Banksy Slave Labour mural up for auction again

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Permalink Reply by Takaokagiejin on May 11, 2013 at 14:09

The website says "Sincura group, your gateway to a VIP life", for £95 a month you are VIP enough to go to the auction and have the chance to spend £450,000 on something we all had for free in Wood Green.  That makes us the VIPs as we got there first and didn't need to buy our way in.

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Permalink Reply by matt on May 11, 2013 at 14:40

And here's Sincura's Banksy event blurb. The company's 'About' page starts with, 'The Sincura Group started as a secret organisation open buildings and access through our unique networks.' ( ?! )

HQ seems to be based at a Manor house near Wokingham. Tony Baxter is the CEO. Clearly Tony is a well connected individual according to Haute Living, which has plenty there about him. Of course Sincura is merely providing the event in which the piece is to be sold and they have sold Banksy pieces before.

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Permalink Reply by Takaokagiejin on May 11, 2013 at 14:47

Reminds me of this chap  http://www.davenporttrust.com/

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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on May 11, 2013 at 16:09

Please tell me that's not a real person!

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Permalink Reply by Protheroe O'Shea on May 11, 2013 at 16:15

Very real and very really in prison for 8 years .

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Permalink Reply by StephenBln on May 11, 2013 at 17:44

You made into German TV back then.. perhaps again..?

http://www.tagesschau.de/videoblog/london_calling/banksy110.html

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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on May 11, 2013 at 22:15

Ah Jaysus no! Not again!  "Return our Banksy" T-shirts (Genuine Dhaka or is it Dakar) at 25p from Primark. 99 HOL discussion pages booked up already by the artyfartyheartsonkeyboard crowd. Let me remigrate to real life somewhere south of the Sahara or Bangladesh.

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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on May 12, 2013 at 13:36

Last night I had the strangest dream
I'd never dreamed at night
That Claire and Joe and Lynne agreed
To paint their houses white

For Kober, Goldberg, Featherstone
I dreamed their walls and roofs
Had ladders propped around each one
As artists stencilled truths

And as the colours dripped and spread
Great masterpieces sprayed
The politicians bowed their head
And grateful pray'rs were prayed

“We give you art. Now give us votes.”
The Pols begged Haringey
And laughter rose from many throats
“We weren’t born yesterday.”

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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on May 12, 2013 at 22:05

"Why miss ME out?" young Lammy cried,

"Or treat my tweets as jokes?

Elect my chiaroscuro side -

That's black-on-white, like papal holy smokes."                                                                                                          

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