BNP Assembly Member Richard Barnbrook faces a 6 month ban
Richard Barnbrook faces 6 month ban for lying
Today the BNP’s Richard Barnbrook, Barking and Dagenham, is facing a six month ban for making up murder statistics.
After the BNP London Assembly Member made his claims through YouTube, the Metropolitan Police had discovered that there was no basis of truth as “there had been no murders or serious incidents in the time period cited”.
An independent investigation found that Barnbrook’s comments on YouTube about non-existent murders had showed “wilful disregard for the truth”.
Barnbrook’s disciplinary hearing was scheduled for July but was delayed when he claimed stress-related illness and was signed off work for two weeks.
We believe that Barnbrook’s case is a classic example of how the BNP will often lie and exploit the genuine fears of residents living in troubled areas for political gain. We think that the BNP would best serve the communities they represent if they were to actively promote social cohesion instead of division and fear.
“BNP politician Richard Barnbrook faces ban after ‘making up murders’” – The Times
BNP Midlands leader spoke at Neo-Nazi rally
On 12th September 2009, Mike Bell, secretary of the BNP’s West Midlands region, attended the Fest der Völker (Festival of Nations) in Pössneck, Germany, with three other BNPactivists. They included Dave and Nina Brown from Nottinghamshire, who were taking time out from campaigning for a Broxtowe District Council by-election on 24 September, where Dave Brown was the BNP candidate.Leading neo-Nazis from across Europe spoke alongside BNP activists Bell and Brown at the racist rally. They included violent neo-Nazis from Sweden’s National Socialist Front, Germany’s National Democratic Party, Hungary’s Jobbik and other nationalist hot spots in Austria, Bulgaria, Switzerland and the Czech Republic.
Despite Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons ( a former and dedicated member of Britain’s National Socialist Movement)claiming to the likes of Andrew Marr and Adam Boulton that their admiration for Adolf Hitler and Nazis are behind them, the BNPstill contain members such as Bell and Brown who continue to fraternize with neo-Nazis, Holocaust deniers and other violent extremists.
Midlands BNP officer speaks at German neo-Nazi rally – Lancaster Unity
Serbian Gay Pride event cancelled after neo-Nazi threats
A Serbian church defaced by Serbian neo-Nazis
A Serbian Gay Pride event was called off after violent threats were made against participants.
Members of of the violent ultra-nationalist groups 1389 (named for the year when Serbia lost to the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Kosovo) and Obraz (the Serbian word for face) had been ratcheting up the temperature prior to the event by briefing the media.
Mladen Obradovic, a leader of Obraz, said: “Everyone knows what will happen if they go ahead with that parade of shame, and the responsibility for that will be of those who organized it. They cannot expect to poke their finger in the eye of our nation and go unpunished.”
There are no known links between the BNPand Obraz and 1389. However, this is an example of the effects that racist and intolerantorganisations can have once they have managed to worm their way into the fabric of society. With the incremental rise of the BNP, we have to ask ourselves if this sort of nasty behaviour is what we want for Britain (a country where we take extreme pride in the values of fairness, tolerance and respect for one another).
