Banksy’s refugee art at Glastonbury is criticized by a British minister: – Unacceptable

– People die in the Mediterranean, people die in the English Channel. This is not funny, it’s disgusting, says James Cleverly Sky News.

He calls Banksy’s inflatable stunt “unacceptable”, three days before Britons go to the polls in an election where the Conservative ruling party has made migration a key campaign issue.

Banksy is known for using his art to comment on current political events and has tackled refugee issues several times in the past.

– Hypocrisy

When asked if Banksy might have meant to point out the British authorities’ problems in stopping the record number of migrant boats crossing the channel, Cleverly, who therefore belongs to the Conservative Party, responds by taking a broadside against the British Labor Party.

– The left’s hypocrisy in this case is fantastic and joking about it, and celebrating it at a pop festival when there have been children dying in the canal, is completely unacceptable.

It was in the middle of a concert with the band Idles at the weekend’s giant British festival Glastonbury that an inflatable rubber boat was sent out into the sea of ​​audience – who brought it forward on outstretched arms.

In the rubber boat sat dolls representing refugees. The anonymous street artist Banksy claims the work, reported BBC Monday. He has posted a movie of the incident on his Instagram account, which he usually does when he wants to announce that he is behind a work.

Tribute song

The raft was sent out over the crowd just as Idles played his song “Danny Nedelko”. The song is described as a tribute to diversity, refugees and multiculturalism, as well as criticism of the way the right-wing handles the issue.

It begins with the words “My blood brother is an immigrant, a beautiful immigrant”, and many thought it was part of the punk band’s stage show.

A spokesperson for Idles informs The Guardian that they were not aware that the raft stunt was to take place during their performance.

Precisely migration was according the newspaper a main theme of this year’s Glastonbury Festival, which devoted a separate area to the question.