“As I strolled along Heath Mill Lane towards Eastside Projects, I was confronted with a billboard that offended me in so many ways … that billboard in Heath Mill Lane that was very cynically trying to pander to us at our most vulnerable and negative and not to our better selves … This billboard not only offended me morally and aesthetically it also went against everything that I feel political discourse should be about.
“Thus there was nothing for it, after my train pulled into Moor Street, I picked up my last remaining tins of Drummond’s International Grey and got to work.”
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Nor is Drummond alone. As Glaswegian rapper
tom dissonance recently posted on
Twitter, Ukip are “certainly showing that grassroots art vandalism is alive and well in this country.”
A dedicated Tumblr blog,
Destroyed Ukip Billboards, has even sprung up to exhibit the best examples.
I have a soft spot for this Stezaker-esque collage, which seems to transform Farage’s party’s simple-minded far-right populism into an obscure metaphysical enquiry…
Keep up the good work.
