@AndrewHWestern You cannot criticise ANYONE when you voted against the Jan 2025 Conservative Amendment into Grooming gangs
You voted AGAINST indefinite leave to remain for spouses or dependants of serving or discharged member of the armed forces
Banksy didnβt just blind the man with the flag. He gave him the confidence to stride anyway.
This isnβt the usual 'patriotism makes you stupid' jab everyone keeps repeating.
Look at the suit, the plinth, the imperial corridor of Waterloo Place... this is the modern power suit, the bureaucrat, CEO, politician, stepping off the very pedestal society built for him.
The flag doesnβt slow him.
It gives him momentum he never questions.
Banksyβs point is quieter: we donβt fall because weβre blind. We fall because weβve convinced ourselves the flag is our eyes.
Every empire, every movement, every 'greater cause' started exactly like this with faceless momentum.
The sculpture isnβt mocking the marcher. Itβs mourning the moment he mistook the wind for wisdom.
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