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Scrubbing away Banksy's artwork has only made its message more powerful | The Standard
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It was sprayed on the side of a Grade 1 listed building. Of course it was sprayed, it legally has to be.
The image could've depicted six-pack Starmer riding a T-rex out of a burning building saving 10 orphans, and it would still have been sprayed (not that Starmer had any input in the property management of the building)
Banksy isn't stupid. He purposely chose a location where it would be sprayed, and used staining paints for some parts of the composition for exactly this reason.