This weird attempt to try and smear Banksy only highlights that the MoJ spent an absolute fortune washing a bit of paint off a wall from an artist much loved by most people.

[englram@troet.cafe]

@TheBreadmonkey
Meanwhile, people in #Turku #Finnland ( #Suomi ) pay an entrance fee to see his art:

https://www.mystery-banksy.fi/en/

Paying a fortune to remove a probably valuable piece of art seems to be part of what the artist intended to demonstrate - unappropriate application of power.

[fourt4@mastodonapp.uk]

@bencurthoys @TheBreadmonkey can someone tell them I'd have a go for £140,000.

[torf@c.im]

@TheBreadmonkey "is likely to reignite debate over whether Banksy's work is vandalism or valuable public art"
I believe the only question that should be reignited in such case is efficiency of spending the taxpayers money.

[cyberquixote@infosec.exchange]

@TheBreadmonkey they’re butthurt and they should be because an artist is doing a better job pointing out their shortcomings than they are

[icooiey@mastodon.green]

@TheBreadmonkey Now show the amount of £ generated by tourism to see Banksy art?

[luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@TheBreadmonkey Taxpayers are really lucky, that such a ridicule expense brings in return so fine and timely art pieces.

[akamran@indieweb.social]

@TheBreadmonkey @trending they could have CHARGED ADMISSION TO SEE IT ffs (sorry for yelling)

[quietewe@urbanists.social]

@TheBreadmonkey On a street art tour in London, we passed a Banksy piece that the city had covered with plexiglass to preserve it…because they know Banksy’s work draws valuable tourism. I wonder what’s so different about piranhas on a police box or a magister beating a protester on a court wall I just can’t figure it out

(Also, they’re including £60k for *protecting* a different piece in that £150k?? Why does a statue need a security guard?)

[dtm@mastodon.cc]

@TheBreadmonkey @eco_amandine

Read the room just a little better. We like Banksy and don’t have any faith in the MoJ.

[nickiquote@mstdn.social]

@TheBreadmonkey My Aunt Dolly woulda done it for nuffink.

[jaypeach53@calckeymusic.social]

@Akki@toot.lgbt @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party IDK, the current British government sure seems fascist to me as an American dissident.

[houba@spore.social]

@TheBreadmonkey

If an organisation spends £85k to remove approx 2msq of paint from a stone building, people should be asking serious questions of their competence.

If that organisation is the MoJ, people should also ask if the organisation understands the intent of habeas corpus.

[bluebrogues@social.vivaldi.net]

@dtm @TheBreadmonkey @eco_amandine Ministry of Injustice . Fuckin terrorist Granny's . They will be the death o the Injustice department

[bluebrogues@social.vivaldi.net]

@TheBreadmonkey The Westminster Government spent £150 000 Destroying Masterpieces

[christo_459@mastodon.me.uk]

@BashStKid @TheBreadmonkey
Part of the problem is confusing Jewish folk with Zionists. Most religious Jews are anti-Zionists, the government in Israel by and large are not religious and are Zionists. Outside of that you don't have to be jewish to be a Zionist.
Zionism is a movement of colonial land grabbing and extermination of the indigenous

[evoscale@c.im]

@TheBreadmonkey So planting a food chain by his work, justifies breathtaking art?..

[ultrasonicmadness@mastodon.me.uk]

@TheBreadmonkey I now understand why the people who don't like him feel that way. What a senseless waste of everyone's time. I'm quite sure that if I drew No Love Deep Web all over public buildings, no less a court of law, the authorities would quite rightly have some questions for me.

[davidbcohen@twit.social]

@TheBreadmonkey Says more about the efficiency of public spending than anything else, tbh.

[jmcclure@sciences.social]

@TheBreadmonkey

Banksy's art is free.

Real title: Bristol spends nearly £150k of taxpayer money to destroy artwork without cause.

[skye@mstdn.social]

@TheBreadmonkey I'm not sure this was taken down yet. Took the photo a few weeks ago.