Banksy hits Big Ben

Newsflash: Buccaneering graffiti ghost Banksy has outraged the establishment once again as Londoners woke up early this morning to see his cheeky Halloween handiwork on one of the city’s most iconic monuments: Big Ben.

‘From clockface to cockface!’ tweets one online supporter, as a vampire Prime Minister, fangs ‘dripping with the blood of the people’, now peers across the Thames – yet how Banksy executed his most shocking art mission since turning Rio’s Christ the Redeemer into Osama Bin Laden still remains unclear

“I can rule out the use of a helicopter,” said a visibly shaken head of Parliamentary Security, D.I. Steven Fincham. “We are currently checking CCTV footage, the assumption being that he either managed to scale the tower itself, or enter the actual building then exit through one of the maintenance doors to gain access to the clockface.”

As usual with this graffiti maverick, requests for comment have met with a wall of silence.

“I think it’s an absolute bloody disgrace,” fumed Mayor Boris Johnson.

“First he draws a pair of balls on No. 10, now this. It is a criminal act and should be punished as such. I reject absolutely the notion that this is some kind of harmless Halloween prank. He has outraged a historic landmark, which no British citizen has the right to do, unless that landmark is in Germany. Or France. Or Argentina. Or Wales. Or any of those places where they speak funny.”

Story: Jasper Gibson

Image: Q4Nobody