Well, that’s quite the headline isn’t it? But it is something that’s actually going on in the Worcestershire village known as Bell End.

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The anonymous organiser decided to erect the statue in honour of Putin being the ‘Bellend Of The Year’ and then left a bucket of eggs in front of it so that the locals could throw them at it. Here’s what he had to say about his art installation:

I needed to award somebody with the Bellend of the Year award and I thought there was one person who has universally been a bellend this year – and that’s Vladimir Putin.

You could just throw eggs at the statue, which people did so willingly and quite happily.

It’s been very well received. One person said, “I thought it was my boss for a second”.

I’ve seen over the course of the year the devastation that has happened in Ukraine and that so many lives that have been displaced as a result of the war,’ they said.

So I thought, “I really want to help out and I want to do my bit and I want to try and raise some money to help those individuals”.

I don’t know what the material is but I gave to a couple of artists and they cut it out over two or three weeks.

Then we painted it and made a plinth, which obviously had the sign Bellend of the Year just to make sure there was absolutely no way to deny what he actually was.

The message is pretty simple – it’s exactly what it says on the tin.

Gotta say that’s pretty funny actually. Not exactly sure how this guy is going to make money off the statue, but I suppose just getting out there is a start.

Fair play to him and hopefully ‘Bellend Of The Year’ becomes an annual award because it’s definitely a lot of fun. Would love to get down there and throw some eggs at him.

For more of the same, remember when the residents of Bell End wanted to change its name because people were calling them the Bellenders? How times have changed.