It is now almost two years since the British National Party scraped over the 5 per cent hurdle and won a seat on the London Assembly, so this is an appropriate point to examine the BNP’s political record at City Hall.
Over that period, the role of the party’s London Assembly member, Richard Barnbrook, has been exactly what you would expect from a representative of the BNP. One of his first contributions to Mayor’s Question Time was to demand a ban on the Notting Hill Carnival. On whatever subject he has intervened at MQT, Barnbrook has invariably reduced the issue to the BNP’s obsession with race and immigration.
By way of variety, at last month’s MQT, he treated us to an exposition of his party’s line that human activity is not the primary cause of global warming – despite overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary. But then the BNP spent many years rejecting the equally incontrovertible evidence concerning the Nazi genocide against the Jews. From Holocaust denial, it has now moved on to climate change denial.
Eighteen months ago, I wrote that Barnbrook’s rambling and incoherent interventions at MQT had reduced him to an object of ridicule, which led to the first of three complaints by Barnbrook against me to the GLA Standards Committee. It was rejected, along with another complaint against my colleague John Biggs, who had referred to Barnbrook’s Nazi politics. The decision was reported by Searchlight under the heading “Rambling, incoherent and Nazi to boot”.
A central feature of Nick Griffin’s
re-branding of the BNP has been an attempt to publicly dissociate the BNP from its Nazi-sympathising past. This has been seriously undermined by the discovery that veteran
far-right activist Tess Culnane is working in Barnbrook’s office. Culnane was forced out of the BNP for several years because of her insistence on speaking at meetings of the British People’s Party, which advertises busts of Hitler on its website at £15 a pop.
As for Barnbrook, it would appear that Griffin has finally lost patience with him and he may well step down from the Assembly next month, to be replaced by Bob Bailey, currently BNP leader on Barking and Dagenham council. Unlike Barnbrook, Bailey does possess the ability to string two meaningful sentences together. But he suffers from a severe anger management problem and an inclination to shoot his mouth off – for example in his recent disgusting outburst against Nigerian churches at a council planning committee meeting.
Some people argue that it is a mistake to give publicity to the BNP. However, in my opinion, the more widely the party’s role on the London Assembly and borough councils is publicised, the better. Now we have to make sure that we throw the BNP out of its local government base in Barking and Dagenham on May 6 by showing voters what you really get when its members attain public office.
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Murad Quresh is a poisonous little man. The man claims to be a Muslim but has sat on his hands while Bliar and Brown dropped bombs on his co religionists. It is well known that he is hated within his own community and has received death threats. Why the Tribune gives space to this evil little man one can only wonder.
At least the leader of the BNP has the balls to sack those that are not up to BNP standards, unlike the clown brown who allows theives, crooks, and scamers to rob the taxpayers blind.
Get a life Murad Qureshi live with it, the BNP are gaining strengh daily so get used to it.!! If those labour voting idiots dont give a shag about the scum they vote for.
The majority of the British voter is like a box jellyfish, which has 24 eyes but no brain
It is far easier to push Bob Baileys button that then leads him into a tirade where he noticeably foams at the mouth.
Barnbrook on the other hand is a fool, but, a fool with charisma which can be dangerous at times.
What a load of bullshit and lies!
Why not be honest Murad, and admit that you hate the BNP, as is pretty obvious from your vile comments about an honest and decent man called Richard Barnbrook that you do. Any normal person reading this tripe will see you exactly for what you are – an arrogant journalist, safe in the knowledge that you can slander anyone without recourse. Did anyone ever tell you that pride comes before a fall?? There are far more mportant issues at stake in this country than what Richard Barnbrook has purportedly said at meetings. Why don’t you have the guts to report on the real issues that are happening all around you while Labour and Conservatives play push and shove? Why not report on the proposed Halal meat factory development in Wales which is seen as an insult to some Welsh people? Why not report on the scandal of Israel ‘buying’ political influence with the Conservatives? Why not report on the proposed mosque that is going to be built in Dudley, and the outrage it is causing? Let me see you reporting on these issues and then I might begin to believe you are a true journalist instead of being the low toned person who I think you are.
People like you just don’t get it, do you. You can bad-mouth The British National Party as much as you like, it’s what we’ve come to expect from these rubbish rags. The betrayed people of this country who are waking up to where tolerance with hordes of third-worlders pouring into our country has got them are now saying ENOUGH IS ENOUGH – SHUT THE BLOODY DOOR and start tipping out the few million that have no right to be here!
We want OUR country back!! No Mosques, No Halal slaughter – disgusting! No Islamic Centres. No Islamic Villages. No Islamic Libraries. No Indian Temples. GET IT!!
http://www.richardbarnbrook.com/2010/04/murad-the-mud-slinger-why-chucking-cheap-insults-really-doesn%E2%80%99t-do/
Seems Mr Barnbrook has your number ( an old English idiom of which you will not be aware not being ethnically English)
The prescription we have today in government is top down, bureaucratic, pseudo managerial, pseudo technocratic, elitist, middle class and authoritarian. They believe that the people should be treated kindly, but are fit only to be run by competent experts, ie themselves. The political classes are having great difficulty in realising that this model, with its attendant state control, suppression of individual rights and radical social engineering has failed through its own inefficiencies, lack of demographic representation and through technological advances in communication: with the internet everything comes under intense worldwide scrutiny.
In reaction to the outcomes of this model, the BNP has been turned from a party of no account to a party with significant local and European representation. To counter this, the unions need to take control of the Labour Party and implement a bottom up concept of socialism, with an ethos of concern for the family, mutuality, toleration and respect for creed and conscience; and the self appointed intelligentsia, who have done so much damage, should be put to the sword.