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Painted on the
side of a building in Bristol, southwest England - home of the
celebrated graffiti artist Banksy - the image reprises a 1979
photograph of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and East German
President Erich Honecker kissing, which was later turned into a
mural on the Berlin Wall.
It was commissioned by pro-EU campaign group "We are Europe" as
what they call a warning of things to come if Britons vote to
leave the 28-member bloc on June 23, as advocated by both
Johnson and Trump, the presumptive Republican candidate in
November's U.S. presidential election.
Johnson is the "Out" campaign's best-known leader and Trump has
said Britain would be "better off without" the EU, which he has
blamed for Europe's migration crisis.
The 15-foot (4.5 meter) mural is accompanied by the slogan "Not
#IN for this?" and a plea for people, especially the young, to
register to vote by a June 7 deadline.
"People need to look at this image and think - is this the
future I want," said Harriet Kingaby, a spokesperson from We Are
Europe.
Galvanizing the youth vote is a key issue for the "In" camp.
Surveys show young people are far more likely to be in favor of
remaining in the EU but also much less likely to bother to vote.
A survey of 2,000 students this month found that 63 percent did
not know the exact date of the referendum, while 54 percent were
not aware it was being held in June.
(Reporting by Stephen Addison; Editing by Gareth Jones)
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