Banksy let loose inflatable boat with dummy migrants at Glastonbury Idles set

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1. > Banksy has a rich history with the festival. He designed the Union flag-emblazoned stab-proof vest worn by Stormzy during his 2019 Pyramid stage headline set, and in 2014 he commandeered a livestock transportation van that drove around the site with cuddly toys emerging from it. The site has also hosted a number of the artist’s classic stencil artworks, including one in 2010 that made a reappearance in 2022 to mark the festival’s 50th anniversary.

   > Migration is a big theme at this year’s Glastonbury. A new area, Terminal 1 asks people coming in to answer a question from the UK government’s citizenship test. Inside is music by representatives from Notting Hill carnival and others.

   > Banksy has long-established links with Glastonbury. He designed the Union flag-emblazoned stab-proof vest worn by Stormzy during his 2019 Pyramid stage headline set, while the site has also hosted several of his artworks.

   When you’re not at the minimum word count for your essay so try to repeat yourself.

2. Unrealistic number of women and children on that boat

3. I’m sure banksy lives with “refugees” and not some all white gated estate somewhere.

4. Let’s see his taxes before we get lectured on immigration

5. I think Glastonbury should, as a display of solidarity, let 1,000 randomly selected channel migrants in and give them a few hundred quid to have fun with.

   I’m sure it wouldn’t cause any issues. They’d nearly all be women and children for one, and if they can skip border checks it shouldn’t be a problem for them to skip security.

6. Idles also led the Glastonbury crowd in chanting “f*** the king”, said their last song was an “an anti-fascist song, anti-Farage song”, and got the crowd to chant “ceasefire now” in relation to the war in Gaza.

7. The video of this looked completely tasteless.

   Not sure what they’re thinking

8. Poor desperate people fleeing the horrors of France and continental Europe! The humanity!

9. I don’t get it, do they support migrants or are they making fun of their perilous journeys? Children die on these journeys and it’s a bit of fun for the ‘Glasto’ crowd?

10. while they are surrounded by high fences and security to keep the poors out

11. I thought it would be some cringey person like that. All we need is another Corbyn speech about how nuclear weapons are bad and NATO is bad. Nasty traitor.

12. The state of this sub, I bet you all have posters of Farage and Tonny ~~Robinson~~ Yaxley-Lennon.