it gradually morph into an apologist defence of his vandalism via the spurious and unproven claim that his murals enhance tourism.
Like London and Bristol would see a dramatic drop in hospitality revenue if he and his graffiti didn’t exist.
Oh fuck off!
There is simply no justification for his activities and there’s absolutely no justification for the BBC to continue to promote his vandalism of public and private properties.
Grow up, you cunts!
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If Leonardo had painted the Mona Lisa on the wall of his local pissoir, the Banksy wanker would have sketched a badly drawn penis pointing toward her mouth and have been declared a genius by the left.
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Good morning, everyone.
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Tony Hart didn’t abuse public spaces with his art.
no.
he was a proper gentleman.
you can always trust a man in a cravat to behave impeccably.
Rolf Harris did vandalise stuff.
but only in Australia
Neil Buchanan was a scouser and you can bet that cunt did vandalism!!
probably a few burglarys and a bit of shoplifting too.
on the whole artists are puddled
cutting their ears off for attention
and not making their beds.
Veermeer used to shit in his neighbours garden.
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I wouldn’t mind sniffing around Scarlett Johansson’s unmade bed, preferably with her still in it.
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