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Now, the Labour Party likes to paint Nigel Farage as a plastic patriot
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but cop-load of this. Yes, it's the plasticine Chancellor. And I'm joined by the artist himself now, Wilfred Wood
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who's certainly got the nation talking. Wilfred, welcome to the show. A pleasure to have you again
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But your mighty work adorns our screens there, and there's a certain uncanny likeness to the Chancellor
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Tell us what inspired you to sculpt her. Well, she's obviously a big sort of public figure
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and she's so incredibly dull and it's quite interesting to try and make an interesting sculpture
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out of someone so boring. And you've certainly achieved that and I believe you have your mighty work with you now
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Can we perhaps take a closer look at the plasticine, gentlemen? God, she's big, mate
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She's big and heavy. She's really heavy. SHE LAUGHS What a fine conch she has Look at the size of that nose Well she has got quite a considerable conch And obviously if you doing a caricature that the sort of thing you rather tend to pick
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on, mainly. And it has to be said, Wilfred, to be fair, you are a satirist. I understand you've
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made puppets before for spitting image. This is your bread and butter, right? And this has
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certainly got the nation talking. What's the reaction been to your work
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Well, sometimes things go... I make things all the time, all sorts of characters and celebs
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and I paint just normal, ordinary people, so to speak. But sometimes things kind of take off a bit
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I did one of Liz Truss before I ended up on your channel
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So I think you're my biggest fan, so thanks very much. It's an absolute pleasure
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And it has to be said that your political barbs are apolitical
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You have a pop of people on the left and on the right. Everyone's fair again
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It's not singling out Rachel Reid in comparison. She just happens to be the latest choice as it were That right I mean it completely unfair She may be a very good Chancellor for all I know I purely picking on her because of her looks and boringness I wish it talked because then you could do an excellent imitation
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of her unbelievably dull delivery. But on that note, you sculpted it out of plasticine
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Is that right? It's made out of the kids' moulding products. How long did it take you and how much did it cost
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I mean, it's massive. it took about a morning and it cost about seven pounds 30 it's not it's not difficult and it's
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not expensive it's just heavy stuff but yeah it's children's material so anyone can use it and i
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highly recommend anyone having some fun with plasticine it's great stuff to use there have
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been some very um interesting comments about it on social media and again some of them have been a
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bit cutting but one comment here said that the plasticine chancer looks infinitely more useful
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than the real thing oh well that a bit harsh i mean i don it it a try i try to i tread a little bit of a fine line but i don want to be really horrible to people There even an ounce of affection in it in a way
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And I've got no idea if she's an effective Chancellor or not
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I think she's got an unbelievably difficult job. So I'll give her a lot of rope
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but this is really quite a mild little poke. And there have been some very complimentary comments as well
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Wilfred Wood, your work's been praised as magnificent brilliant and so good
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and most of all what people have said is that you know crikey the world is a depressing place
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often times at the moment this is a bit of fun isn't it well I hope so
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I mean I think that art the primary purpose of art is to be entertaining
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and if it isn't entertaining then it's really failed so yeah it's lovely
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when it gets a bit of a reaction and people are amused by what I do that's what I'm aiming for
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we've certainly got the nation talking and thank you very very much to come on GB News today
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An absolute pleasure to have your company, the maestro Wilfred Wood. Thanks for joining us on GB News
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Good fun, thanks. Absolute pleasure. Mine are you going to. Cheers
