A local UK politician resigned because he couldn't stand people spreading rumors that he's Banksy

• William Gannon, a local politician in southwest Wales, handed in his resignation on Monday.
• He said on Facebook that he was stepping down over "allegations" that he is the famed street artist Banksy.

A local UK politician resigned on Monday because he couldn't stand people spreading rumors that he is the street artist Banksy.

William Gannon, a council member of Pembroke Dock's Bufferland Ward in southwest Wales, announced on Facebook that he was stepping down because the "allegation" that he is Banksy were "undermining" his ability to work.

"As you may be aware an allegation has been repeatedly made that I am not who I say I am but that I am the artist Banksy. A number of people believe that this allegation is true," Gannon wrote in the post.

"This allegation is undermining my ability to do the work of Councillor and Council Rep properly," he added. "Therefore, I have decided to step down as both Town Councillor and Council Rep to The Port with immediate effect."

Banksy is a world-famous UK street artist whose identity remains unknown.

Gannon told The Sun on Monday that the rumors that he was the elusive artist began surfacing in June last year because he started doing some community street art in similar places where Banksy was painting his murals.

He told The Sun that he plans on continuing his artwork despite the end of his political career. He said he will also be handing out badges in his town which say: "I am NOT Banksy" in an effort to quash the rumors for good.

His town, Pembroke Dock, never had a Banksy artwork of its own. However, a mural did appear in 2018 in another Welsh town called Port Talbot, which is about 70 miles away, the BBC reported.