BBC NEWS | England | London | Council orders Banksy art removal

Struck too much of a raw nerve there have we Banksy?

What does seem a bit odd is the Conservative opposition, having backed David Davis's protest at the ever encroaching 'Big Brother ' state now one of their run City Councils seem to be set to destroy one of the few street/public symbols of that protest.

Go figure as the saying goes!

(From the BBC report)

An artwork by street artist Banksy in central London will be removed to send a message to graffiti artists in the city, a council has decided.

Westminster City Council has ordered a 23ft-high (7m) mural, entitled One Nation Under CCTV, to be removed from a building on Newman Street.

The artist's sketches have sold for thousands of pounds at auctions.

But deputy leader of the council Robert Davis said keeping the mural would mean "condoning" graffiti.

The mural has the words "One Nation Under CCTV" stencilled above two painted people.

One appears to be a child in a red hooded top apparently painting the words, while a police officer holding a camera and a brown dog look on.

BBC NEWS | England | London | Council orders Banksy art removal

and the Times..

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