Barbour with BNP leader Nick Griffin
Alistair Barbour, the BNP’s candidate for Carlisle, has quit the party after becoming disillusioned.
Barbour was on the BNP’s leading lights in Cumbria but yesterday he astonishingly quit saying he is ’sick of defending them.’
Speaking to local journalists in Cumbria Barbour said: “I joined the BNP two years ago and was perhaps a little bit naive.
“I don’t agree with everything they stand for and I’m sick of defending them.”
Cumbrian local media say that Barbour, a gas fitter, stood for the BNP in the Penrith West by-election on Eden Council in October and in Currock, Carlisle, at the county council elections in June.
Barbour has also been a candidate at Carlisle City Council elections in Castle and Upperby. He says he is not a racist and that he disagrees with some BNP policies.
For example, he believes the party was wrong to bar non-whites from joining.
“We are where we are in 21st century Britain,” he said.“You can’t turn the clock back. You need to make the best of what you’ve got.
“The BNP should take a long, hard look at themselves and how people see them.
“I realise now that you don’t have to belong to a party. You can have your own thoughts.”
Tags: Alistair Barbour
“I realise now that you don’t have to belong to a party. You can have your own thoughts.”
Then Alistair Barbour is even more naive than he gives himself credit for. Joining any political party does no automatically debar you from thinking for yourself. Even NuLab politicians can, perhaps, think for themselves occasionally, but most are too snout deep in the hog-trough to air their thoughts which may err from the established party line.
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Non whites will be able to join, so…
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… how many members do the main parties lose?
This is yet another example of spurious reporting.
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Yes I have my own independent thoughts too.
Most parties have various wings in them especially if they get to any size as will the BNP.
But maybe UKIP is more his thing?
I think the Labour party have had a few defections of late, what would be news is somebody joining them!
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Ahh Cumbria, he was disappointed that Nick can’t walk on water!
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You mean Nick Griffin isn’t a ‘Cnut’ after all?
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Ah rumours can get started then
Is this the first sign of cracks in the party?
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As a friend of Mr.Barbour I have to alert people to his disturbed frame of mind. In recent conversations Mr.Barbour has made it plain that he intends to walk into the local bobby’s and ask for Mr.Edward Heath to be arrested as a Traitor. I feel that the pressure of being an Organiser and activist have pushed Mr.Barbour to the point of Mental Breakdown. He has been suffering from depression for some time and has recently been quoting Mr.David Ickes conspiracy theories for all manner of topics. It seems that his Epiphany and the increasingly bizarre statements were just too much for the Party. It was considered too much for him to continue to represent a serious legitimate party and the likelihood for ridicule would have seriously comprimised both Mr.Barbour and the Party as a whole. Mr.Barbour was a stalwart for the Party but they are not Doctors and could not continue to support Mr.Barbours conspiratorial ideas bordering on total fantasy. I am assuming that only he knows why he has chosen to stand as an Independent and as he quite rightly points out “we can have our own thoughts” but lets have those thoughts reflecting the real world eh? I would say watch this space with interest and bewilderment as the conspiracy theories fly!
I just hope that the ridicule he receives does not tip him over the edge of sanity.
Keith
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Oh man you gotta love it, someone leaves and they send someone else around to rubish the man with daft claims, and how many people do you think are going to fall for that pile of tripe.
Way to make you and the BNP look stupid, you’d have been better off saying nothing at all, it would have then looked better if he did do as you are claiming he is going to do, you’d actually have a story then, this way if he doesn’t do what you are claiming he is going to do you are going to look deeply stupid.
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A BNP member resigns – Big deal!
Not as if he was caught viewing child porn like the conservatives seem to do quite regularly!
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Just to point out another floor in your statement, you claim that he is the one going to visit the Police to claim Ted Heath is a trator yet it is you that uses the name to make the post, not a very clever move (doesn’t instill one with confidence in the claim), and as for consiracy thories the BNP are full of then, Climate Change Hoax (Conspiracy) New World Order (Conspiracy) New World Government (Conspiracy) all spoted by the BNP.
So maybe he is actually so fed up of the internal consiracy theories that he wants to get back to normal and leave behing the BNP Indoctunation to stand as a legitimate candidate?
I love it when the BNP get desperate enough to have to put out this kind of tripe in some pathetic attempt to rubbish the man who has frankly in my mind seen the light and walked away from the pathetic conspiracy theorists within the BNP.
Good man I say, he’s woken up and opened his eyes to reality.
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I enjoy a good conspiracy theory, so do others it seems, no wonder the X-Files was popular!
It’ll be interesting to see how far he gets as an independent.
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I wouldn’t suggest very far Independents never do that well in General Elections, they can sometimes get there in By-Elections close to GE’s but rarely in GE’s I think Mr White suit was the last to achieve it.
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Whenever a BNP member resigns we get the same stories -
He’s not been well ; under pressure ; was never an active member anyway ; he was disappointed at failing to be chosen as a Euro candidate/ PPC/ Griffin’s bag carrier etc etc
Or, of course, “he was a plant by MI5, Unite Against Fascism, the Commies, Gordon Brown” etc etc etc
Par for the course.
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Well let’s just think about the stories when Lib/Lab/Con resign!
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I think their favourite excuse is “I wish to spend more time with my family” which is code for “I intend to go off & make a shed load of money out of my contacts before they go cold as I have been rumbled as a fraud & can’t be an MP anymore”.
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But far better than calling the ex members mad and off their rocker though !!!
The voting public will piss themselves laughing reading this, it’s stories or excuses like this that will make people realise thet the BNP has no clue about anything really, not even how to coverup someone leaving.
I remember they did the same back in I think 2007 when 3 people left they accussed them of stealing info and called in the police rather than being sensible and letting them go quietly will as little fuss as possible.
They should have done the same here, not let the above nut job put that story out, that just attracts more interest to the one who has left the party and makes the BNP look foolish really.
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another ga-ga bnp member…ya dancer,,,maybe the bnp could remake One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
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The lunatics have taken over the party
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They have indeed Sam – that’s why we need the BNP.Does this mean you’ve changed your mind?
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You have proved you really are insane!
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He’s not an Independent! He’s running with me!
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Elvis has left the planet…
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sam pauli a.k.a Alister Cooling the kiddy fiddler is back! he must have had an internet connection and computer installed in his prison cell! ha ha ha hee hee!
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Ted is a traitor says:As a friend of Mr.Barbour I have to alert people to his disturbed frame of mind.
Vor says: No shit Sherlock … he stood as a candidate for the BNP!! His state of mind must have been disturbed from the start.
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Elvis i love you…. Every year on your birthday i eat peanut butter and banana sandwiches and watch your comeback concert (im not even joking)
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Sam Green youre fascination with kiddie porn is a bit extreme,are you hiding a dirty little secret?
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Sam Green
Sam Pauli might be a communist,republican,drunkard,anti English,Trotskyite etc… but to label him a paedophile, repeatedly, is below the belt and has no place on even this site.
Either shut up or piss off.
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Cheers AA i know we dont see eye to eye ,but Sham Green is just being a nasty little prick ,cheers sport.
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no worries Sam
started watching 5 part history of Scotland (Pictland) tonight. You cant just blame the saxons; i reackon the Vikings were much more brutal
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Maybe so Al, but they had funky hats and like to get pissed.
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sam pauli exposed as the pervert cooling continues to post on here! HAS HE NO SHAME
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sam green
you are an a-grade moron. Why dont you take your juvenile taunts and fuck off. This is a site for discussing immigration policy etc…
Skydog, the saxons used to like a tipple too, and we still do.
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What makes you think that you are a Saxon? Most in England are descended from Britons conquered by Saxons, Angles etc.
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Oh I’m quite moved… good on ya AA you’re a top bloke. I know we have the odd dig at each other in good humor . But this sam green is a Dick of Griffinesque proportions . I’ve been reading some of the statements from lee (the legal advisor) pmsl. Jeez You guys have to stand up and rid this party of the nutters who are at the helm … id pay attention if aa or acorn or mlj and skydog were in positions of influence in the bnp…. instead of the goon show it is at the moment
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acorn, you are correct, but it sounds ideal and romantic. I’m probably a mix of briton,roman,jute,angle,saxon,dane,norman and scot. I think my paternal great,great grandmother was jewish. That fact doesn’t prevent me from having nothing but disdain for Israel though.
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I am glad you have kept away from the ‘roos!
Hapiological studies show that in England, most country people are descended from the people who lived there 2,000 years ago. On the programme Time Team a few years ago, they managed to get DNA from the remains of a Bronze Age skeleton in the Cheddar Gorge. They then ran a comparison with the locals and found that they were related.
There are more Jews waking up to the REAL Israel and turning their backs on it.
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there are more people ready to join the party (bnp) than leave including indians and sikhs watch and learn watch and learn watch and learn
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well said Dan,its very true mate
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no it isnt it a bnp myth
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